Do You Really Need a Wedding Planner Book?

When Jen and I were initially trying to plan our wedding, we thought we could handle the whole things ourselves, but as we started looking at wedding plans, we soon realised that it was going to be more difficult that we originally thought.

There are just so many things involved with planning a wedding that we hadn’t considered. Things like:

• Venues and available dates
• Wedding announcements
• Wedding theme
• Whether to get married by a priest or marriage celebrant
• Budgets (this is a big one)
• Choosing best man and bridesmaids
• Flowers
• Wedding photographer
• Limousine  hire – most brides want to arrive to their wedding in style
• Number of wedding guests (can be hard determining the optimal number)
• Reception venue
• Reception dinner, drinks and entertainment.
• Seating arrangements.

and the list seemed to go on and on.  Clearly planning a wedding wasn’t quite as straight forward as we imagined.

At that point it seemed clear that we needed some type of wedding planning guide to ensure that we were going to manage to organise everything smoothly as possible.

We checked out a few of the wedding checklists and wedding organizers that we found and while they offered some help, they were all a bit light on in detail and didn’t cover all aspects of a wedding.

That’s when we decided to look around for some wedding planner books to see if they were much better.  Luckily we found one particular wedding planner book that we thought was great and it really helped us big time.