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There are two main things that you will need to put in your “Wedding
Planning” notebook: receipts and general information. If you keep track of these
two simple things, your wedding planning will go a lot smoother.
Receipts
The best way to make sure you are staying within your budget is to check your
receipts against your original amount in your budget. If you go over on
something, plan on spending that much less on something else. If you spend less
than planned, feel free to use that money for something else (hint: pampering…).
Make sure you reconcile your budget after every purchase to make certain that
you don’t go over budget. You should keep all of your receipt in one place so
that you can refer back to them if you have questions about what you got or what
the price was.
Information
In the beginning of your planning, you will be gathering a lot of different
information about vendors in order to pick the one that would be best for you.
You do not necessarily need to keep the information on un-chosen vendors;
however, it is critical that you keep information about the vendors that you do
choose. Make sure you keep brochures, contracts, and everything in between so
that whenever you have a question, you will have the answer at your fingertips.
You should have separate folders or binder sections for each vendor so that the
contracts and such do not get lost between other papers. Also, if you keep all
of the contracts and receipts you will be able to know what you owe without
having to make an extra phone call to the vendor.
Once the wedding is over you can choose to just throw away the information, or
maybe you can use it for a friend who is getting married and needs advice on
vendors. Some people like to keep the brochures to put in a wedding scrap book.
No matter what you do after the wedding, just make sure you keep track of
everything before the wedding. It’s no fun going through a huge stack of
receipts after the honeymoon to see how much over (or under) budget you went.
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There are two main things that you will need to put in your “Wedding
Planning” notebook: receipts and general information. If you keep track of these
two simple things, your wedding planning will go a lot smoother.
Receipts
The best way to make sure you are staying within your budget is to check your
receipts against your original amount in your budget. If you go over on
something, plan on spending that much less on something else. If you spend less
than planned, feel free to use that money for something else (hint: pampering…).
Make sure you reconcile your budget after every purchase to make certain that
you don’t go over budget. You should keep all of your receipt in one place so
that you can refer back to them if you have questions about what you got or what
the price was.
Information
In the beginning of your planning, you will be gathering a lot of different
information about vendors in order to pick the one that would be best for you.
You do not necessarily need to keep the information on un-chosen vendors;
however, it is critical that you keep information about the vendors that you do
choose. Make sure you keep brochures, contracts, and everything in between so
that whenever you have a question, you will have the answer at your fingertips.
You should have separate folders or binder sections for each vendor so that the
contracts and such do not get lost between other papers. Also, if you keep all
of the contracts and receipts you will be able to know what you owe without
having to make an extra phone call to the vendor.
Once the wedding is over you can choose to just throw away the information, or
maybe you can use it for a friend who is getting married and needs advice on
vendors. Some people like to keep the brochures to put in a wedding scrap book.
No matter what you do after the wedding, just make sure you keep track of
everything before the wedding. It’s no fun going through a huge stack of
receipts after the honeymoon to see how much over (or under) budget you went.
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