Best Way to organize a wedding binder?

I have a binder with dividers and lots of clear plastic inserts.

In the front I have a checklist

my tabs are:

Venue

DJ

Songs

Photographer

Officiant

License

Guests

Bridesmaids

Colors

Florist

Honeymoon

Centerpieces

Favors

Cakes

Invitations

Then whenever I see a picture in a magazine or whatever I just stick it in the clear plastic insert.

To print your guest list from here with the addresses go to:

Guest list

Reports

Guests for Ceremony -- Custom

then choose the fields that you want to be on the report

Export to Excel, then print

My tabs are almost identical to JCC to JCB with a copy of a contract at the very front of each section and receipts following

Tabs, and clear inserts. Same advice as above. I have my contract in the front section of each and then others with misc info and receipts. My "cake" section has a sketch of our cake from my baker!

DOC

Venue

DJ

Songs

Photographer

Officiant

License

Florist

Wedding Cake

Groom's Cake

STD

Wedding Invitations

Rehearsal dinner

Engagement photos

Rentals

Postage

Wedding Dress

Groom's attire

Accessories

In my binder I have:

Calendar

Stationary (Invitations, STD, guest list)

Apparel (Bride, Groom, and Bridal Party)

Venue (Contracts, notes, etc.)

Vendors (DJ, Videographer, Photographer)

Design (Centerpieces, flowers, decor, etc.)

Logisitics (Wedding day timeline)

Misc. (Anything else that doesn't fit in the above )

Call me clueless, but what are you using your wedding binders for? To give to a coordinator? Most of my contracts are digital, as well as quotes and photo ideas. Is this something I need to be making? Lol.

I have divided tabs with pockets. I can't remember my order but I have tabs for: guest list, wedding party(contact info, outfits and gifts), time line, day of timeline, budget, vendors, venue diagram for tables. Lol plus I am going to keep my receipts in a pouch.

714, I like to have everything in the binder so that I can look through it and take it with me to vendor meetings, etc. It also helps me to remember things that I need to do. If all of that is on the computer it is easy to forget to look at my list...but when my binder is sitting on my coffee table staring at me, it is less likely that I will forget.

You definitely don't NEED a binder if you don't want one! It is all in how you like to organize.

I started to use a binder, but then felt that all the business cards/flyers/etc. would keep falling out of the plastic sheet protectors. I purchased an accordion folder and labeled the tabs in a similar way I've already seen listed. The pockets are also large enough to fit full sized folders of information I have received from vendors. Like others have said, it's all in how you like to organize!