How are you staying organized?

Yeah, my notebook is basically a central place for brainstorming, and then I make my to-do list and board from those notes.

We have a wedding notebook (that we almost lost a couple of weeks ago, oops!) and a ton of Google Docs/Sheets.

That's awesome! Sounds like you have a really good system!

Oh! I love the idea of a mini-to-do list for the FH! That would help my finance so much!

Oh no! At least it was an "almost" and not "actual" loss!!!

It was a tense like, 10 minutes when we realized it was gone. We'd brought it with us to the bakery to discuss cakes and then since it was nice out walked around town for awhile and sat down to eat the snacks we got from the bakery (how can you not go to bakery and also get something?) then just left it on the bench when we got up. Realized it was missing when we got home. FH ran back to town and fortunately it was still there on the bench. I wasn't even worried about someone stealing like, personal info but there's just so much planning stuff in there it would have been such a set back to have to try to remember everything.

Ahhhh! I would have cried. I am so glad it was still there!!!

I have an excel doc! Have 2 sections for guests (guests that I'm inviting and the guests FH is inviting) that outline their name, how many people, address, etc. Then we have a section for food so we can keep track of what we are going to ROUGHLY pay if everyone RSVP'd yes. Then we have a section for the bar so that we can do some calculations to see how much alcohol we'll need / what a rough cost will be. Last, but not least, we have a section for our budget vs what we're actually spending/anticipating on spending. I've tracked everything down to the last penny which may be obsessive but oh well haha.

This is such a great idea! I wish I had seen this months ago!!

And I did it and almost everything is still in the left column lol

I have an online planner, a paper planner, & lots of post-it's lol. Luckily at my job I do a lot of coordination so I can usually remember things in my head. Def still have to write everything down on my online planner though. There's soo much to remember lol.

I made a binder where I keep all the information for our wedding. I divided everything into sections using divider tabs. For our guest list, I created an excel spreadsheet with our guests name, address and plus ones (if any).

That's awesome! I've never been good at spreadsheets, but it sounds like you are on top of it!! I'm also tracking every cent we spend, so I completely understand!!

I totally understand that!! I only have the big stuff on mine right now, I haven't had a chance to sit down and really think through all the little details, so I'm sure my to-do list will double at some point!

Yes! I have one closet that has become the wedding closet where I've been putting anything and everything wedding related. I have two cats that are constantly getting into stuff, so I have to keep everything behind a closed door if I don't want it ruined!

Definitely! I'm a pretty task-oriented person ordinarily, but I definitely could not keep track of stuff if I didn't write it down. Especially when I get random thoughts popping into my head like in the middle of work. I know I won't remember when I get home if I don't write it on a sticky-note and shove it into my purse for later!

That sounds like a good system!!

EXCEL is my go to. Everything is in one place from Invitation list, picture board, State Marriage License information, to Honeymoon itinerary. It has been a life saver