My current obsession is not so much wedding planning (even though we have our venue picked out already), but creating and re-creating my wedding planning binder. I am an organizing freak, often too much so with so many things filed in so many places that I confuse myself. I initially went to Barnes and Noble and bought myself a nice little wedding binder that claimed to come with everything I needed, was a pretty color, and seemed like a good fit.
Looking back, I may have wanted to wait a bit longer to buy it than a week after getting engaged, with a wedding 2+ years away. I realized a few things:
1. A 9x9" shaped binder, while still being 3-hole punched, does not accommodate most of what I needed to put in it.
2. Directions and advice can be nice, but I use the internet for that. I need more space to write things, not read them... and that was what composed much of the book.
3. You don't realize what you need in a planning book until you start actually planning. Go figure.
4. I should have made my own binder.
Not to mention the fact that I needed a whole separate "inspiration book" to put pretty pictures of dresses, centerpieces, etc from magazines. I hated that I couldn't just put everything in one big book!
So there you have it. I went to CVS and got me a nice big binder, some dividers, and a ruler. And then I realized, hey, I need more dividers! And colors! And sticky tabs! And pocket sleeves! Woohoo!
I may seem to be going a little crazy, but I figure that this binder will basically be my bible for the next two years. All my ideas, contracts, lists, etc, will be going in this beautiful piece of organizational heaven. The following pictures aren't too crazy since I'm at work and trying to keep my wedding sprawl contained ever so slightly. And I still need to design a cover!
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