What do you all use to write down your ideas and plans?

jamtart6

As the title says really! Not sure whether to go for a book or a file!

Have you turned it into a keepsake?

If you saw a reasonably priced decorated/crafted notebook at a wedding fayre which could be kept as a pretty keepsake after the wedding, would you buy it? Whats an ideal price? £10?

I'm asking these questions from a personal and professional corner - I need a wedding planner and if I wasnt crafty, I'd love to have something personal to keep and would probably spend £10 on it. Luckily I am crafty so will be making one for myself just not sure whether to alter a book or a file and wondering if there is a niche in the market or another unecessary wedding expense!:D

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We have somewhere between three and seventeen lists/jotters/organisers/etc in various parts of the house. A lot of them carry pretty much the same information, we just like writing lists.

If you were actually going to go out of your way to use something specific - a one and only keepsake - and you were planning on spending a tenner, you could do worse than buying a moleskine or something like this

nic2075

Mines all written in a hardback note book I got from Asda for £1.25
I never thought of making it into a keepsake, thats a great idea. What about having 2 books one for simple lists that can be rewritten, and then make a scrapbook that you can transfer the better written lists (im a messy writer lol) that way you can stick in things and ideas you come accross throughout your planning.

SkyKitty

To be honest, I mostly used whatever was to hand at the time.....

sarah_elton

I'm so glad you asked!!

One of our friends got us this as an engagement present:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1845972848/ref=s9_sima_gw_s0_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=1ZNVSG0025ZA8DRXWGH8&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294

It's brilliant! Hardback, spiral bound. There are dividers splitting it into four sections - Inspiration, Planning, Guests and the Big Day.

Inspiration is for writing all your ideas about things in. There's pages for everything.

Planning has a budget page and places to write details of all the final decisions. You can write in the venues you visit and what you think of each for instance. Also has some pages to draw table plans on and write other notes.

Guests is like an address book. Pages of little address book type forms with Name, Address, Phone, RSVP response, dietary requirements, gift, etc.

The Big Day has a bit about planning who's doing what on the day itself, then pages to stick keepsakes like menus or particular cards you want to keep...

Each divider has a pocket on the back so you can slip in leaflets, pics from magazines, etc.

I love it, and it will make a really nice keepsake.

jamtart6

Thanks for all the replies. I'm wondering if a handcrafted one would work anyway as a present for engaged couples (sarah_elton you gave me the idea there!). Do you think £10 is too steep? Sorry for the poor quality picture and size but this is my Christmas one that I made think it could be quite easy to do a wedding one similar.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_XYv9m-BgMaw/StM6dO-2rfI/AAAAAAAAAcU/l2rekbGuM8U/s1600-h/121020091185.jpg

rachfriar78

Nah I'm absolutely crap, I just use scraps of paper that end up been chucked in the drawer lol x

Mme.Hibou

rachfriar78 wrote: »

Nah I'm absolutely crap, I just use scraps of paper that end up been chucked in the drawer lol x

But if you were given a specific book for all things wedding, would you use it?

kayleigh_b69

I have a Me to You wedding planner which i bought for £12, here is the link

http://www.plushpaws.co.uk/me-to-you/me-to-you-wedding-planner.html

This is what i am using as my keepsake as it has all different kinds of details in like where we met when we met when we got engaged and so on.

I also have a A4 file which i store all my documents and ideas in - this is more for the everyday use.

SDH

I use a comination of Excel spreadsheet (with lots different tabs for budget, invite list, song list, "to do" list etc etc) and IE favourites folders (for saving websites that have good ideas / pictures etc). Very MSE :-)

cleomolly

rachfriar78 wrote: »

Nah I'm absolutely crap, I just use scraps of paper that end up been chucked in the drawer lol x

me too, every coloured post it note you could imagine is stuffed into one file and to be honest every time i open it i shreek and think to myself why didnt i get more organised! I'm usually the most organised person I know, but when it comes to my own wedding, nahhh :rolleyes: