Review & Giveaway: The Bride's Year Ahead

I got the opportunity to review The Bride's Year Ahead: The Ultimate Month-by-Month Wedding Planner by Marguerite Stolen and Claudia Gryvatz Copquin.  This is actually the updated second edition of the planner.

This planner encompasses the 12 months up until your wedding.  It's unique in that it provides just as much information to the bride as it does places to write your information.  Every month, it also gives you a small calendar to write information in and a folder to put important documents.

There are plenty of worksheets in the planner to document important information, compare vendors, and help you create lists that will help keep your organized.

The organization of some of the information is a little weird to me.  They book has you planning your invitations 11 months out from the wedding, when you could realistically do that closer to the wedding and book more important vendors further out.  If there is a section that you don't plan on doing until closer to the wedding though, you could skip over that month and come back to it at another time.

One thing I loved about the planner is its flower section.  They give you the information about what colors popular flowers come in, what months they are available and the price range.  They also have pictures of all the most popular flowers.  This is great if you don't know much about flowers

The planner gives room for listing up to 180 guests, which is way more than most planners offer.  It allows you to list the important information (name, relationship with couple, and contact information) as well as what events they will be attending (from engagement party to open house).  It also has an area closer to the back of the book where you can create your seating chart.

All in all, it seems like a great wedding planner and would be very helpful in helping keep your organized.

*Giveaway*

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Write by: AN - Tuesday, November 1, 2011