The Brides Essential Wedding Planner [Deluxe Edition] [Ring-bound]

Amy Nebens (Author), Greg Stadler (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005

A Wedding planner which includes checklists, prepared interviews for finding providers, advice at a glance, worksheets to record offerings and costs of vendors, money saving and other hints, 16 month fill-in calendar, sleeves for business cards, pockets on all tab dividers, and more.

Product Details

• Ring-bound: 328 pages
• Publisher: Barnes and Noble Publishing, Inc. (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0760773866
• ISBN-13: 978-0760773864
• Product Dimensions: 11.9 x 10.8 x 2.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #20,048 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #23 in Books > Crafts, Hobbies & Home > Weddings > Planning

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Planned my wedding using this planner, June 19, 2008

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Kathy Country "Country Wife" (White Sulphur Springs, Montana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Brides Essential Wedding Planner (Ring-bound)

I looked through all the books on the shelves at Barnes and Nobles and other bookstores before using this planner for my May 2007 wedding. I read this planner from cover to cover, and found it had the most useful information I needed, and because it was in a binder I could easily add pages of information I had printed off the internet. The binder also makes it easy to remove pages that as an individual you may not need.

I found my wedding planning to be really easy with all the timetable and guidlines this planner had to offer, and my guests and vendors were all impressed with how on top of things I was.

I would HIGHLY recommend this planner to any bride planning her wedding on her own, or with the help of a wedding planner. I had a $20,000 wedding with 200 guests, worked full time until two weeks before the big day, had no wedding planner, my bridal party and family lived 1,000 miles aways and could not help me, I lived 100 miles from my wedding location, and I had eight months to pull it off. Yet I pulled off a great wedding using this planner and have had people recommend a new career.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most functional, no fluffy stuff planner, January 10, 2008

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New At This Planning Thing (Atlanta, GA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Brides Essential Wedding Planner (Ring-bound)

I'm surprised to see that nobody else has recommended this planner yet! Before selecting this one I looked at the various other planners on Amazon and read their reviews. Since this one didn't even rank because nobody had reviewed it yet, I didn't even consider it until I ran across it at the bookstore.

The first reason I picked it up was because it is ring-bound and full letter size, meaning I could add pages for notes and contracts easily (otherwise I might have picked the Simple Stunning planner due its high review average). The binder isn't the highest quality (kind of like an economy hardback book), but at least it isn't bubble gum pink or plastered with cheesy pictures. I'm thinking I will eventually transfer the contents to a regular binder. To me, this isn't a big deal.

This planner is published by the same people as The Bride's Book of Lists, which also has a high review average. In fact, it looks like the lists and tables from that book just migrated to the new binder format. The tables are really helpful because they are a list of interview questions for the various kinds of vendors. Several columns to the right of the questions let you do a side-by-side comparison of all the responses. This is a feature that I didn't see in any of the planners that I looked through. Other planners only had space for the final selections and didn't act as a workbook to help me figure out which vendor to pick.

There are no photographs and relatively few illustrations. I like this because I plan to buy other books and materials for ideas and don't need my planner for that purpose. Really, I love it that this one cut out all the frou-frou stuff and gets right down to the nuts and bolts of planning. It does have a few examples, suggestions and tips, but overall it's primarily a workbook.

Other planners have plastic pockets/sleaves for keeping clippings, samples and contracts, which is great. This one does have pockets in the dividers, but they are cardstock weight paper. Again, I'll probably just add my own plastic sleaves as needed.

Since I've only just begun to plan, I don't know how comprehensive the lists or questions will be, but they look good so far.

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'll be your righthand "man", April 22, 2006

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Lauren Moynihan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Bride's Essential Wedding Planner (From "Yes" to "I Do" and Beyond) (Spiral-bound)

This book is amazing. A real life saver! I am the maid of honor and live two states away from the bride. In order to keep us both on the same page, I bought one for her and one for myself. It held our hand every step of the way! I especially loved the budget info, recommended questions to ask and tips on proper etiquette.