Eng­lish Wed­ding has proudly teamed up with The Wed­ding Genie to bring you some really prac­ti­cal and help­ful wed­ding plan­ning tools. I’ve been look­ing for some­thing along these lines to rec­om­mend for a lit­tle while now, and when pro wed­ding plan­ner Julie Daw­son told me about The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard Plan­ning Tools I knew I’d found the per­fect solu­tion to share with you on Eng­lish Wed­ding blog. Over to Julie…

Plan your wed­ding like a professional!

I love plan­ning wed­dings and one of the first things I learned when I started was that being organ­ised is most def­i­nitely the key to success.

Many brides have asked me what is the best way to keep on top of all the infor­ma­tion you accu­mu­late and how to appor­tion your bud­get to the var­i­ous areas of the wedding.

The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard Plan­ning Tools.

To help my brides I have designed a pack­age of wed­ding plan­ning tools called The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard that are easy to use and enable you to plan and stick to your bud­get as well as keep all your wed­ding details in one place. They are very afford­able too!

Plan­ning your wed­ding budget

Bud­get may not seem a very roman­tic sub­ject but it is some­thing that must be addressed right at the begin­ning of your plan­ning. You can’t book a venue or invite guests if you don’t know how much you have to spend.

There is also research to show that brides who don’t plan a bud­get now spend between 25% and 50% more than they wanted to. No one wants to wake up the day after the wed­ding with a huge credit card bill. That is def­i­nitely not the way to start mar­ried life.

The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard Tools

The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard Tools are designed to help you set your bud­get and make you aware when you go over it! It’s your money and you can spend it how you like. The wiz­ard cal­cu­la­tor will sug­gest to you how much to spend in each area. Of course then you can move the money around and spend it on the areas that are impor­tant to you. My hints and tips are included to help give you inspi­ra­tion and guide you.

A word of warn­ing: most brides I speak to say they have the bud­get in their head and know what they are spend­ing. I can tell you unless you write it down and see it in black and white your wed­ding bud­get will def­i­nitely spi­ral out of con­trol. See­ing the fig­ures and totals will focus your atten­tion. It always adds up to less in your head than it does in your spreadsheet!

One click of a but­ton and you can see exactly what you have spent, what is left to spend and what you have left to pay. Also if you go over bud­get the fig­ures will be in red to alert you right away.

Being an organ­ised bride and groom

The sec­ond thing after your bud­get is to stay organ­ised. Wed­ding plan­ners love mak­ing lists and keep­ing all their notes and infor­ma­tion in one place. You can use The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard to do exactly that.

Enter all your sup­plier details so you can have them at hand right when you want them. You won’t have to think, where did I put that num­ber? What is the address to the pho­tog­ra­phers? How much deposit did I pay? When do I have to pay the bal­ance? When is my next wed­ding dress fit­ting? All these things can be entered into the rel­e­vant page. You will be the most organ­ised bride you know!

Keep­ing on top of every­thing is key to enjoy­ing your plan­ning and hav­ing fun with it. The Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard is one place where you can find everything.

The Wed­ding Genie Guest Manager

The other key area to think about is your guest list and table plan. The Wed­ding Genie Guest Man­ager will let you enter all your guest infor­ma­tion along with their details, dietary require­ments and when they have RSVP’d. It will add up your guest num­bers as you go along and what’s more you can send it to the sta­tioner if they are going to print the envelopes for you, as it will con­tain all the rel­e­vant names and addresses.

The handy table plan­ner can help you work out where you want to seat every­one along with my hints and tips of how to seat peo­ple and what to think about. This is a sep­a­rate spread­sheet so that you can email it straight to the sta­tioner and keep your wed­ding plan­ning details separate.

How to get your wed­ding plan­ning tools

The cost for the com­plete set of Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard Plan­ning Tools is only £15. The soft­ware is com­pat­i­ble with Excel and will work on a MAC or PC.

The wed­ding plan­ning tools are for sale in the Wed­ding Genie Shop. Pay­ments are through Pay­Pal, you don’t need an account.

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I hope you enjoy using the Wed­ding Genie Wiz­ard, have a fab­u­lous wed­ding, one that is on bud­get and super organised.

Julie Daw­son is a pro­fes­sional wed­ding plan­ner who I really admire for her ded­i­ca­tion and integrity. The Wed­ding Genie is a busi­ness that really cares about help­ing brides and grooms cre­ate a unique a wed­ding day that is full of all the lit­tle details that por­tray them as a cou­ple. As well as using the Wed­ding Plan­ning Tools we rec­om­mend, do visit The Wed­ding Genie blog for more great help and advice.

And of course if you’re look­ing for a pro­fes­sional wed­ding plan­ner do visit The Wed­ding Genie. Julie is based in Stafford­shire and works through­out the UK. She reg­u­larly works in the Mid­lands, Stafford­shire, Leices­ter­shire, Not­ting­hamshire and Derbyshire.