The Domesticated Heroine : Wedding Fever!

Yay we have made it through yet another week. Hooray for that not hooray for it being only 5 more weeks of summer left :( but i am trying to stay busy with fun filled days and "happy drink" filled nights ;).

It seems like i am always in some sort of fever, baby fever, wedding fever, blog fever, craft fever and most times when i am in that fever i am in it hardcore, if you don't believe me just check my Pinterest lol.
Right now i am in full blown wedding fever mode, (maybe its been going on for the past 12 months but whose counting?) My boyfriend's brother just got engaged to his girlfriend of 4 years a few weeks back and after living with them for a year we became pretty close, so naturally i was excited for them when they got engaged. The Real kind of excited though not the fake facebook friend excited where we see yet another couple getting engaged and we quickly hit the "like" button and proceed to insert some automatic "yay congratulations, so happy for you" response that we all know we do not mean. I know i am not the only one who has done that!

Anyway i am really happy for them and seeing as how i am apart of the Bridal party i am doubly happy because i figured this is a way to unleash some of my wedding fever crazy through a healthy and productive outlet. Hahah what I initially thought was a good outlet turned into the gasoline i needed to fuel my already crazy wedding fever, nonetheless i got to dust off the old Pinterest wedding board (because it had been weeks since i pinned anything there ;)) and help the Bride to be (Brandy) with her wedding book.

Now i am all about the crafts and DIY things so when we discussed a wedding planner not being in the budget for them i was oh so eager to help her start her own wedding book to get her to the Big day and through the big day! You can easily buy your own wedding planning book but from what i hear they can get pretty expensive and sometimes have things you really do not need in them. A DIY wedding book is a lot cheaper and is customized to what you want and need. I found some really cute ideas on Pinterest but really the free printable templates were my favorite from all the sites i looked at, the rest is pretty much up to your own designs.

What i noticed from almost every DIY wedding book were these sections; Budget, Ceremony & Reception, Wedding Party, Mr. & Mrs., Important and Guest.

Each section seems pretty self explanatory so i feel there is no need to go into detail on what should go into each section, should you need further help i read a lot from this awesome blog called DIY Bride. Click here for the link to her blog :)

The most amazing site that i found really useful provided free printable templates to use in your wedding book, it has everything from a guest list to a Wedding emergency checklist, you can print what you need and skip the things you do not need, yes it is harsh on your printer but well worth it in the end lol. Click Here for the site to print out free printable templates for your own Wedding book.

To get started i had all i needed already at the house pretty much, although i did stop by the dollar store to pick up a zipper pouch ( to hold business cards and any receipts they will accumulate) and for sticky notes but the rest i had at home.

Here are some things you might need

1-3 inch binder - If you are planning a huge formal wedding i would get the bigger binder but for a smaller event a 1-1 and a half inch binder should do just fine.
Scissors
Glue
Pictures (Should you want them on the binder)
Labels / Page dividers
Clear protective sheets ( For each section, in case you rip things out of magazines or for things that cant be hole punched)

That is pretty much all i used (Along with the inserted templates and Calendars) plus decorative scrap booking paper to add some flare and i think it turned out great!! She loved it and since she did not even know what a Wedding book was or what it should consist of i was happy to offer her my services lol.