Congratulations! You’re Engaged and now you’ve arrived in Wedding Planning Heaven! I’m Megan, and I can’t wait to help you plan the big day of your dreams.
I hope you find this index of our wedding advice, guides and checklists useful – Please have a look at little white book wedding planner before you go, it’ll keep you on track every step of the way.
Essential Wedding Organisation Tools
- little white book – voted best wedding planner in Australia & featured on CNN
- vendor checklists, excel spreadsheets, budget and guest list worksheets
- something blue – bridal subscription box
Starting Wedding Planning
- Engagement 101: Before you Start Wedding Planning
- How to start Wedding Planning – First Steps Checklist!
- How to announce your engagement
- How to start your wedding budget
- How to start your wedding guest list
- The ultimate stress-free Wedding Planning timeline
- 12 month wedding planning checklist
- How to plan your engagement party
- Step by Step Wedding Planning Guide
Wedding Budget Advice
- The Ultimate Wedding Budget Guide
- Wedding Budget Excel Template – product
- How much does a wedding cost (and what ours cost)
- How to prioritise your wedding budget
- How to allocate the balance of your wedding budget
- 30 Unexpected Costs Brides forget to budget for
- Why the “average” Cost of a Wedding is so misleading!
Wedding Guest List Questions
- How to start your wedding guest list
- Wedding Guest List Excel Template – product
- Most Common Wedding Guest Etiquette Questions
Choosing your Wedding Venue
- How to choose your wedding venue
- Top 10 New Zealand Wedding Venues & Destinations
- Consider a destination wedding
- How to organise a marquee wedding
- Why have a winter wedding?
Bridal party
- Choose your bridal party
- How to ask your bridesmaids
- Organise your bridal party
- What should your Bridesmaids Pay For?
Wedding Planning Advice
- The top 5 wedding planning tools (that aren’t Pinterest)
- What You Need to Know if You Don’t Have a Wedding Planner
- Unplugged Wedding – Why you Won’t Regret Banning Phones on your Wedding Day…
- Avoiding Wedding Planning Arguments: Prenups, Finances, Family and Fiance’s lack of interest
- Are you Demanding Too Much from your Wedding Guests?
- How to plan a wedding that suits your personalities
- Wedding Social Media Ideas: Signs, Invitations & Etiquette
- The Life Changing Magic of Wedding Planning
- What a Wedding Planner Won’t Tell You
- How to plan a green wedding (reuse, recycle, be eco-friendly!)
- Navigating wedding shows – read before you go!
- Why You Should Treat Wedding Planning like a Holiday
- What wedding guests like at a wedding
- What wedding guests don’t like at a wedding
- Bridal Bargains for a Luxe Wedding
- Is a Cash Bar all that different to asking for Cash Gifts?
- How to plan a feminist wedding
- Bad wedding advice – what NOT to follow
- Wedding Planners: You’re Breaking The Law
- Is your wedding all about you?
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Taking Care of Your Engagement Ring
- The Best and Worst things about being engaged
- The 9 Most Annoying Questions People Ask When You’re Engaged
- Personalise your wedding ceremony
- One month countdown til your wedding day!
- Legalities of marrying in New Zealand
- How to organise your seating plan
- Should you have a first look on your wedding day?
- Set up bathroom baskets for your guests
Wedding Style & Theme
- 5 Samoan Wedding Traditions to inspire your style
- Gorgeous Greek Wedding Inspiration
- 6 Easy ways to Reuse, Recycle, Reduce Waste and Save Money on your Wedding Day
- You know you’re a Millennial if your Wedding looks like this…
Destination Weddings
- Consider a destination wedding
- Why to plan your destination wedding in Rarotonga
- 5 Samoan Wedding Traditions to inspire your style
- Are these the best destination wedding photos in the world?
Pre Wedding Parties
- Plan your engagement party
- The Best Engagement gifts for the Bride to Be
- Have an engagement photoshoot
- Let your bridesmaids throw you a bridal shower
- Plan a Bachelorette party that isn’t boring!
- Planning a no-prep, no stress party
- Best Bridal Hens Party & Bachelorette Games
- Hens Party Accessories You Can’t Be Without!
Wedding Catering: Food, Drink & Cake
- Consider wedding catering options
- How to Host a Brunch Wedding
- Cut the cost of your wedding cake
- Can you make your own wedding cake?
- What you need to know about grazing table/platter catering
Wedding Stationery, Photography & other Vendors
- Send save the date cards
- Write and send your thank you cards
- Find your wedding photographer
- Read a little wedding advice from the vendors
- Organise your wedding flowers
- Rosie’s wedding flower advice
- Do you really need a make-up artist?
- How to choose your wedding day music
- Craft Party Wedding DIY: Time to call in Favours
- How to organise your seating plan
- Are you Demanding Too Much from your Wedding Guests?
- Momzilla? How to Deal with an Overbearing Mother of the Bride or Groom
Wedding Gift Advice
- Asking for Wedding Gifts:Ideas, Registries & Invitation Wording
- Attending Engagement Parties: Gifts to Take, What to Wear
- Can you ask for cash for a wedding present?
- Do you ask for engagement presents?
- Setting up a wedding registry
- Consider a honeymoon registry
- I still do – wedding anniversary journal
- The History of Wedding Anniversary Gifts
- Don’t forget your Thank you cards
Wedding Dresses & Bridal Party Attire
- How to find the perfect wedding dress for your body type
- 7 mistakes brides make wedding dress shopping
- 27 Wedding Dresses under $270
- What to wear to an Engagement Party
- Wedding Day Dress Code
- Can you wear white to a wedding?
- Will you wear a veil on your big day?
- Beautiful Bridalwear that won’t Break the Bank
- Cheap Wedding Dresses Cheapen Weddings?
- What about Cheap suits..?
- Choose your wedding day jewellery
Final Wedding Countdown
- Will you change your name after marriage?
- Bride Walking the Aisle alone
- Wedding Planning… according to Twitter
After the Wedding
- Begin your wedding journal – I still do
- Why it’s 10x better to be married than engaged!
- 3 ways to Ensure you Remember your Wedding Day
- Your 1st Wedding Anniversary Gift Guide
- Create your Wedding Photo Album
- Don’t forget your Thank you cards
- Post-Wedding Blues and Boredom? Here’s how to Beat it
- 5 Awkward Conversations All Couples Need to Have
Marriage & Relationships
- How to celebrate your first year anniversary
- What’s more important than Wedding Planning?
- How to plan a romantic surprise for your partner
- Wedding anniversary gift guide
- I still do – wedding anniversary journal
- 5 Great Date Nights on a Budget
- What MAFS Teaches Us About Relationships
- Why you need to Know the Five Love Languages in a Relationship
- Does a Relationship’s Timing Determine its success?
- Jealous much? Making peace with the green eyed monster
- How Burnout Affects Your Relationship, and How to Avoid it
Honeymoon & Travel
- Planning your Honeymoon: Why Wait?
- Why you need honeymoon/travel insurance
- TLC while Travelling
- Honeymoon Upgrade Tips
- Big Island Hawaii
- Maui
- Kauai
- Waikiki, Oahu
- Dubai
- Paris
- Amsterdam
- Copenhagen
- Rarotonga
- Las Vegas
- Samoa
- New York VLOG
- Hawaii VLOG
- Buenos Aires VLOG
- Queenstown VLOG
- Romantic weekend in Rotorua
- 7 things to do in a Weekend in Rotorua
- Weekend away at Treghan Lodge
- Bay of Islands: Romance in Russell
Health, Wellbeing & Beauty
- Your 6 Month Wedding Beauty Timeline
- “How to get into Wedding Shape in 10 days”
- Flash v Revitalish Lash Serum
- Should You Have Botox Before Your Wedding?
- Wedding planning comparison
- Pick the perfect foundation for your wedding day
- How to whiten your teeth for your wedding day
- Best Long-Lasting Wedding Day Lipsticks
- Nails that won’t overshadow your wedding dress
- How to choose your wedding day fragrance
- Staying mentally healthy while wedding planning
- My Wedding Diet made me Infertile (I’m fine, now!)
- Pre-Wedding Beauty Prep & Skincare Routine – Nicole Warne v Me.
- Get More Done Every Day (Without Burning Out)
- How Burnout Affects Your Relationship, and How to Avoid it
- How to Beat the Winter Blues and Avoid Burnout
If you like this, you’ll love the little white book wedding planner, it’s a wedding organiser and diary, and it’s also available in a bundle with the wedding planning pack – a set of PDFs to ensure a perfectly organised wedding.
Head to She Said Yes Shop to see them all.
