Wirral Mums Guide to using My Wedding Workbook My Wedding Workbook is an incredibly detailed online wedding planning system. It comes with a 182 page guide to planning a great wedding, along with a wide range of tools from guest tracking to expense planning to vendor management. Here’s how to use My Wedding Workbook. Step 1: Read the Guide My Wedding Workbook’s 182 page wedding guide covers just about everything you need to know about arranging your wedding. Of course it’s not required that you read the whole guide, but unless you’re already well versed in the process, it can remove a lot of the stress of the process. To get to the guide, click on “Go to my Etiquette Guide” on the main page. The guide will look something like this:
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Wirral Mums Guide to using My Wedding Workbook
My Wedding Workbook is an incredibly detailed online wedding planning system. It comes with
a 182 page guide to planning a great wedding, along with a wide range of tools from guest
tracking to expense planning to vendor management.
Here’s how to use My Wedding Workbook.
Step 1: Read the Guide
My Wedding Workbook’s 182 page wedding guide covers just about everything you need to
know about arranging your wedding.
Of course it’s not required that you read the whole guide, but unless you’re already well versed
in the process, it can remove a lot of the stress of the process.
To get to the guide, click on “Go to my Etiquette Guide” on the main page.
The guide will look something like this:
To navigate, just click the left or right hand side bars, or click a page along the bottom.
Step 2: Manage Your Guest List
My Wedding Workbook’s guest list management system allows you to track who’s coming to
what events, who’s RSVPed and who hasn’t, manage contact information and export everything
to PDF or Excel.
To get to the guest list management system, first click “Go to My Wedding Organizer.”
Then click on the “Guest List” option in the top tabs.
You’ll see the guest list system, which looks like this:
To add an individual family or guest, just click on Add a Family/Guest.
To print out a PDF of the guest list, just click on Guest List PDF.
To print all the notes about your guests, click on Guest Notes PDF.
To export all the data, click on Export.
To download an excel file that will allow you to fill in many guests at once, then upload that file,
click on Upload.
The system allows you to do a number of other things, like track meal counts or suggest hotels
to out-of-town guests. Play around with the system a bit to get a sense for how it works. It’s
much, much more effective than trying to manage a guest list on paper or Microsoft Word.
Step 3: Manage Your Budget
My Wedding Workbook’s budget management system allows you to set your budget goal, track
what you’ve spent and need to spend for every category of wedding expenses.
To access the budget system, click “Budget” in the top navigation bar.
To start, edit your budget goal. Until you set your goal, you can’t access the rest of the system.
The rest of the budget system looks like this:
To add an item, just click Add Item.
To change the budget for an entire category, click Edit in the category.
To move an item up or down, click the small arrows.
To expand a category, click the blue arrows.
Anytime you add an item, it’ll ask you how much the total cost is, as well as how much is
already paid. The data will be updated accordingly. If you ever want to change it, just click Edit
for that particular item.
Step 4: Manage Your Events
Click on “Events” in the top navigation bar.
Select which event to edit by hovering your mouse over the Events navigation bar along the top.
Select the specific event.
Edit the event by clicking the tabs and clicking “Edit” or “Add Detail.” Each event has a different
page and setup.
This is what the Bachelor Party setup looks like:
Repeat the process for each event that you need to track.
Step 5: Calendar for Managing Tasks Need to call the florist on a specific date? Or plan a meeting with your videographer? Keeping
track of everything that needs to be done can be quite a logistical nightmare.
Fortunately, My Wedding Workbook’s calendar system can help make it easier.
First, click on the “Task Calendar” tab in the navigation bar.
The calendar looks pretty much like what you’d expect from a calendar.
To add a task, just click the Add New Task button in the lower right. Pick a date, give it a name
and write any notes in. It’ll then appear in the calendar.
Check on your calendar on a regular basis and you’ll never forget a meeting or an important
task again.
Step 6: Manage Vendors
My Wedding Workbook makes it a piece of cake to manage contact information, payment terms
and notes about various vendors.
To start, click Vendors in the top navigation.
You’ll then be presented with a list of all the vendors you’ve already entered. To enter a new
one, just click Add Vendor/Contact.
You’ll be presented with a wide range of information you can type in. All fields are optional, so
just fill in the parts you want.
Step 7: Create Your Personal Wedding Site
You can create your own website, with guest lists, invitations, photos and more all through My
Wedding Workbook’s system.
Start by clicking on “Start my Personal Wedding Website” on the main screen.
Select the URL you want for the site. This will be appended to the end of
http://www.myweddingworkbook.com. In other words, if you entered “example,” you’d get
http://www.myweddingworkbook.com/example.
Once you’ve chosen your URL, you’ll be presented with the page edit site. Chose which pages
you want to display and which ones you want disabled (or private.)
