Planning a wedding? Don’t need the services of a professional wedding consultant? Good for you because you can do it, either the tried and tested way that your grandma or mom had gone through or you can have your own personal assistant whom you can call up 24 hours a day, 7 days a week – a wedding planner which you can purchase online. Some offer for gratis. However, there is one condition. You or your partner must be a little computer savvy. Otherwise, you can rope in your sibling or a friend to help you out.
With a wedding planner you will be more organized than if you were to write things down in a normal diary or if you do your own filing system. Getting a wedding planning tool provides an easy way for you to plan your big day using your computer. Most software programs allow you to store all ceremony, reception, wedding attire, stationery, and honeymoon details. You can use it to design your menus, wedding programs, even your choice of music, as well as draw maps, seat your guests, and print informative reports. You can create guest lists for parties, weddings, banquets, stag parties, bridal showers and more.
Does the idea of handling guest lists, keeping track of RSVPs and thank you notes overwhelm you? Do you get muddled up with the problem of who sits with whom, and where? Leave it to the program. Meal assignments and planning seating arrangements will be a breeze.
As you are aware, the most important factor when planning a wedding is the Budget. With the correct software, all you need to do is to just enter the total amount of money you want to spend on the wedding and the software will give you a sample budget based on that amount. It will show you how much you can expect to spend on the gown, the ring, the wedding favors, the food, the entertainment, etc. You can then start modifying it according to your own needs and priorities.
Another great feature of wedding planners is that you can print out your own envelopes, table place cards or address labels. Guest names and addresses will be taken directly from your guest list. You can design envelopes for the bridal shower or thank you cards. Be creative!
To all the would-be Best Men out there. Did you ever get the jitters of having been given the task and not really relishing the job? The responsibility of being a best man is heavy and some have made utter fools of themselves during their speech. If you have had nightmares and losing sleep over this, well fret not, as help is near. This wedding planning tool lets you create and deliver your speech like a profesional public speaker. Remove the butterflies from your stomach and make a great impression by saying the right things about the bride and groom. Reduce the chances of putting your foot in your mouth, so to speak.
So far we have been talking about normal weddings i.e. a marriage between two people of the same religion, race and probably the same nationality. What if you happen to fall in love with someone of a different religion, from a different cultural background or from a different country all together? You can’t use the same software and lump all these differences into one program. You need a wedding planning tool which allows you to specialize.
There is a program which caters to all kinds of weddings – be it non-religious, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim, Protestant, Interfaith, Roman Catholic, Orthodox Christian, gay or lesbian. For example in a Muslim wedding, the caterer has to be vigilant about halal food and the strict rule of no alcohol. Then there is this tricky situation of separate seating for men and women (in certain countries). With this software, you can drag a family to a table and it will then segregate the members of the correct gender and assign them to their respective tables. The program even offers Arabic as the alternative language.
In a Hindu wedding for example, the program covers common events like a sangeet and a mehendi party, in addition to the wedding and can help you plan as many events as you’d like. It also offers Hindi as the alternative language. While for a gay or lesbian wedding, the program will not refer to the couple as bride and groom and neither will it have a segment on bridesmaid’s gowns. The neat thing about the software, is that if you have same-sexed couples on your list, it can handle the correct etiquette for them.
Finally, you don’t have to burn a hole in your pocket to own one of these cool tools. They are very affordable, ranging from US$27 to US$47. Of course the profesional edition is more costly as it is catered to wedding consultants.
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