Planning a wedding is stressful, time-consuming and expensive. Our free wedding planner will make it much easier, keep you within your budget and ensure that you don’t forget to take care of anything!
This free wedding planner has a printable, online, and digital version. It will help you plan your wedding with minimum fuss and without an expensive wedding planner. For more wedding printables see how to plan a wedding.
Wedding Organizer Book
The wedding planner journal has the following pages.
Wedding Checklist
The wedding planner has a short version of our wedding checklist. In the digital wedding planner, each item in the checklist links to that page in the planner. To return to the checklist, you click on the “checklist” tab at the bottom of the page. There is an additional blank checklist to add anything else you want to track.
Inspiration
Bridal Style
Priorities
Budget
This is a short simple wedding budget. If you want a more comprehensive spreadsheet see our free wedding budget printables.
Set your budget here. There is a column for the planned and actual budget. The list includes everything from your invitations to the honeymoon. It includes the following 25 items:
- Invitations
- Dress
- Hair
- Makeup
- Jewelry
- Bridesmaids
- Suit
- Groomsmen
- Reception
- Cake
- Flowers
- Favors
- Food
- Venue
- Decoration
- Caterer
- Photographer
- Videographer
- Emcee
- DJ/Music/Band
- Rentals
- Limo/Transport
- Church/Minister
- Thank You Cards
- Honeymoon
There is also blank budget on the next page if you want to add additional items.
Venue
Cake
There are two worksheets to help you decide on a cake. The first one compares four bakers or bakeries. Once you have decided on a baker, the second worksheet compares four cakes. For each cake, it takes into account the budget, style, number of servings, flavor, filling, and colors in addition to an overall rating. These questions are sure to help you make an informed decision.
Caterer
Drinks
Photography Checklist
Make a list of your must-have wedding photos including:
- Engagement shoot
- Wedding day pre-ceremony
- Ceremony
- Post ceremony
- Couple shots
- Family shots
- Bridal party
- Bridal party
- Family shots
- Informal shots
- Reception
There is also a page to help you choose a photographer. It compares each photographer according to the quote they give (i.e. their price), what it includes and what it doesn’t include. It also has an overall rating where you would take into account their style and if you liked the sample photos they showed you from weddings they photographed in the past.
Guest List
Wedding Party
Flowers
Schedule
See also wedding program and wedding timeline for a schedule template.
Seating Chart
Playlist
Registry Tracker
Monthly Calendar
Tradition
Notes
Sketches
Formats Available
The digital wedding planner
The digital wedding planner template has links to each page and works with a PDF annotation app such as Goodnotes or Noteshelf.
Printable wedding planner
A free printable wedding planner workbook PDF that you can print and complete in your handwriting (if you prefer you can type first and then print since the workbook is typeable).
Online wedding planner
To create a free online wedding planner template, save the planner on Google drive to give access to other people as well. It is typeable so you can enter all your info online. When it is complete, you can print it or share it.
Excel Wedding Spreadsheet
The Excel wedding spreadsheet has 15 tabs to organize your entire wedding. It starts with a wedding countdown and also has a guest list, wedding budget, seating chart and more!
The following sections are included in the wedding planning spreadsheet:
- Wedding countdown
- Wedding budget spreadsheet
- Wedding checklist
- Wedding day timeline
- Guest list spreadsheet
- Seating chart