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| Martha Stewart's Keepsake Wedding Planner | 
 enlarge | Author: Martha Stewart Living Magazine
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $18.16
You Save: $11.79 (39%)
New (36) Used (21) from $6.48
Avg. Customer Rating:  50 reviews
Media: Ring-bound
Edition: Lslf
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 10.9 x 1.8
ISBN: 1400048001
Dewey Decimal Number: 395.220973
EAN: 9781400048007
Publication Date: August 26, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wedding Efficient! October 4, 2005
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Being a Martha Supporter and Follower I couldn't consider planning a wedding without using tadbits from Martha. This being said you may want to look around to see if there's something more comprehensive that meets all your needs. Which I haven't found so far.
The Binder is beautifully made, colors, design, format & lightweight. Cover is fabric; much nicer then the minilla folders I have been carring around. Includes ten chapters (I could use more, as I am a do it yourselfer but reduces and narrows down the important docs with just the needed xtras)
Love the color photographs of the floral arrangements. Getting Married in the Cayman Islands and have lots of ideas and needs that I am bringing from NY - but also want to keep the island theme...So with that lots of additional print outs added to this 3ring neccessity.
Includes timelines, checklists, and diagrams as you see in all planners and online planners. Keeps you more organized by holding all the neccessities in 1 place. But you will need an addition 3 ring binder or planner if you are just beginning your planning.
With this all said..Enjoy your planning for it is this time which lasts much longer then the actually day.
 Great planning tool August 18, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has been very helpful in the planning of my daughter's wedding. We are using many of the ideas suggested. It is great way to keep everything organized and in one place. This book will be something my daughter will cherish and share with her daughter someday.
An elegant and thorough planner July 3, 2005
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
I will admit going in that I am a little biased. I like Martha Stewart. That said, I did shop around when I looked for planners. I chose this one for a couple of reasons - the main one being it's classy design. It's much less tacky than the others I saw and the photography was gorgeous. I found it had all the information I needed.
The binder is divided into several sections by tabs, each of which is several pages and has room to keep include your own things. The first section is "Getting Started" which contains a timeline of when to do things and a calendar. Then there's a section on "Guests" with suggestions for out-of-towners and a worksheet for keeping track of invites. There's a complete section on "Stationery", which is a little more than I needed detailing the various components of a traditional invitation, with descriptions of font-sizes and pictures. The other sections are: "Fashion and Beauty," with tips on the outfits for all members of the bridal party (even ringbearers); "Ceremony," with details on processionals, recessionals etc.; "Reception" which has fantastic tips on working with caterers, renting tents and questions to ask about the site; "Photography and Music," which also contains lists of questions to ask vendors, suggestions for music and tips on digital or traditional film; "Flowers," which has wonderful colour illustrations of various flowers organised by colour and when they're in bloom, and finally "Cakes and Favours," and "Registry and Honeymoon," with a good checklist of suggestions for registering and booking travel.
Things I like about this planner are that it is lightweight and easy to carry around. Also there are plastic containers for business cards as well as folders to stick contracts and other documentation in. Some people have complained it fell apart easily, but mine has a canvas section around the back that is quite solid. The three metal rings are also sturdy. The best thing about is there is plenty of room to add your own clippings or papers in, a major flaw with some of the others. It's true, you do have to photocopy some of the worksheets like the one for guests, but since I will likely keep my guestlist electronically, I don't need all those extra copies. The sample she provides is thorough and useful though and I will be typing it up.
We are planning our wedding ourselves and it's been the book I've consulted most often. If you like classy, beautiful photography and want necessary information on planning, this is good for you. If you want a thick compendium that covers every possible thing from changing your name to how to tell your ex-husband you're getting married, then maybe you need something additional. For me, I didn't feel the need for advice on those topics, and this was great for just reminding me of what needed to be done and staying organised.
 If you are a Martha Stewart fan April 19, 2005
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought this to plan for my wedding. If you have been enthralled with Martha Stewart Weddings' pictures and ideas and thought this planner will help you in your wedding plans, you will be disappointed. It has amazing pictures and the planner basically reused pictures from past issues, categorized and re-organized into topics: beauty, ceremony, flowers, reception etc. It is however, not a planner. The information contained is a summary of what you can find on marthastewart.com - it's succinct, and not detailed - you'll have to supplement with your own notes which is fine except for the construction of the binder: The binder has limited capacity and so could not contain many additional notes/clippings you may have as you progress. In addition, the elastic band that holds the binder is placed too near the edge of the binder and so does a poor job holding the flaps together. Its claim is correct though - it's really a 'keepsake'. If you like Martha's ideas, you'll still find this a treasure trove. Bottom-line, to use this, do more research and be prepared to buy an extra thicker binder.
Could have included more, but still the best planner available March 29, 2005
46 out of 46 found this review helpful
The 3-ring binder format of this planner (found in very few planners) make this planner extremely useful. We are able to keep all our contracts together in it. Plus, any other papers (e.g., I printed out some ceremony readings, punched holes in them, and put them in the binder) There is also handy storage for business cards. There are gorgeous, glossy full color photos. I can't stress enough how practical and functional the 3-ring binder format is. However, I would suggest a companion planner to go along with this that includes things this one left out, such as The Anti-Bride Wedding Planner by Gerin/Hughes/Hornick. (I bought and looked at a ton of planners, and not one of them "had it all") Still the best, but it could have included more. More worksheets could have been included (for example, lists of questions to ask each vendor, for one thing), and instead of one worksheet for each category that is included, with a notation to "make photocopies as needed", it seems the book would have been more "helpful" (it's goal) and a better value to have just included multiple copies of each. If you love Martha Stewart you will enjoy this planner, but probably with a companion planner to one that includes some of the things this one leaves out. It's a very elegant and beautiful keepsake.
I edited the review 4 months into my wedding planning, because this planner turned out to be a lot more helpful than I initially realized it would be. My previous review was lukewarm, but after 4 months of serious planning and 7 vendors hired, I am appreciating this planner's usefulness. I looked at 15+ planners. I bought 4 planners. 2 of the 4 I bought I threw away - I thought they'd be useful but they weren't. Now I use both Martha Stewart and Anti-Bride. Neither would be enough alone, but they are great companions. No one planner out there "gets it" yet.
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