I can’t even imagine planning a wedding before the internet existed.  First of all, there are an infinite number of places to get inspiration for your big day.  Second of all, and most importantly to me, the internet is a great way to stay organized for your wedding.  How did brides keep up with everything before the tools that are available today?

In case you missed it, make sure you catch Tulip Bud’s post on staying organized for your wedding.  She shares some great tools that she uses, and I’d like to share some of my own.  Specifically, the tools I use are great for collaboration: it’s so hard to keep things straight between your maid of honor, your new mother in law, your officiant, your wedding director; how do you keep it all straight?

Wedding Wire

As Tulip mentioned, Wedding Wire has some great planning tools.  One of the things I love about Wedding Wire is that you can create multiple log ins for the same wedding. This means your fiancé, mother in law and maid of honor can all have a login to share guest lists and RSVP counts.

Wedding Wire features several great tools, such as a seating planner:

Wedding Wire Seating Chart Planner

There’s also a great guest list manager:

Wedding Wire Guest List Manager

Additionally, if you use a Wedding Wire website, you can use their online RSVP tool that syncs with your guest list – how convenient is that?

Google Docs

Google Docs is a great way to share information in the form of spreadsheets or word documents.  Anyone with a Google login can use Google Docs, and you control who can view or edit every file.  For instance, we share a document with our officiant to discuss ideas and inspiration for the ceremony.

Google Wave

Google Wave is a relatively new tool, but I’ve been so impressed with its helpfulness and flexibility so far.  My MOH and my wedding director and I have several “waves” (which are individual conversations that can be edited at any time) where we discuss various aspects of the wedding, such as timeline, music, processional order and vendor contact info.

Google Wave

Those are just a few of the great tools available to brides today, to help keep everything organized for the big day.  Are there any other sites out there that you’d recommend?