I got an email a couple of weeks ago telling me to check out My Wedding Workbook, so I did. One of the co-owners of My Wedding Workbook is Jeff, who happens to be the groom behind Groomasaurus, a wedding blog from the groom's point of view. There are a number of benefits to using My Wedding Workbook in helping you organize your big day {as well as the other events involved with your wedding}. It's easy, uncomplicated, and has a great help section in case you get lost.
It truly helps you organize every detail of your wedding, incorporates every wedding event, and automatically integrates the budgets, calendar/timeline, RSVPs, etc for each event. If you don't plan weddings or events for a living, organizing the details can become a bit overwhelming, so I think My Wedding Workbook serves its purpose of helping people organize those details within this online {safe & secure} software. Talk about convenience!
Now is the question of whether My Wedding Workbook is actually worth it. How does it differ from Martha Stewart Weddings' Planning Tools or Brides.com's Planning Tools or even The Knot's Wedding Tools? They each have their own versions of budgeting, RSVP tracking, seating, checklists, timelines, and so on, which I have to admit are the meat & potatoes of your day. These three sites also have one thing that differ from My Wedding Workbook.
The one distinction between My Wedding Workbook and these other sites is the mass of inspiring eye candy and listed vendors. Is that good, or is that bad? As a planner myself, I honestly have no preference. Sure, I get inspiration from Martha Stewart Weddings, Brides.com, and The Knot {really, who doesn't?}, but there are plenty of online wedding sources out there that are just as inspiring, so it's not like My Wedding Workbook is missing out by not having them. In fact, I commend My Wedding Workbook even more for not having paid vendors listed on their site, because that means their priority is not to sell you anything. My Wedding Workbook doesn't have a publication to back them, so I feel their motives are strictly to help.
So, should you use My Wedding Workbook or not? I say "YES, why not?". You have nothing to lose, something to gain, and there's nothing complicated about it.
