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Wedding planning worksheets and wedding checklists can save CCB Heart Icon White 150x150 Wedding Planning Worksheets, Timelines & Checklists Can Make Your Wedding Easy!Brides a lot of time, energy and stress when planning their weddings. You can find all of the worksheets and checklists for your wedding on Central Coast Bride’s website. Access is easy and free!

Wedding Planning Worksheets. Our selection of worksheets include a Budget Worksheet, Venue Selection Worksheet, Music Worksheet, Attire Worksheet and many more. You can simply print out the worksheets; however, they are more useful if you download them to your computer. Then you can enter your wedding information, save them, print them out and store them in your 3-ring Wedding Binder. Have changes/updates for a spreadsheet? Simply edit your saved electronic version, print and replace the one in your binder.

Our budget worksheet is particularly useful. Enter your estimated or planned wedding budget numbers. The worksheet totals up costs for all of your wedding services and supplies by category.  As decisions are made, enter your actual costs. This is a great way to identify money saved in one category so that you can allocate it to a different category as needed!

Wedding Timelines & Checklists. The best way to keep your wedding planning on time and stress-free is to set up an overall wedding planning schedule, or timeline. Use our Overall Timeline to help you think about all possible tasks that need to be addressed to pull off a great wedding. Check out our timelines and checklists, including Emergency Kit Checklist, on our website at www.CentralCoastBride.com.

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Monterey Spring Show

I love Bridal Shows. And the first Spring Bridal Show that Central Coast Bride produced in Monterey last Sunday was certainly no exception. It was spectacular.  The nearly 70 Wedding Exhibitors designed excellent showcases in their booths, transforming the already beautiful ballroom at the Monterey Hyatt Regency into a truly magical space. 

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McCullough Photography Booth

Having a Bridal Show on the Sunday that daylight savings time takes effect was an unintended, but it worked out very well. Brides flowed into the ballroom at a steady pace most of the afternoon. This perfect spacing of Bride traffic made for a relaxing show, even though there were nearly 500 attendees, including the 200 Brides.  Plus our new cafe’ seating in front of the stage provided a great place for groups to relax between bouts of interviewing Wedding Caterers, Photographers, DJs and more.

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The Winning Couple

The Bridal Show Exhibitors provided lots of great prizes for the Brides, including a Wedding Photography package, musicians for a Ceremony, a couples retreat package and many more. These prizes were all given away once an hour to delighted Brides! Then came the time for the $1000 cash grand prize giveaway at 4pm. Tension built, couples gathered around the stage, drumroll and then the winning Bride’s name was called. And called. And then called again. We didn’t record that missing Bride’s name, but on the second draw there was no doubt that the winning Bride was present.  Dionica Pena and her fiance’ Louie Martinez beamed with excitement as flashbulbs popped.

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Coastside Couture Booth

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Freedom Bakery Booth

We at Central Coast Bride are still bustling around preparing for our final Spring Bridal Show, which is in San Luis Obispo next Sunday, March 14th. It is held at the landmark Alex Madonna Expo Center and with 120 Exhibitors, any Bride can complete her wedding planning in one afternoon. We hope to see you there!