best online resources? best budget calculator template?

[pannini]

Hey PSers!

What are your favorite online sites for the most comprehensive list of vendors catering to San Francisco?

What are your favorite online sites for wedding idea eye candy?

What is a good place to start in terms of figuring out the budget? Is there a good and realistic template I could download?


Thanks!

 

[hawaiianorangetree]

I like projectwedding for the eye candy and I was using Martha Stewart weddings budget template, but I''m not sure if it''s any good.

 

[YSQueen]

I lean towards Wedding Wire for their budgetary template because you can add and take away categories. My Wedding Workbook is good too!!!

Wedding Wire
My Wedding Workbook

 

[parrot tulips]

Favorite sites for Bay Area vendors - Project Wedding & Yelp

Favorite sites for wedding eye candy/inspiration:

http://snippetandink.blogspot.com/
http://greenweddingshoes.blogspot.com/
http://www.oncewed.com/
http://www.stylemepretty.com/
http://www.thebridescafe.com/
http://ruffledblog.com/

I didn''t use any budget templates, just made my own generic excel spreadsheet, so I''m of no help to you there.

 

[Bella_mezzo]

my fave templates for budget were weddingwire.com and weddingchannel.com.

Congrats and good luck!!!

 

[dcgator]

I second weddingwire for budget as well as for finding local vendors. We found about 3 or 4 of our vendors for our OOT wedding on there.

I also recommend the awesome guest info keeper on wedding wire. I was able to keep all the names, address, etc organized in a central location, and that was sooo helpful!

 

[pannini]

this is awesome. i have a feeling i''ll be doing more ogling than planning with these sites! i''ll just stare and drool and forget to doing anything in terms of booking!

thanks everyone!

 

[bigdiamondtinygal]

I found www.herecomestheguide.com very helpful in terms of finding local vendors and information. I personally use the budgeter and other online resources (guest list manager, payment tracker etc) from theknot.com and I like them. Marthastewartweddings.com has some great ones too.

 

[bigdiamondtinygal]

oh...and I should add that I did NOT use the suggested budget that many of the online budgeters suggested. Unfortunately, if you live in a larger city like LA or NY the numbers they had were WAY too low, but you can find articles on those sites about suggested percentages of you budget that you may allot toward specific things.