As recent newlyweds, Angela and I remember the struggle of planning. We spent hours and hours of meticulously researching vendor after vendor, poring over thousands of Pinterest pins, going over the smallest details in our minds for days, it was crazy! We were SO glad when we found a way to make the process way easier and streamlined at the very beginning! It saved us a ton of stress. Seriously.
Create a Wedding Email Address
Creating a separate email address just for wedding planning was a huge lifesaver! Having ALL wedding-related emails end up in one inbox was amazing. We couldn’t imagine lumping important vendor emails and invoices and contracts into our 4000+ email inboxes to be accidentally marked as read, deleted, or just plain overlooked. Yup, no thanks.
We wanted to make an effort to include our fiancés – as much as they wanted to be – in the wedding planning process so we needed a central location where we could both log into to check the status of emails, reply to vendors, and stuff like that. A separate account just made sense.
Not to mention, you don’t have to deal with the tons of spam that somehow appears when you get engaged. I mean you do, but this way, it’s all in a separate place. No more daily J. Crew or Bed, Bath and Beyond emails piling up in my inbox – instead I have a stockpile of them saved away somewhere else just in case J. Crew ever had a great sale on bridesmaids dresses! I have my wedding e-mail linked to my phone still today and each month I STILL get 150 emails that are just sales and promotions!
How do you do it?
You can get a new e-mail account pretty easily. Just log out of whatever mail service you are currently using (like gmail) and then click Sign Up instead of Log In. Fill out your info and pick a cute name (tip: make it the same as your wedding hashtag!) and you’re good to go!
We used ours for everything – bridal fair sign-ups, contact form inquiries, The Knot wedding planner, registry signups, honeymoon planning, the possibilities are endless 😉
We hope you use your own separate email address for wedding stuff – it’ll save you so many future headaches!
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