Congratulations! You’re engaged! I bet your head is spinning with all the people and plans you hope to include in your special day! It is time to start putting names to paper {or spreadsheet} and building your Wedding Guest List Excel Spreadsheet. How big will your wedding be? How expensive? All these answers and more are truly contingent on your Wedding Guest List, the headcount and the numbers involved. Did you know that the best way to control your budget is to control your Guest List? It is…

We recommend you make your Guest List in an Excel Spreadsheet. With the ability to sort and calculate there really is no better method. In fact, we prefer it so much, we’re going to give you a FREE one and walk you through building it!
If you do not yet have Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel you can download them both from the Microsoft Website.

You can also buy a Microsoft Office Suite from Amazon!

Enroll in the FREE Excel Spreadsheet Mini-Series!

The popular download is now a FREE ECourse! Still totally free and you don’t even have to give your email anymore! I’ve put together a 5 Video Tutorial AND an Invitation 101 Slideshow together for you.

[CLICK HERE] to Enroll in the Mini-Series and download your FREE Spreadsheet

PS- You can totally download and run, no pressure! But the videos are free 😉

Come back here and complete the first assignment once you’re in the Ecourse:

How to Make Your Wedding Guest List Excel Spreadsheet

In your first email, after subscribing to the 4 Email Mini-Series, click the link to the shareable file, and use the downward arrow icon to download it.  It should then open as a Microsoft Excel Spreadsheet on your computer. If you are a MAC user… well, find a PC or a comparable version for MAC, but I don’t think our equations will still work.

When you open it you will see three Sheets. Now, this looks very confusing at first but we’ll walk you through it and you’ll be organized in no time! If you have no experience with Microsoft Excel you will want to have a one on one walk through to understand the keying terms.

Our spreadsheet has a lot of correlating links that already connect the 3 Sheets:

• A. Your Guestlist- Getting Started {HERE in this post}
• B. Estimated/Actual Expenses- {In the ECourse Mini-Series}
• C. Budget Breakdown- {In the ECourse Mini-Series}

Many of the cells are also locked, and un-editable to you for the integrity of the formulas. If for some reason you need to edit a cell, simply send me an email and I’ll help you through it.

Assignment 1A: Getting Started

On Sheet 1, replace everything that we have coded in GREEN with your own personal information. Insert as many rows as you need to allow for all your guests. Once you have replaced the sample information with your own, highlight the cell and turn the text color to black.

Guest Names

Start on Sheet 1. Enter all of your potential guests, everyone you would ever hope to invite if you had an infinite budget, {some will be put on the B-list in case A-listers decline} using this format of the columns:

• RSVP Tracking # {leave alone for now}
• Last Name
• First Name(s)
• Guest Name in this format, “& John Smith” it will be important for the label mail merge when we do invitations
• Mailing Address
• City, State
• Zip Code
• How many people are invited per this row
• How many people have RSVPed per this row
• Wedding Side: Bride or Groom
• Relation to the couple: Family, Friends, Work, etc Make them precise
• Kids- if this party includes any children under 10 years old
  1. All kids must already be included in the Column G count!
• List- Which List for priority invite this guest is on: A, B, C or D {we’ll cover all of this more later}
• SENT- is a column dedicated to you checking their invitation off after it’s been mailed
• Bridal Shower Invites- You can use this same list to mail merge your Bridal Shower invitations

 

Bonus Read |How to Mail Merge your Guest List & Why You Should

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Enroll in the FREE Mini-Series to find these Assignments and Tutorials too:

• Bookkeeping on Sheet 2 and other purchases all your fun Project Block Ingredients = Assignment 2
• Tracking your RSVPs and saving some money = Assignment 3
• Addressing your Invitations “Properly” by combing through prefixes, guests, children and how to address outer envelopes = Assignment 4

Sound like assignments you might want to follow through with?




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