How to use Pinterest as your best wedding planning tool!

Pinterest is the Greatest wedding planning tool to come along since the first wedding magazine was published! It might even be better! It is a great place to organize your thoughts visually, discover new and creative ways to do just about anything, and to share your ideas with others. In this post, I’d like to discuss 5 smart ways that you can use Pinterest to be the ultimate modern bride.

Use it with your Wedding Planner

First of all, if your wedding planner is not on Pinterest, you should probably find a new one, cause there is probably something seriously wrong with them! Pinterest is just as revolutionary for Wedding Planners as it is for brides. Creating a shared board with your planner can help you both get on the same page. Being inspired together allows great things to happen! Inspiration boards have been created by planners for their clients for decades. But Pinterest puts a new spin on inspiration boards, since both parties can post on it. To share a board with your planner, simply add your planners email address or name to the board settings when you create it. When you post a wedding element that you would like implemented in your own wedding, your planner can instantly see it and begin working on the details to make it happen for you!

Use it with your Florist

Share a board or two with your florist. This will allow you to keep your thoughts organized (a separate board for centerpieces and bouquet ideas). Being able to share visual ideas with your florist will make sure that your flowers are exactly as you envision them. I have seen it happen too many times where the bride will receive her flowers on the morning of her wedding only to realize that the “Nosegays” bouquet that their florist had been talking about, was not the “Hand-Tied” bouquet style that the bride was envisioning. Also, colors of flowers come in many different shades, so telling your florist you want peach colored roses to match the bridesmaids dresses, could result in a orange shade, if the florist does not have an exact visual to go off of. A shared board between your florist, your wedding planner, and yourself, can make sure that no exclusive industry vocabulary gets in your way of achieving your vision!

Use it with your Photographer

Any good wedding photographer will ask you for a list of must have shots that you want to have taken on your wedding day. This ensures that on the day of, when everything is going a mile a minute, your photographer can look at the list and know that you absolutely want a photo of you and your big sister back to back. Or a portrait photo of you and your groom 3 feet away from each other holding hands. It is much easier to post inspirational photos to Pinterest as you see them than to remember them 2 weeks before your big day when you are asked to have the list ready. It is also easier to show your photographer a visual example of the style of photographs that you want ,then to try to describe it in words through an email.

  Use it with your Bridesmaids

If you are like most brides, many or at least some of your closest friends don’t live near you. I know for me, 2 of my 4 bridesmaids lived in Utah. The other 2 lived here in San Diego, but they had small kiddos at home. This made getting together for dress shopping rather difficult. And I wanted their input, I didn’t want to be one of those brides that just said here’s your ugly dress, now fork over some cash! Now Pinterest can allow for everyone to have some input. You can post dress options you like for them, they can post options they like, and everyone feels like they at least have a part in the process. But remember, you are the deciding voice. It is your wedding, not theirs!

Use it for you!

Keeping all of your ideas visually in separate boards will help you to keep things organized! Organization and Lack of Procrastination are the secret keys to successfully planning a wedding without turning into a…, you know! Use it from day one, to organize your thoughts and inspirations. Your boards will evolve over time throughout your engagement. Turning from just inspirations, into how to tutorials that you know you can’t to forget, into a dialog between you and your vendors. It is also a great way for your vendors to connect before your big day to collaborate on ideas that will transform your wedding into the event that everyone else wants to emulate! An awesome wedding doesn’t need to cost a ton of money, it just takes creativity and work. If it seems like too much work, hire a wedding planner to help with some of the details or the coordination of it all! One thing is for sure though, use Pinterest! And be smart about it! It will help, I Promise!

San Diego Wedding Planner describes how to be smart about using Pinterest in all aspects of your wedding!

Happy Planning!

-Juliette