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The Big Day Binder

Your complete wedding planning companion.

Yours to edit

A live Canva link, not a locked PDF.

The binder lands in your inbox as a Canva link, not a static download. Open it on any device, rename a vendor, swap a photo, drag a row in the timeline, print one page or all 95. Everything is editable.

  • Edit on phone, tablet, or laptop — no Canva account required to view, free account to edit.
  • Share the link with your planner, MOH, or your mom — they can leave comments.
  • Print one page or the whole binder, any time. Canva auto-saves your changes.

95 editable pages · sent within minutes of submitting Step 1

Inside the Binder
Pages, edge to edge 95 pages, edge to edge
Chapters, fully editable 9 chapters, fully editable
Floor plans and maps 6 floor plans and maps
Years behind the camera 20 plus years behind the camera
Table of Contents

Nine chapters. One binder. Built for the day, not the inbox.

Open any chapter. The page on the right shows you exactly what's in it.

    • The two-venue spread, with circular photos for ceremony and reception
    • The four-swatch palette page, mapped to your real colors
    • Wedding party tiers, from Bride and Groom down to flower girl and ring bearer
    • One main contacts page, named and reachable in under a minute
    • Three full vendor pages: planner, florist, rentals, caterer, photo, video, transport, DJ, officiant, hair, makeup, cake
    • Built so the Maid of Honour can find the florist's number without unlocking your phone
    • Bridesmaid and groomsmen schedules, each name in its own row
    • Three transportation maps and two photography maps, printable as standalone sheets
    • The detailed hour-by-hour timeline: rehearsal, night before, wedding day, 8am to 2am
    • Full ceremony cue sheet: groomsmen, groom, bridesmaid, and bride entrances, each with the song slot ready
    • Reception cue sheet for family entrances, first dance, parent dances, cake cutting, last dance
    • Recessional and exit lists, so the DJ knows the order before you do
    • Bridal suite and groom's suite checklists, packed for the morning
    • Emergency kit list: every safety pin, stain pen, and bobby pin accounted for
    • Six shot lists: bride getting ready, groom getting ready, bride and groom together, family and friends, ceremony, reception
    • Lined writing pages for Bride, Groom, both Mothers, Maid of Honour, Best Man, and MC
    • One page per speaker, no shared margins, no scribbled-over backs
    • The kind of pages people actually write on, then keep
    • Five courses laid out plainly: hors d'oeuvre, starter, salad, main, dessert
    • Signature drinks split into His, Hers, and the bar list of beer and cocktails
    • One sheet your caterer can read across the kitchen
    • Borrowed, rented, and bought, sorted into their own tables so nothing goes home with the wrong person
    • Ceremony decor with item grids and diagrams, and the same for reception with DJ booth and dance floor placed
    • Welcome table, head table, sweetheart table: each one drawn, not described
    • Table options, then ceremony floor plan, then reception floor plan
    • The seating chart, Tables 1 through 6, every seat named
    • The final spread your planner walks the room with at 5am
Wedding Day, Hour by Hour

The timeline most planners charge for.

Rehearsal. Night before. Wedding day. Every hour accounted for, every vendor and party member named in the right cell.

Detailed hour-by-hour wedding day timeline from the Big Day Binder, rehearsal through reception
  • 01 Battle-tested over 20 years Every row exists because we watched a planner wish she'd had it. None of it is from a planning blog.
  • 02 Hour by hour, vendor by vendor Rehearsal, night before, wedding day. From 8 a.m. into the next morning, with every hand-off named.
  • 03 Editable in Canva. Printable anywhere. Move one row and the whole day shifts. Print it for the planner, share it as a PDF for the family group chat.
Inside the Photography Chapter

The photo-day pages.

Six shot lists, organized by moment. Bride getting ready. Groom getting ready. The couple. Family and friends. Ceremony. Reception.

Plus an inspiration grid your photographer can fill in before the day, and a photography map for the route between ceremony and reception.

200+ shot prompts. None of them generic.

Built so the second shooter knows what to chase while you're getting your veil pinned.

· 95 Pages ·

Open it.

Drag through the binder. The whole thing.

01 Binder cover
02 Table of contents
03 Wedding overview
04 Palette page
05 Wedding party
06 Vendors
07 Bridesmaid schedule
08 Detailed timeline
09 Photography map
10 Music cue sheet
11 Bridal suite checklist
12 Shot list, ceremony
13 Speeches
14 Menu
15 Signature drinks
16 Decor, ceremony
17 Ceremony floor plan
18 Seating chart

About Aladdin Films

We've been on the floor of California weddings for twenty years — first looks in Santa Barbara, vineyard ceremonies in Sonoma, late receptions in Los Angeles that ran past two in the morning. The binder isn't a planner's guess at what a wedding needs. It's the document we kept watching brides and Maids of Honour build from scratch at 6am, on napkins and Notes apps, the morning of. We rebuilt it once, properly, in a Canva file you can edit in an afternoon. Then we gave it away — because the planning has never been the part we cared about. The day itself is.

— Aladdin Films · 20+ Years Behind the Camera

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20+ Years of Award-Winning California Cinematography