The easiest way to reduce stress when you’re planning your wedding is to get organized.

There are few things more frustrating when you’re working on your wedding than having to try to dig out contracts, proposals, fabric samples and brochures from the piles of paper and mail you may have strewn around your home or on a too-full desk.

With a quick trip to your office supply store you can easily become organized and greatly reduce the stress you may be feeling when planning a project as big as your wedding. An extra-large three ring binder and plastic sleeves to hold all of your important documents are great organizational tools. Use colorful dividers to arrange the major components of your planning: venue, attire, décor, gifts, honeymoon, transportation, and so forth.

Portfolio or Laptop Computer Tote

You also can find binder accessories specifically designed to hold a calculator, pens and pencils, business cards, promotional CDs, calendars, address books, hole punch, stapler, photos, and other important items you’ll want to bring with you when shopping or meeting with vendors. To add a touch of fun and class, try to find accessories in your wedding colors.

To add additional ease to your organization, toss your binder and any other items that you are most likely to need for your appointments into binders and folders that fit into a distinctively-styled and monogrammed tote bag. You’ll be calm, cool, collected, organized and chic. And isn’t that the way you always want to look when you’re planning your wedding?

What do you do to keep your records and wedding samples organized in a fun or colorful way? Add your favorites below!