Today marks the three-day anniversary of The Plunge's public existence. [Sniff.] Has it been so long? The time has really flown by.
The feedback has been mostly positive, but we do get the following question quite a bit. (By quite a bit we mean twice.) "Are you guys just full of satire and mocking? Are you 100% a joke-site?"
Absolutely not. Only 95%. We live by the motto "A spoonful of sarcasm helps the wedding planning go down," so we lace the site with irreverence, but yes, we'll admit it, there are plenty of actual, useful, constructive tools in here.
Which brings us to our newest feature.
Today, allow us to introduce The Plunge's Guest List spreadsheet. You can preview it and download it here.
As we mention in the guest list article, some things to keep in mind:
1) This is not a kindergarten spreadsheet. We're not effing around. It's easy to use, but it requires a little savvy. If you're lost, no sweat, we created a Help Screen (on second tab) to guide you.
2) Especially if you're not an Excel wiz, hover your mouse over the little red triangles--this will show the pop-up comments.
3) When you first open the spreadsheet, you might wonder, WTF, where's the stuff like "address," "zip," and all that horseshit? Click on the little "plusses" - way up top of the sheet - to expand some hidden columns.
4) Feel free to hack it, change it, make it your own. The founder of The Plunge used this system for his wedding and it worked like a charm, but you might have some additional tricks to throw in there. Go for it.
5) Once you've got a bunch of people in there--like over 50 or 60, say--it will be helpful to filter and sort the data. That's what the "auto-filters" are for - the little gray arrows in the title of each column. For instance, you can filter for only "Her Parents," or you can sort by people who have given you gifts. It's handy.
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