Keep a couple options in mind when selecting your Wedding Notebook.
(1) When you're removing pages and passing them out, it's nice to have a small, wire-bound notebook with smooth perforations. This notebook type is also the easiest to keep on your person at all times. However, if you choose this notebook, you'll have to supplement it with a folder in which you can insert pictures you tear out of bridal magazines, copies of formal letters you send out, and vendor contracts that come in.
(2) A three-ring binder with some blank insert pages takes up more space in your briefcase but allows you to have one location where you write notes and file incoming paperwork. You can supplement it with all kinds of insertable pockets and magazine hangers, etc. You can do just about everything with a notebook these days, but it will be bulky. Decide whether you'd rather organize with one tool (a binder) or two (notebook and folder).
(3) A lot of your wedding planning is best done on the computer. A spreadsheet program (like Microsoft Excel) lets you make a list of every person you're thinking of inviting and then columns in which you can denote whether you've invited them, they've RSVP-ed, they've sent a gift, you've sent a "Thank You" note for the gift, etc. Tracking these kinds of things on a computer is great, but it doesn't negate the need for a Wedding Notebook, in my opinion, because you can't carry your computer around with you. You'll need to print out the data that you've put in your computer files, and once you do that, you'll need something to keep it safe and organized in: the Wedding Notebook.
Even if you have a personal organizer, which essentially is a computer you can carry around with you, I believe you still need a Notebook to store in-coming paper (contracts, magazine pages) and to allow you to give hand out information to others. When personal organizers come with teeeeny tiny printers, they'll be awfully close to ideal. Maybe magazines will be all digital by then, and you won't need a Wedding Notebook at all. I'll probably cry if that happens.
Source: Leather Notebook, Stationery
