There are times that we try to simplify tasks for people so much that we make things more complex than they really are. Our eldest girl is getting married later in the year. She has been with her partner for twenty four months and she still has not started planning for the wedding. This is driving us crazy. I am a take control kind of mother. I don't care where the wedding is or what dress she wears or anything like that, I do need to make sure progress is being realized in the planning of her wedding day in good time.

My daughter has always been very much like her Dad. Not a details Man at all, he waits to the last second to plan anything. I try hard not to meddle in my daughters life, but when it comes to her wedding, I wont let her leave it to the last minute. When she first announced her engagement she told us they would wait two years for the wedding day due to her Man finishing school. I couldn't help myself. I bought her a wedding planner book to help her remember the details that go with planning a wedding. I went to pick out the book and was amazed at the different wedding planner books on the market. They have books for every conceivable time period and for hundreds of different themed weddings. I looked through several of the wedding planner books and decided on a book that was modern. It included how you could apply social networking, social media and the internet to enhance a wedding day celebration. This modern approach was what I thought closely represent the kind of wedding I thought my social networking mad daughter would want to have. I gave her the book and she promised to read it if I didn't bug her about the details. She made it very clear that if she needed or wanted my help she would ask me for it.

My husband and I were asked over to her place for dinner dinner with her and her fiancé. I told my husband that I was going to see if I could not get her to share some of the details about the wedding, or at least get her talking about what had been done and what needed to happen. They had set a firm date, but I do not know if it was set based on personal reasons and a preferred date or if if the date they set was because they could book the reception hall and church. When we arrived at her place I noticed the wedding planner book was on the coffee table in the TV room. To my relief it looked like she had used it quite a bit. I made reference to how warn the book looked and as I did she seemed very proud to announce they had rented a reception hall, called a caterer, reserved the church and that they were in the process of picking out wedding invitations.

Not only that but they had published a web page she had published all about the big day. The page included videos showing a band that would be playing wedding live entertainment, she had also plugged in a music player that was playing the wedding ceremony music. The page included survey questions that asked guests which menu they preferred. She had even included a photo album for people to view photo's of the venue, food and the honey moon destination.

She was so proud to show us how guests receive electronic wedding invitations that she herself had designed and how they linked through to her wedding page where guests could see who else was invited and who had confirmed attendance.

The application included event planning & management tools including a Event planning check list.

Watch the video here; http://www.eventslisted.com/prelaunch/invitations-guest-lists-rsvp.php

It was so nice, the page had so much personality to it, just looking at it gave me a sense the wedding day was going to be something very special.

I was so happy to see my baby shinning with joy because she felt really good about herself for accomplishing all these things on her own.

I was great to see my baby had grown up and I was happy that I hadn't spoiled the process by interfering.