Planning without the Internet

Yesterday I shared my parents' wedding book, which included a guestbook as well as a scrapbook full of memorabilia from both their wedding and honeymoon, and left you in suspense as to what else was included. I'm guessing from the title you probably know, but this was also my mom's wedding planning binder.
It started with a guest list, which to protect privacy I won't be showing, but here is at least the number count.
There's her registry list, which is quite a bit different than the online registries we have today. Except looking at the actual items listed (Kitchenaid Mixer, Cuisinart food processor) it looks incredibly similar to mine. It's funny when registering I never really thought what type of impression our choices would make on our future children, but just seeing "sea foam green" towels brings me back to the towels I always used growing up.
There's her timeline, showing what to do both 6 and 3 months out, as well as in the month before. (The monkeys in the corner look to be a stamp, and if you look there's a cut-out from Brides magazine as well.)
There's a budget page. (How would you like to be spending $25 on flowers or $55 on invitations? Cheap for 1982 I'm sure, but probably impossible now.)
There's a day-of schedule, which actually seems pretty consistent with a 2012 wedding.
My parents didn't have a caterer, which means my parents cooked most of the food themselves. And if you're cooking food, you have to have a grocery list (I'm guessing these are the ingredients for potato salad.)
And if you're cooking the food, you need to have your recipes, right?
Going from the reception to the actual ceremony, there's a list of verses. (No idea which of these if any were actually used.)
As well as a list of various wedding traditions.
My mom sewed her actual dress, so there's a small sketch, I'm guessing where she designed it, which looks pretty close to how it actually turned out.
There's a make-up "pinterest board."
As well as a board for flowers.
I know this post has gotten almost ridiculously long, but I'm just in awe of all of this. (And actually there's a few pages I wanted to share that didn't make the cut.)

Going through all of this is just so bittersweet though. Looking at all these pictures, seeing page after page of my mom's handwriting, you know how much work she put into it all. And I can only imagine how much she would be doing today, if she was still here. Looking through it the first time brought me to tears, but now when I look at it I'm just impressed and amazed at how much is actually in this single book.

Part of me feels like in 2012 we have it easy being able to plan our internet online. Except part of me wishes all my planning was in a single place, where it lasts as time capsule preserving almost every aspect of my parents' wedding day.

Would you be willing to give up the convenience of doing on your planning online in order to have something physical that has it all in one place? And do you have any idea what type of planning your own mother put into planning her wedding?