We're Not Lost, I know Exactly Where We Are......

Ok, so I am lost.  I've thought of stopping and asking for directions but with so many gas stations and pit stops along the way, it's overwhelming who's advice to trust.  To get literal here, with more wedding books, websites and magazines to shake a stick at, how does one decide which to fork the $20 over for in hopes that it will answer all questions from beginning to the end?  The real problem?  Even if I had the moola to swipe every how-to guide that line the shelves of bookstores far and wide, I wouldn't find just one that would give me the step by step that I'm looking for.  What I'm finding out, is that every wedding, like every person is different and where one may describe the time line I'm looking for, it may not be specific to my budget on how to get there.  Whether or not that makes sense to anyone other than myself, the bottom line is that I'm going to have to create my own wedding road map and it may have to be sketched and re-sketched before I get it right.  I started a blog on planning a wedding, yes, but never claimed to know what I was doing...