Surviving Your Wedding Planning
February 5th, 2010
Is wedding planning taking over your life? Are your waking hours spent surfing and worrying about the exact details, the absolute shade of a colour that is so incredibly important that your life nearly depends on it! Please Stop! take a break and think about what is really important for your wedding day.
I was inspired to write this blog because of a phone call from a very stressed groom to be. The whole wedding experience was getting too much and he just wanted the day to be over. This is not the way to build a good foundation for your marriage or to get your fiance to look forward to your very special day.
Your wedding is about telling the world that you are devoted to the man of your dreams and you want to spend the rest of your life with him. Its not about making sure that your guests note the hues of the various colours of flowers, or that the wine has to be the most expensive, or the entertainment has to be better than the wedding you went to last week. The day of your dreams should be about declaring your love and showing your friends and family why you are so great together. I totally understand you want it to be wonderful and magical and that your guests enjoy the whole experience. But! its much better that your guests went home saying wow! how fantastically happy they were, the wedding was so them!
So here is my advice for surviving the whirlwind of wedding planning.
- Make sure you have one night a week to spend with your fiance that is wedding free. No mention of “W” word at all.
- Make a list of your priorities. What you really want for your wedding. This will focus your attention and may help stop you surfing for hours and then wondering what you have just been doing.
- Make sure you keep all your paperwork together. It will keep you organised and you will feel in control. I can highly recommend the Wedding Bible Planner. My best friend bought me one of these and I just loved it. (It was before I became a wedding planner).
- Bite sized chunks is the way to attack wedding planning. Put three or four things that you need to do on a list and then focus on them. Making a huge list is very daunting and you won’t know where to start. Keeping your list short and updated will focus your attention.
- Enlist the help of your friends and family. Involving them will really make them feel part of your day and reduce the amount of work for you.
- Remember keep perspective!! Take a break when it gets too much. Do something completely different or make yourself take a few days off from the wedding planning.
If you are recently engaged and don’t know where to start with your planning. Why not consider booking one of our Genie For An Evening Sessions. I guarantee at the end of it you will have the confidence to plan your own wedding. Its a fun way of getting started and you will receive your very own road map designed around your wedding day plans. Call or contact us to book a date.
Until next time, happy planning.
Tags: Planning, Tips & Advice
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