Wedding Planning Advice – Top Five Ways To Have A Stress-free Wedding
Many brides seek out wedding planning advice, however few ask the simple question, how can I have a stress-free wedding? It doesn’t matter how beautiful your dress is or how elegant the venue if you haven’t enjoyed the process or aren’t able to enjoy your wedding day. The following are a few tips for reducing stress as you plan and celebrate your wedding.
1. Have the Right Attitude. Happy people have happy weddings. Stressed out people have stressful weddings. It’s important to see the wedding in context of your life. This will be a fabulous, romantic, extraordinary wedding as long as that’s how you view it. Your feelings are transferred to your family, friends and guests. Getting frustrated by every little detail is going to leave you feeling frustrated with the whole planning process and when your wedding day comes, you will be so focused on everything that’s not perfect, you won’t be able to enjoy all the beautiful, perfect moments that are happening around you. Don’t sweat the little stuff. Stay focused on taking care of yourself so you can enjoy the big day.
2. Decide on a Budget. Have a get-together with everyone involved in deciding your budget. This may include you and your fiancé, or the bride’s parents or both sets of parents. Do some research before the meeting of what the ballpark range might be for the budget, then discuss. Once the budget is set, even if it is lower than you had hoped for, embrace your budget. Know that is what you have to work with and go forward making your decisions based on that. This may require you to buy a dress that isn’t special order or make your own favors, but in the long run it is the best policy.
3. Cut the Groom Some Slack. About 85% of grooms find wedding planning as exciting as brides find Monday night football. So when you present him with two possible color schemes and he tells you he’s happy with whatever makes you happy, he really is. It’s not that he doesn’t care about you, he does. He really is happy seeing you happy. So make choices that make you happy and be grateful for having a man who loves you and is going to spend the rest of your life finding happiness in your happiness.
4. Don’t Second Guess Yourself. There is a saying, ‘first thought best thought.’ If you make a decision, be happy with it and move on to the next one. Trust your first instinct, whether that has to do with color schemes, dress, hair and make-up or venue. Second-guessing is only going to waste your time and stress you out. You will enjoy the process a lot more if you stay confident with your first decision and move on.
5. Setting the Tone for the Family. Families are an important part of any wedding celebration. It is a time for the bride to forget about past differences and be gracious, loving, thoughtful and caring. Choose to be the mature one and people’s responses will mirror yours. Even if they don’t, you can be satisfied knowing you took the high road. This may mean offering a hug to your father’s second wife who is two years younger than you and complimenting her dress. The more love you give, the more you will receive.
Your wedding day will come and go whether you follow this advice or not. However, to get the most out of your experience and your special day, let yourself be happy, enjoy it, and forget about stress.