Sometimes wedding planning is so stressful, you just need to meditate.
Why can’t wedding planning be more FUN?!
You could elope, or go out and sing karaoke with 10 of your friends. Otherwise you are into the extracurricular activity known as: Wedding Planning!
Doesn’t mean it can’t be a fun, even memorable, process.
The #1 Problem With Brides:
SEE ABOVE mentioned extracurricular activity. That’s right. On top of everything else we have to do in our Lives, planning a wedding can add extra hours, stress, and concern.
There’s a lot to enjoy. All the dreaming, looking at options. Too much information and it can get overwhelming. And there IS a lot of information. But being free to pull from a variety of resources is a good part of the process. It’s getting it down to your top choices, and then making the final choice that can be difficult. Difficult only because there is a limited amount of time leading up to a fixed date.
Give yourself a break, you deserve the best outcome. It’s not something you do everyday, planning a wedding. Pick a good team and stay involved.
I think sometimes because of our day to day Lives we can let stuff slip by, or ignore the priority. But hey, when you find the things you are passionate about, nothing can stop you.
The #2 Problem With Brides:
Grooms!
Guys you’re not expected to go gaga over color themes. In fact by the time my wife and I got to picking linens, I was: “Enough already with the choices!”
Don’t get me wrong. I’m in the wedding industry and I see a lot of the good and the bad. And I LOVE a room when it all comes together. But being faced with a million choices, wanting to make my wife happy, and getting the best result from the products and services we chose. Whew!
Best advice I can give you is the same as the first. Give the grooms a break, but find what they’re passionate about. Every couple has their unique strengths as a team. Delegate, divide and conquer. And remember to stick by each other.
It’ll be fantastic!
The #3 Problem With Brides:
Timing. You can have the best set of choices put together. But if they’re not timed right, you could dilute the intended effect or plain miss the opportunity.
There’s no hard set time that something needs to happen at a reception. Just make sure all the VIPs are in the room and it’ll happen. But take too long, or run too late, and you risk being up against the clock that won’t stop.
Be imaginative, and then let your magicians make it a reality.
The #4 Problem With Brides:
Every bride is different. Every successful celebration came to be because of something that came from the desire in the heart of the couple. When I give advice to Couples planning a wedding, and looking for a DJ, I give them advice from my experience, from the experience of my clients. But I fit it to their needs.
Even if something does not go as planned, you will make a good (dare I say maybe even better) thing from it. All those problems, but not this one.
Have you encountered any problems? What’s given you the most sleepless nights?