How to Plan your Wedding without the Stress
If you haven’t figured it out already, wedding planning can be rather stressful. While it’s nearly impossible to completely remove all stressful parts of the wedding, we can try to make sure that you don’t spend your entire engagement wanting to rip your hair out. Here are some things to consider and do while wedding planning that will hopefully get rid of some stress.
Focusing on the Priorities
When first getting started with your wedding, it’s always a good idea to figure out exactly what you and your future spouse want to see happen on your wedding day. Sitting together and talking about some of the most important parts and the parts that you don’t acre about will help you know where to focus your attention and time. The other stuff will come, but it’s not going to be as much time/money devoted to it - which will help you stay organized and not so overwhelmed.
Do the Things that You Want
With wedding planning, there are going to be dozens of people that have their own ideas of how your wedding day should go. It’s important that you and your future spouse stick to your guns on the things that are important to you and make sure that your wedding is what you want. Sometimes, I will say it is easier to deal with your family if you bend over to include things that they want every once in a while, but make sure they know exactly what you will and won’t compromise on. Here is also a blog on how to deal with your pushy family members to hopefully help you out with this.
Delegate Tasks to Others
If you’re not too controlling, you can always ask your family, friends, or future spouse to help you out with certain things that would help to get off of your plate. If you’re worried about them potentially messing things up, make sure to give jobs that are smaller or that you think if you explain enough that they will get it figured out for you. I always suggest giving some planned deadline just so you have enough time to check in with them and see if they did what you needed. I’m sure your family and friends are just happy to help sometimes, so even if it’s really simple tasks like stuffing invites or putting together your wedding favors, they will be happy to have a hand in helping!
Guest List, Seating Chart, and RSVPs
One of the most stressful parts of planning your wedding is figuring out the logistics with your guests. Whether it’s knowing who to invite, where to seat them, or figuring out if they are even planning on coming, these parts are some of the most time consuming and annoying for sure. I have blog posts on how to figure out your guest list and how to manage your RSVPs as well as your seating chart to make sure that things are running as smoothly as possible.
Remember It Is What You Make It
Of course there are some things that are out of your control, but while wedding planning and for your actual wedding day, it’s important to remember that your mood will really affect how you look back on the day. Often times, even when things go wrong, the couples that laugh it off and stick together tend to have a lot more fun both actually planning and for the wedding day. Your guests can feed off of your energy, so if you’re not enjoying yourself and having a good time your guests will start to see and feel that too.
It is inevitable that you will feel a bit overwhelmed with your wedding planning process. The goal is that you can eliminate some of the common things that people are stressed about to make sure you have the most opportunity to enjoy yourselves throughout the planning process and the actual wedding day. Remember, this is a day to celebrate you and your love, so if it gets too overwhelming you can always reach out to your wedding planner or coordinator for some advice or help!
Let me know if things are stressing you out here. I would love to help you manage the details of your wedding so you can actually enjoy the wedding day!
