Tips For A Stress Free Wedding Day Planning

Enjoy and Have Fun Planning Your Wedding Day – Stress Free

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Stress can put a damper on any relationships and even on love. Planning a wedding can be fun or it can be stressful. After all, the newly engaged couple is faced with a huge project. They have to plan a ceremony and a reception. Most have never done either. You must eliminate stress, instead, enjoy and have fun planning your wedding day completely stress free.

The typical stress causing aspects are:

Having to create a budget and spent more money than they have ever spent before,
Having lots of tasks to complete by a specific date,
Having to obtain the products and services for their wedding,
Having, yet not knowing how to interview and hire wedding vendors, professionals and service providers whom they never met,
Trying to please too many people with different ideas about the wedding.
Instead of starting to plan the wedding as early as possible, leaving details for the last minute.
Letting planning their wedding take over their lives.
Instead of concentrating on their main objective that is to get married to the one they love best in the world, they concentrate on having the PERFECT wedding. Setting expectations that are too high will create frustration and stress.

* The biggest secret to a successful wedding is to not worry too much. Have fun planning and enjoy your special day. Do not expect “perfection”. Expect a wonderful celebration day. You are dealing with people and lots of variables. Some things may go wrong; realize that if something does go wrong only you and the people concerned with it will know about it. The best way to minimize the possibility of things going wrong, is to plan carefully, keep records, have signed contracts, stay focused and on track and confirm diligently.

Our wedding day 45 years ago was exciting and overwhelming for us. Yours will most probably be the same for you. The funny thing is that the only memories of the actual day that often come to mind, are the things that went wrong. All other memories came with the aid of photographs. The things that went wrong became and still are chuckles. Imagine having the Master of ceremony announce that your wedding cake is “Now being served” and you have never seen it, never cut it and never fed each other a slice of it. We were lucky because ours was an afternoon event and the reception site was booked for an evening wedding. After my father in law raised the roof, the venue manager agreed to bring the cake ordered for the evening and two slices of cake so that we could take pictures and feed each other, but requested us not to cut the cake. Since the cake we ordered, with then a price tag of $300.00, we figured that they did not fulfill their contract and did not provide the cake we paid for. Well, you guessed correctly. We DID cut the cake and fed each other from it. We still laugh when we think of this mishap.

The typical bride and groom picture their wedding the way they want it. Sounds familiar? The key is to visualize all of your details clearly in your minds, and stay focused on what you want.

List down all the details and compare with the forms in the planner. Whether you do them yourselves or delegated them to someone you trust, make sure that they get done the way you want them. When completed, mark them DONE.

Most brides and grooms read books, magazines, search and research the Internet. After all their efforts, they realize that there is too much information out there, which quite often conflicts with itself. They become confused, frustrated and stressed.

Many brides and grooms fear that they will forget something important. This planning organizer is all you need to stay focused, organized and manage your time wisely while planning. You may add pages to your binder on which to write each idea you came up with and everything you did. Also take the time to keep your planning organizer up to date by checking off things that are done.

The wedding planner and organizer will keep you focused, and on track with every step of the way documented in writing for safe keeping and will allow you to take some time to enjoy each other and strengthen your relationship and love.

So,

· Give Yourself Plenty of Time and Get Organized

· Delegate Tasks and responsibilities

· Do not worry about the Small Stuff

·Have a Backup Plan for every aspect of your wedding

Create, Schedule and Follow your TO DO LIST

The Calendar

The calendars and the To -Do lists go hand in hand and should always be available to you. Not only your appointments but your To-Do lists are stress reducing, time sensitive tools. You will be relaxed if you know what needs to be done, when. Whether you need to make a phone contact, set an appointment or go to interview a potential vendor, professional or service provider, you need the information at your finger tips. It is better to enter too much information than not enough. If you contacted a vendor, write down your FIRST impression. This will help you later with your selection. If you received recommendations enter them too and so on. Do not forget to also mark the calendar with the dates and times of special celebrations honoring you and your upcoming wedding.

The To Do Lists

Planning a wedding is laden with details large and small. Our Keepsake Wedding Planner To-Do List should keep you on track and relaxed. You will want to check out many magazines and catalogues, visit wedding related web sites, purchase items, contact a myriad of professionals, vendors and service providers, set up meetings with your wedding attendants, just to name a few. Always keep your To-Do lists with you. Pressure builds when you do not know what needs to be done when, and it becomes very stressful if you realize that you forgot a task altogether. Be ready to add your ideas for tasks you need to accomplish and have fun marking the ones you completed.

About Bridal Shows

In addition to using this Wedding Day Planning Manual and Organizer, we recommend that both, brides and grooms attend Bridal Show sometimes called Bridal Expo. Whether your local Bridal Shows are large or small, in hotels, convention centers, wedding facilities or elsewhere, plan to go. You will get a chance to meet wedding vendors, professionals and service providers. At the show, you can see, touch, feel and if there are caterers and bakers presenting, even taste their offerings. Each of them will be competing for your business. Most everyone will offer you special deals for signing up with them at the show “Show Specials” such as savings, buy or rent a certain number and get one free etc. If they do not succeed, some will ask you to write down your and your wedding information so that they will be able to contact you later, while others will do so through a ruffle.

Though some Wedding Planners and wedding planning books suggest that you book at the show, DO NOT!

CAUTION!

Hire only after you have thoroughly interviewed at least 3 in each category, so you can compare. Before signing, be sure that you like them, trust them, fully understand their terms and agree with all that is included in their contract.