4 Tips for a Stress-free Wedding Planning

Planning your wedding can be oh-so-stressful – especially during the pandemic.

There are so many details to keep track of, and everything has to be perfect!

And of course, you also have to be careful and prioritize everyone’s health and safety.

Keeping your cool can help you save money, better plan out the details of your wedding, and ensure that everything goes off without a hitch.

If you don’t want to be a bridezilla on your big day, here are some things that you should do to pull off a stress-free wedding!

1. Be clear about your vision. 

Many couples find it helpful to write out what they envision for the big day. 

If you’ve already started drawing up plans, use these ideas as a starting point and feel free to ask for advice or input from friends and family members.

Think about what matters most to you – this is especially important if money’s an issue. 

If it’s not, great! 

Focus on creating a day that reflects your personalities and values as a couple, without going too overboard on stuff that isn’t terribly important to you (and everyone else). 

Balance is key here: go over the top if it’s important to you, but don’t sink yourself with the things that really don’t matter.

Make sure to take it one step at a time. 

Before you even think about anything else, decide on the date for your big day. 

The closer you get to having an available venue or date, the faster you’ll start to see openings in your planner.

Pick a place for your wedding – even if it is just a friend’s backyard – so you have something to aim for. 

Then figure out what has to be done before people will be allowed in that space:

Is there a rental fee? 

Is there a required amount of liability insurance? 

Is there an age limit on guests who’ll be allowed in? 

How much time will you have to decorate?

If you’re having a destination wedding somewhere other than your hometown, make sure you plan enough time for everything , from getting passports or visas, finding someone to watch your pets or houses, and figuring out all the little details about traveling without help from friends and family closer by.

It will also help a lot if you will assess what you have and what you need. 

Map out a budget, then assess your needs and wants for the wedding—and how they match up with that budget. 

If they don’t match up, figure out where you can make cuts, or ways to make yourself more comfortable at the same cost as originally planned.

You should also start budgeting your wedding while it’s still something far off; pick a number of guests who’ll make up your ideal guest list, add up how much it’ll cost to feed them (from invitations to favors), then add on what you think everything will cost (rentals, catering, music, booze). 

Double that number—that’s your total budget for your wedding.

2. Get organized 

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Keep an organized record of all the details of your wedding planning process in one place (website, Google doc, etc.). This will make it easy for you to know where everything is located when you need it most (i.e., three weeks before the wedding).

It’s important not to take on too many tasks at once because this can overwhelm yourself and other people involved with your wedding. Instead focus on two or three things at a time.

Get all the information you can about what you’re getting into. 

Read books, go to weddings with friends or family, talk to older couples. 

Ask people who have planned weddings before for advice or tips on how they made it work.

3. Be open to planning your wedding with others. 

Most couples find that they need help along the way, so don’t be afraid to ask for assistance when you’re feeling overwhelmed. 

This can be as simple as partnering up with another bride-to-be in order to save money on venues and favors or asking for advice from an older couple who’s been down the aisle before!

It won’t hurt to ask for help and advice.

Most people love talking about weddings (even if they’ve never been married themselves), and you’d be surprised at the useful information other brides can offer.

If you’re having an event that’s particularly complex, consider hiring a wedding planner. They’re not cheap, but neither is wasting your money on caterers who don’t show up or band members who are late to load in. Their services may seem pricey, but their expertise can save you—and your sanity—in the long run.

4. Stay calm 

If just thinking about planning a wedding makes you feel stressed, take some time to relax—spend some time with friends or family, go for a walk or simply sit still for a while. 

Planning an event this large can be extremely stressful if you let it get to you! As long as you stay level-headed throughout the whole process, everything will work out fine in the end.

Consider spending some time apart from your partner. 

Most of us spend more time with our partners than anyone else in our lives—so much so that if we don’t make some effort to do something different now and then, we’ll get used to each other’s habits and find ourselves facing a lot of arguments once we’re married! Take this opportunity to talk face-to-face with your best friend(s), mom, dad, siblings, etc., what your loved ones see as your “strengths” and your “weaknesses,” both as a couple and individually. 

These conversations should happen much earlier than when you’re walking down the aisle.

Have some distance from it all.

 If this is stressing you out too much already, put off making final decisions for as long as you can stand it… because there’s no reason why you (or anyone else) has to make them before the big day!

Trust your instincts , and remember that every decision doesn’t have to be perfect; instead, focus on choosing things that reflect what really matters to you. If you’re not sure about something, take a step back and really think it through before making a decision one way or another.

When it comes time to make actual wedding decisions , take your fiancé’s opinion into consideration—but remember that this is ultimately your special day, so choose things to reflect what will make you happy on the big day!

Enjoy yourself! You’ve put together all of this hard work so that on your big day, the only thing everyone sees is how happy you are to be marrying your best friend.

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