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Well, if you're embarking on the wonderful and often stressful task of planning a wedding, I'd like to offer you some suggestions to make your months of preparation more relaxed yet still preserving the excitation of the time. Planning properly will help you fend off the stress that so often comes with undertaking such a task. Proper wedding planning will help give you the Wedding Day experience you deserve!
You want to start the planning process with sufficient time before your wedding date to allocate your time with what needs to be done without making yourself frantic and stressed. Generally, the first thing you will do is settle on your date and the ceremony and / or reception venue. You'll be filling in the other details over time. The scheduling of the officiate, sending invitations and save-the-dates, arranging for the ceremony and reception music, catering, cake, your dress / his suit, will all be fit in. A smaller wedding or elopement will usually take less time to organize while a larger wedding or a destination wedding will usually take more time.
Wedding costs are a major concern to most couples unless you have wealthy families that are paying all expenses. There are so many ways to work within your budget by using good wedding planning and making sensible tradeoffs to keep the "must-haves" that are most important to you. As well as using a professional planner, there are a number of books on wedding planning available. These books generally have specific budgeting ideas to save you money, yet they also have many tips on the planning process itself.
A "planner book" is just what it sounds like. Whether or not you have a professional wedding planner or consultant, you will likely have a planner book. This book is like a scrapbook and a calendar in one. It is often white, lacey and bridal looking, as you will keep it as a memory of your wedding. The special calendar charts milestones in the planning process with places for all important notes, colors, vendor information, phone numbers, fabric swatches, etc. Using the planner book will help keep you organized with all your notes and jottings in one place. You can find one of these books in most greeting card shops. If you want, you can create your own planner book – Start with an ordinary scrapbook and incorporate a calendar of wedding milestones found in some of the magazines passing out at a wedding show.
Using a professional planner or consultant who knows the wedding business will save a lot of grief but will cost you. They will help you with allotting your time among all the minutiae and the questions, between the time you decide to get married and the Wedding Day. When do I go to caterer tastings or get my dress fitted? How much do I tip the DJ? Should the napkins be chartreuse or lavender? How do I seat the warring factions of the family? A professional planner will typically also be at your wedding for a good part of the day to help with the flow and the details.
In summary, to have a great Wedding Day and less stress along the way, proper planning is of the utmost importance.
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Source by Mindy Makuta
