2009-08-17 08:30:00 by TALENEVENTS
Smart Bride Planning: 10 Tips to Keep You Sane!
Congratulations! You are engaged! Now it’s time to start the planning process that will take you to your perfect day and we’re here to help! That's why we've asked our friends at Talen Events to provide some tips and tricks to help couples like you plan your wedding. To start off, here are ten tips to help you maintain your sanity from now till your special day!
Follow our tips below and watch yourself go from this:
to this!:
- Expectations Check! Sit down with your partner and identify what you want the day to mean for the both of you. Weddings can be an emotional process for all involved so take the time to think this through so that other people's hopes and dreams don’t determine what your wedding day will be.
- Organization is Key! Buy yourself a binder to keep everything for the wedding in one spot. Organization is very important – remembering all the little details can be next to impossible for such a big event.
- Focus on your marriage and not just the wedding day, it is only one day and you have the rest of your lives together.
- Stay Healthy! Join a yoga class and make sure you take time out to stay healthy. Not only will this help you get in shape for the wedding, but it will also help you stay centered and relaxed.
- Delegate! You can’t plan a wedding all by yourself! Find some close friends that can help you run errands and keep everything in check. Ask your partner, after all, it's their wedding day too.
- Take Notes! Keep a notepad beside your bed. All the little details tend to come out in the middle of the night, we know, it happens to us! Just remember, there is nothing you can do in the middle of the night, so write down what you need to do or a new wedding idea and deal with it in the morning.
- Have a Date Night! Take a day for you and your partner to do something that is non-wedding related; planning a wedding can be very stressful. So enjoy each other for a night out, we know you deserve it!
- Vent! Vent! Vent! Every wedding has its frustrations, and you don’t have to be a “Bridezilla” to feel them. Find a friend who you can talk to and will just listen; talking and getting your stress out in the open will help to alleviate it.
- Have Fun! Remember when you were a little, and you thought about how fun your wedding day was going to be? Try to look through at your day through the eyes of your little self and have fun with it! Enjoy the process of planning a wedding, it will go by fast and before you know it you will be putting on your dress and walking down the aisle.
- Relax! Accept that no wedding is ever perfect, things will not run on time, a problem might sprout up here and there… but only you know the master plan of your wedding day, your guests don’t! No one will notice if something is wrong, unless you make a big deal about it.
If you need a guide of to planning a wedding please check out our blog for a free downloadable guide.
Until next time, happy planning
Amalia & Tiffany
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Amalia Ward and Tiffany daSilva created Talen Events with a focus on living a green lifestyle. We are an environmentally conscious event firm in Ontario dedicated to creating unique events that highlight and preserve the environment. Eco-friendly & casually elegant...just like you.
