Planning a wedding does not have to be stressful. You can be the sweet, wonderful bride to be instead of the overly stressed out one. How? Easy. Get organized and stay that way. Conquer the tasks and know what needs to be done. Where do you start? Start at the beginning.
Planning your wedding starts with announcing your engagement. First you need to decide how to announce the big news! Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Some of the more popular ways to announce your engagement include having an engagement party, sending out traditional engagement announcements, announcing in the newspaper and even utilizing social networking sites. Many brides combine more than one, like having an engagement party and listing the announcement on pages like MySpace and face book.
Being engaged is great, but there are differences between saying you are getting married, you are getting married next spring or you are getting married on May 18, 2011. Having a date makes it feel less abstract and more real. One of the most important decisions you and your fianc will make in the early days of your engagement is setting the date. So how do you choose your date? There are many ways. Sometimes people already know when they want to get married, they have the date picked out based on a holiday wedding, a tradition, or a date that means something special to the couple.
However, if you do not know that date you are getting married and there are no special dates or holidays that you want to get married on it is time to decide when you do want to get married. Narrow down your choices. Make a decision on the time of the year or the season and go from there. Once you narrowed it down to a year and season or month look at that timeframe and eliminate any dates you want to avoid. These would include holidays you don’t want to be married on, birthdays and anniversaries of potential guests as well as any days that bring negative feelings to you, your fianc or your families.
If you have already announced your engagement and set the wedding date it is time to finalize your budget. No one wants to think about their wedding budget, but it is important to know how much money you have to spend or you might run out of money before everything is planned and paid for.
The ceremony site is important. This is where you walk down the aisle and get married to your fianc in front of all your family and friends. There are many choices of places to say I do. You can get married in a church, an outdoor garden or another outside location, a restaurant, a hotel or a private home. What you choose will affect the feel of your wedding. Each possible ceremony site would affect your wedding. When choosing where you will have your ceremony think about what kind of wedding you want if you want something classic, romantic, modern or something else entirely. When choosing your ceremony site think about how you want it to be decorated and determine if this is easily done, do this before signing any contracts.
Choosing the reception site is similar to choosing your ceremony site. The reception and ceremony sites should be able to add to each other or seem like they belong together. It is great if you can easily decorate each the same or similar so the events feel linked.
Planning your wedding may seem daunting at first, but once you become organized and start thinking about what you have to do it really isn’t that hard. Just remember the basics. Keep the planning simple, focus on what needs to be done but try not to overstress and get organized. Make lists, check them off. Read and research online and off about weddings, wedding planning and talk to whoever you can about their own weddings and experiences.
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