Planning Your Wedding? Here Are Five Key Tips You Should Know
You’re engaged! What now? Aside from obsessing over your ring and retelling your proposal story, planning the big day will be your next priority. It’s natural for a newly engaged couple to feel overwhelmed by the sheer number of things to organize before the big day, especially when selecting your wedding DJ, but it can also be a lot of fun! Even with all the resources available, finding genuine advice can be challenging. Thus, here are our top five tips to make your wedding experience as stress-free as possible.
Caution While Discussing the Wedding with Family and Friends
It is normal to discuss the intricacies of your wedding with your closest friends and family members; nevertheless, we believe it is ideal to keep the guests in the dark as much as possible before the big day. You may not realize it, but when you reveal specifics like your first dance music or the amount of money you want to spend on flowers, you open the door to criticism of your choices.
When it comes to the more opinionated members of your group, as well as those who are prone to worrying, it is beneficial to remain silent about the details of the day to avoid conflict and dissatisfaction. Keep a catchy one-liner in your back pocket in case someone presses you for further information. Use phrases like “We want to keep it a surprise” or “You’ll just have to wait and see on the day!” to achieve the desired effect. Oh, and we should also point out that exceptions should, of course, be made for vital information that affects the safety or enjoyment of your guests’ day!
Determine Your Priorities in Advance
Before you start planning your wedding, you and your future spouse should sit down and discuss the kind of ceremony you want to have. Consider the environment and energy you want to create and visualize the perfect party or gathering in your mind. You should be able to quickly determine what is most important to you. Try to agree on three or four priorities with your spouse and stick to them.
It’s usual for engaged couples to prioritize entertaining their guests, reducing stress so they can relax and enjoy their wedding day, and throwing a party that represents their personalities; but, if owning a pair of designer shoes is at the top of your list, that’s great, too! If you take the time at the outset to identify a few priorities that are most important to you, you may get a head start on your budget and have something to refer to later when facing tough decisions.
Learn the Art of Budgeting
Since wedding costs can quickly spiral out of control in the absence of a detailed wedding budget, this is an important step to take regardless of your spending. We’ve included a step-by-step tutorial on how to determine the cost of your wedding, which is a great place to start (remember, we recommend budgeting 12.5% of your entire budget to cover unanticipated expenditures). Following that, you should create a strategy for keeping track of your expenses; spreadsheets are perhaps the most popular way nowadays. I’ll be completely honest with you: Only a small percentage of engaged couples can keep their wedding expenditures within their budget. However, if you are diligent in keeping track of your expenses, you will have a far better chance of success.
Give Guests the A-B-C-D Treatment
It may seem tough, but the most efficient and easy approach to make your wedding guest list is to split all your close friends and family members into four groups based on how essential it is to you for each of them to be present: an A-List, a B-List, a C-List, and a D-List. Okay, so that’s a bit of a brazen approach, but the alternative, which is to write a list of everyone you know and go over it with a red pen, isn’t any nicer and takes twice as long. This feature guides you through the process of utilizing the A to D List technique and gives you some useful hints on where friends and family members should be placed on each list.
Drop Anything That Doesn’t Resonate
Weddings, like other sorts of celebrations, frequently follow a pattern, and as impersonal as it may seem, adhering to that pattern will be extremely advantageous throughout the wedding planning process. However, integrating a hand-fasting ceremony because many of your friends did, or making a speech when you despise public speaking, serves no purpose. Both of them are entirely needless.
Thus, you should go ahead and remove certain components of the wedding, such as the bridesmaids’ clothes, the photo booth, the bouquet toss, or even the color white, if you have a strong desire to do so. Nobody will be unhappy because your day will be a bit out of the ordinary. They will enjoy the wedding even more since it is personal to you and your beloved. However, when dealing with issues that have a substantial influence on your visitors’ experiences, you should approach them with considerable caution. You are allowed to be as creative as you like, for example, with the food offered; nevertheless, it is critical to ensure that everyone has enough to eat!