If you're reading this, then you're probably getting close to having your own wedding and starting to feel the stress that comes along with it.
I always thought that it was really funny how the most important day can end up becoming the most stressful experience of your life.
Luckily for me and my wife we didn't end up letting all of the to-do lists and other things become so overwhelming that it made us into irritable and stressed people, but it could have easily been a lot worse if we weren't careful.
The reason that I wanted to write this is to hopefully pass along some of the reasons why I feel our wedding planning and wedding weekend went so smooth (well, most of it at least) and how we dealt with things that could have easily made us freak out more than we did.
Start Your Planning Early This is a no-brainer, right? Bot if you talk to most couples it isn't.
You'd be surprised how many couples wait until there is about 4-6 months left before their wedding to really start kicking their planning into gear.
Lucky for my wife and I we were engaged only nine months before our set wedding date, so we didn't have a whole lot of time to slack and screw around.
I think that's one of the issues that a lot of couples have -- they have so much time before their actual wedding date that they feel like they don't need to get started yet and that they have plenty of time left.
Of course, once a few months burn right by they're behind on their planning before they know it and everything they want to reserve is already booked up.
That's right about when the stress starts kicking in.
Don't Freak Out About Little Decisions As a couple you're bound to have different opinions on a lot of different things, but one thing that you should never do is argue about smaller decisions about things that really don't matter that much.
Getting all worked up about what color of napkin holders you're going to have isn't really worth it and both people in the couple need to choose their battles wisely if the wedding is going to go forward as planned.
Ask People To Help Why get all stressed out about everything when there are plenty of friends and family who are willing to help you out with everything? There is a lot of stuff to plan and to execute once your wedding weekend comes around and as you start getting some things done you're going to need some others to chip in.
This shouldn't be a problem as most family and friends are more than willing to help you out, but they're definitely not going to help if you never ask.