Entries Tagged as '1. Introduction'

1. (d) Hand Over the Reigns … At the END

Even if you hire a wedding planner, don’t hand over the reigns to your wedding too early on. Not if you want to achieve the wedding of your dreams.

But as you’re getting down to the week or so before your wedding, the balance between the importance of planning your dream wedding and the importance of living your dream wedding will shift. It’s time to stop with the planning and start with the living.

However the planning won’t actually be finished a week or two before your wedding. Some of the most important things you have to do to make sure you get the wedding of YOUR dreams, to stop others from taking it over, have to be done right before your wedding. In fact, many of them have to be done the day before or the day of your wedding. But, repeat after me:

"I don’t want to be planning my wedding on my wedding day."

You want to be living your wedding on the day of your wedding. And if you can manage to start living your wedding several days or even a couple weeks before your wedding, even better.

The keys to being able to hand over the reigns in the right way and at the right time, will be described in my posts about Double-checking/Delegating and The Last Word (I’ll put live links here once those posts are written). Discover the rest of the story ...

1. (c) Give Yourself Time

To have the most flexibility, you should start your wedding planning anywhere from a year to eighteen months before you’d like to actually get married.

Wait! Don’t panic! People have successfully pulled together weddings that were just perfect for them with a few weeks or even a few days of planning. Discover the rest of the story ...

1. (b) Stand Strong Sister!

This is the key. Do you want the wedding of YOUR dreams? Or are you relatively happy if you get half the wedding that you want and half the wedding that other people think you should want?

If it’s the latter, well, okay then. You can use this book to keep you from feeling overwhelmed (by eating the elephant a bite at a time) and to help you know what questions to ask specific vendors. Discover the rest of the story ...

1. (a) Eating that Elephant

Have you ever heard about how to eat an elephant? The answer is "One bite at a time." It’s the same with planning something as elephant-sized as your wedding. Discover the rest of the story ...