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 ...
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. 