Online Wedding Planning Guide

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.

The rest of the site, you won’t need. Because other people are more than willing to take over your wedding if you let them. You don’t have to put any attention or effort into getting people to bully you around to creating the wedding of their dreams.

It’s a little more effort (although about 90% of it is purely psychological effort on your part) to be sure that you get the wedding of YOUR dreams.

The Controllers

There are essentially two types of people who will try to take over your wedding, preventing the wedding of YOUR dreams. They are:

• Family members (including soon-to-be in-laws)
• Vendors

As you might think, handling these two types of "controllers" takes rather different approaches. Vendors are with you just for this wedding. Family you have to live with for the rest of your life!

You’ll find the topic of talking to family members (along with lots of other information) covered in this online wedding planning guide.

A third possible type of controller is a combination of the other two:

• friends or family who are providing services for your wedding.

This can be a little trickier, because you’re both dealing with them as a vendor and planning to have a relationship with them for the rest of your life. This requires a balance of the strategies used with family members and the strategies used with vendors.

You’ll need to think about these different strategies to find the right balance between treating a particular person as a vendor who is a friend/family member vs. a friend/family member who is doing you a favor by providing something you’d normally get from a vendor.

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