Style Me Pretty is probably the most popular wedding blog there is. Packed full of luscious real wedding photos, staged shoots, and other inspirations, any couple looking for ideas is sure to find them (and get overwhelmed and need talking down – but that’s a whole ‘nother Oprah). There are a few gorgeous weddings of ours featured. And we’ve got the badge to prove it!
Enjoy.
Planning a wedding is exciting, but overwhelming. It’s easy to let the big event overtake your whole life- but there are ways to stay calm and take it one step at a time. Let’s learn some successful strategies for making wedding planning manageable.
photo by Max & Friends
Being engaged is a joyous time – make sure you breathe and savor the interlude! Once the streamers are tossed and the DJ has packed up her records, chances are you’ll remember the process as much as the day itself. Enjoy the journey.
Be well, and love well.
Dinah
Planning your wedding? Or any special event? Good rule of thumb: Assume Nothing.
Really! Nothing. Always specify (in writing if possible) what you’ve planned for, asked for, paid for, hoped for and wished for.
Especially when it comes to hopes and wishes, please please please don’t expect partners, fiancées and vendors to read your minds. Much to my disappointment (what I wouldn’t give to see inside the minds of the Mother In Laws..) people do not acquire psychic powers during the wedding planning process. Here are some examples of assuming gone awry:
Don’t say to an honor attendant going to your wedding rehearsal: “I’ll see you there” and assume you actually will. In her mind (she’s the rowdy one) you’ll see her there…perhaps after the wedding, hung over from a night out clubbing.
Don’t say to your caterer: “I love beef, so just be creative” and assume you’ll get a lovely beef entreé, just like you imagined. Your caterer really is creative, and has always harbored a wedding planning fantasy: a reproduction of the Venus De Milo made out of steak tartare.
Don’t say to your brother, “Yes! Make a toast! Funny childhood stories and such” and then be surprised when he tells the guests about you stuffing your bra, or pretending to be ringmaster of the circus. At nineteen.
So you catch my drift. Assume nothing! Make it all very clear, and then enjoy the result of your very-well-communicated labors: just the wedding you wanted.
Be well and love well.
Dinah
