The stress of wedding planning is a ground reality. Everyone wishes to appear wearing a fairy bridal dress, arms in arms, having a smile and pride on their faces on the biggest day of their life. Wedding day planning seems thrilling at first, but it is not a piece of cake. You can easily become a victim of wedding stress as soon as you feel pressured and no more enjoying the planning process.
According to a survey done on 50 couples, 43 percent said that wedding planning put a strain on their relationship. They don’t feel intimate as they do before engagement. If you feel stressed and anxious about planning for a wedding day, it is normal. But if you and your fiancé constantly fight, you feel annoyed because things are not turning the way you expected, then you must explore why is wedding planning so stressful for you?
Some common triggers that may haunt either a bride or groom and put extra stress on wedding planning are as follows;
- The realization that planning a wedding is a shockingly expensive affair no matter you opt for a grand or close gathering.
- Deciding and fighting over finances that who pays for what.
- The contradiction between expectations and reality in terms of dress, venue, decoration, etc.
- Not finalizing guest list according to budget and venue.
- Handling different sets of opinions from fiancé, in-laws, and parents.
- Overthinking about the actual wedding day.
- Trying to take charge of all wedding affairs on your own.
- Feeling lack of intimacy due to stress.
These are realities which turn a happy event like marriage into one of the stressful memory. But you don’t need to go through this at all. You can learn from the experiences of other couples that how to avoid stress in wedding planning and enjoy the stress-free wedding from planning to the actual big day while keeping intact the happiness, intimacy, and mental compatibility with your partner.
How to Deal with Wedding Planning Stress?
You cannot completely get rid of the stress of wedding planning. But do not be scared, we are here to tell you that how to make wedding planning less stressful. The most stressful thing in wedding planning is your budget and surprisingly higher price of venue, lighting, flowers, food, and photography. I don’t think that all couples get every element of wedding they wish.
Everyone has to compromise on various things. Wedding planning is the short trailer of practical married life where you have to face unknown realities and come to realize the background hard work of every successful event. Let us tell you how to plan for a stress-free wedding.
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How to Deal with Expenses?
For stress-free wedding planning, you need to know where to start planning and how to execute it step by step. Plan a meeting and write down a list of each thing you and your partner want to have on the wedding day. Set your budget and plan to be upfront with the vendors and tell them straight that this is the limit of your budget. In this way, they give the best options available in your budget.
That how you can avoid a fight with your partner by setting unrealistic expectations on the wedding day. Prepare a list of all vendors and show them the actual colors or floral design you want to avoid misunderstanding.
The Pressure of Family and Friends
If you want to deal with the pressure of family and friends and you want that no one gets annoyed in the ceremony, then create a guest list in the presence of parents and in-laws. Do not cut guests without telling them. Do not try to be the jack of all trades if you want to avoid the stress of wedding planning. You can incorporate your friends and close relatives, assign relatively less important but hectic tasks like stuffing and stamping envelopes, tracking RSVPs, delivering welcome bags, organizing the place cards, and alphabetizing the escort cards.
You can assign one of your close friends to assist the photographer in taking detailed shots of all important moments as well as capturing group photos of all guests during the ceremony. So that you can enjoy the big day with peace of mind.
I hope with these tricks, you can plan your dream day happily. To read about more wedding-related tips and tricks, keep visiting our website. You can also have regular notifications of our latest posts on Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram.
