Planning a wedding is a huge endeavor that takes many months. With all the small (and big) things to consider, it can be easy to feel like you’re missing things. Once you’ve got the venue, the band, the guest list, the dress, the food, and the other big elements out of the way, there is still a multitude of small details that you will still have to contend with. To stop yourself from getting too stressed out, make lists of all the necessary things you still have to deal with and mark them with a timeline so that you feel more in control of the situation.
Here are some tips suggested by JJ’s House designer Jessica for getting wedding-ready for your big day.
- Build a wedding website
Wedding websites are becoming big business. They allow you to keep all the information about your wedding in one place, while providing your guests with everything from registries to information on where you met, to the schedule. You can set up wedding websites to also permit your guests to RSVP and choose their meals (and have a reminder sent to the email of their choice so they don’t forget whether it was chicken or fish).
- Arrange transportation
With all the excitement about the ceremony and the reception, you may forget that you need to get to the ceremony, and from the ceremony to the reception. While you don’t need to arrange some extravagant horse-drawn carriage, you also don’t want to end up walking. Have a guest or member of the wedding party drive you, or hire a limousine to transport the entire wedding party.
- Do some self-care
While you shouldn’t feel pressured to lose weight or to fit into a certain size by your wedding day, exercising can be a great way to relieve some of the stress of wedding planning. Even doing something like walking daily or taking up yoga is a great way to remember to take care of yourself, and to take a break from worrying about the planning. Exercise is also very beneficial for skin health and can help control breakouts.
- Finalize the readings
If you are going to be doing a reading during your ceremony or at the reception—or if you have members of the wedding party that will be—you should finalize these readings about three months out. This will give you time to make any final tweaks and to make sure no one decided to go wildly off-script. This is also a good time to discuss your expectations with your MC and any stories that you prefer not to have mentioned on your big day (or those you would!)
- Send your event schedule to the vendors
This is a tip that is often overlooked, but is very important! Your vendors need to know the day-of timeline just as much as any member of the wedding party. Send a finalized day-of timeline to your photographer, hairdresser, venue, caterer and anyone else that could be affected a few months before the wedding so they have time to discuss any concerns with you.
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I tried to memorize my reading for my son and his wife’s wedding. Hahahha that was a disaster for me because the second I got on the floor I forgot it all. All. Luckily it was written on a big scroll in front of me as well, lolol
Almost 13 years ago I planned my wedding and I wish we had done a destination wedding instead. I look back and I sought things and a venue that pleased my family and not myself.
It is very important that you take care of your needs before the big day, It’s always nice to have help and spread the work out so it’s not all on the bride and she has more time to self care.
My cousin is getting married on October and I know the preparation is bit stressful. I will share this with her.
Great tips – It can be so overwhelming those last few days! These are great tips on what to focus on.
I wish I have known these planning tips. When I planned my big day it was stressful but the good news is that I made it.
Having a website is definitely such a great idea. I love all of these planning tips!
There is so much work and planning that goes into a wedding. These suggestions are so helpful since there are so many details and decisions!
These tips go such a long way. There is a lot people miss to think about!
These are some fantastic prep tips – I love that wedding websites are a thing now. They are such a handy resource for everyone and make it much easier for all the information to be in one place.
so much to do for that big day, building a website is totally new to all
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I so wish wedding sites and smartphones were a thing when I got married. That would have made life so much easier to keep everything in one place.
Wedding is such a huge project and this is a great checklist. I didnt know building a wedding website will help too. We are really into a digital world now. This will certainly save a lot of time of communicating on the meal, rsvp etc.
Prior to the big day, its all about self care. I’m a big fan of letting the best maid handle the last minute details.
I’ve never planned a wedding before, but have attended some and I can tell that a lot of work goes into it. It seems like there is so much potential to forget something.
There is so much planning that goes into a wedding. It is so essential to remember self-care during the process. And building a wedding website is a great idea!