How to Keep Your Sanity While Planning a Wedding

Don't try to plan your entire wedding alone. You won't be worth much on your wedding day if you're too frazzled and exhausted to enjoy it.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Wedding Planner Book
• Wedding Consultants
• Personal Organizers

1. Set realistic goals. You can't organize a formal wedding with 300 guests in two weeks.

2. Delegate. Let your mom, mother-in-law-to-be and bridesmaids, as well as your fiancé, handle some of the grunt work. Not only will you take some of the burden off yourself, but you'll also let others get involved and let them know that their opinions are valued. This effort is good for relationships.

3. Consider hiring a wedding consultant. They know what's what and who's who.

4. Make checklists for everything. Keep your plans organized.

5. Make time for yourself. At least once a week, do something just for you - take a bike ride, get a massage or manicure or hide in the tub with a paperback that has nothing to do with weddings.

Tips & Warnings

• Stay within your budget. Spending more than you planned will just create more stress.
• Keep your fiancé involved. It's his wedding too, and you don't want the additional headache of finding out a month before the wedding that he doesn't want to wear the cowboy hat you chose to match your dress.

on 11/22/2005 Aside from all the planning, remember why you are getting married. Don't let the stress of the wedding and the planning come between you and your groom. The love you have for each other is what you are celebrating. So remember to plan private and romantic time with the man you love.