Wedding Planning can be stressful! Here are 10 Tips from Pennywell Events on how to Reduce Your Wedding Planning Stress!
Figure out each of your Top 3 Priorities for the wedding
and start with those when planning. Once you have those top items discussed and then planned, the rest of the planning will become a lot easier.
2. Make 2 budgets:
Your absolute max and where you want to ideally be financially, then plan everything with the lesser budget in mind. Giving yourself the financial wiggle room will save you a lot of stress especially at the end for any unexpected expenses.
3. Give yourself the option to hire a Wedding Planner or Event Coordinator.
There are a lot of good reasons to hire a planner, not just to help you plan the wedding, but a good planner can also save you a lot of money and headaches. If you want to be able to plan the wedding yourselves but feel you would not want to be in charge on the wedding day, consider an Event Coordinator also known as a Wedding Coordinator/Day-of or Month-of Coordinator.

4. Set aside time for date nights and weekends away with your fiancé where you agree to not discuss anything wedding related.
After the wedding, you will have your entire lives together to build a future. Make sure that your relationship and your future vision doesn’t end at the conclusion of your wedding day.
5. Limit your time on sites like Pinterest, TikTok, and other planning sites
that will present you with a ton of ideas for your wedding with no budget or context behind those photos and videos. Without context, you won’t know if it was a styled shoot or a real wedding with guests or what the budget was for that particular display.
6. Read Every Contract.
If you have a Wedding Planner, ask them to look over any vendor contract before you sign it and present you with any industry red flags they come across before putting down a deposit or signing a contract. If you are not working with a planner, have a few of your more legal savvy people read through the contracts with you to have another set of eyes on things before committing your money and your peace of mind.

7. Make a list of big moments that you are looking forward to on the big day.
Not as a checklist to chisel in stone, but to remind you of the excitement and joy of why you are getting married and planning a wedding.
Is it your first dance with your new spouse?
What about the moment your mom or dad sees you fully dressed on your wedding day?
Are you excited to have all of your best friends together again for the first time in ages?
Are you vibrating with joy imagining that after all this time that your partner and yourself will be able to share your love with the world as a married couple?
8. Give yourself the gift of peace by limiting who you take with you to do planning things like picking out your dress/outfit for the wedding day, picking out your venue, and especially who you bring to your tasting with your caterer. Having nine different opinions over one thing is like trying to get everyone at the table to agree on one appetizer and one drink for all. Instead pick the people you know will be helpful and have your best interest in mind without putting their dream day ahead of your own vision.
9. Practice ahead of time.
If you are planning to wear a real bow-tie, practice tying it months ahead of the wedding day. If you are going to do a choreographed dance, practice it in class or in your kitchen. And for those who are writing their own vows, practice those too.

10. Time, give yourselves the gift of time when you can.
Spend time with one another’s families ahead of the wedding, they’ll be your family soon, too. Spend time creating new weekend plans that you carry out with friends and neighbors after the wedding, so that you don’t feel like you’ve run out of plans after the big day. And give yourselves time on the wedding day. You can have time for private vows, first looks, a private meal together (I highly recommend those last two), but schedule yourselves time throughout the day to hold hands and laugh or cry together without an audience.
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