Help For Pre-Wedding Stress
June 2nd, 2006 Posted in Wedding Planning and Ideas
As you will quickly discover, wedding planning does have its stresses! However, don’t let planning your big day lead to tension and frustration between you and your fiance.
Although pre-wedding stress is inevitable, you can do something about it. Here are a few tips to beat the wedding stress.
- Declare a wedding-free weekend.
For a full 48-hour period, pretend you’re the two people you were before you got engaged (and, in the meantime, remind yourselves of why you wanted to get married to each other in the first place). No wedding planning or fighting allowed! No talk of hors d’oeuvres, seating charts, or first dance songs. Hang out, laugh, have fun, and flirt with each other for a change. - Have a night out with the girls (or boys).
With all the "togetherness" of being a future bride and groom, remind yourselves you’re individuals too. Book a night out with your respective same-sex posse (again, no wedding talk). Hit the town like a swinging single and stay out past midnight. Take advantage of the fact that your future spouse isn’t around to do something with your friends he or she doesn’t like to do — we’re talking chick flick, batting cages, steak dinner, manicures. Then entertain each other the next day with tales of your exploits. - Go on a fancy date. Chances are, for the past few months you’ve been scrimping and saving every extra nickel to supplement The Budget. If you’ve done well, reward yourselves for your miserly skills by spending a little of that cold hard cash. Book a table at the fanciest restaurant in town and go for the full monty: fine wine, appetizer, entree, dessert, and after-dinner drinks. Afterward, stop in a local jazz club and catch a torch singer belting out inspiring tunes de l’amour.
Regardless of all the wedding decisions, the most important thing is you and your fiance. Let your engagement be a time that, even though it is full of planning, is full of fun and love and you start your new life together.