Important Tips to Remember Before the Wedding
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By Delilah BookerPublished 4 years ago • 4 min read
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You are about to get married - then you will probably receive advice from all sides before the wedding: what to do, how to do it, where to do it. People who haven't even had a wedding or got married 100 years ago (!) Are happy to tell you how to proceed or even organize everything yourself! Her parents want something, her parents want something else, her friends don't help - and you don't know what to do!
Here are some pre-wedding tips that can help:
- Important decisions. Make important decisions as early as possible: where you would like to have a religious wedding and reception, what wedding dress you want, what music band, ornaments, and guests. These are the essential parts - you can take care of the rest along the way. Once you have chosen the location, the band, and made the guest list, everything becomes easier. Remember: more important than a perfect location is to know that you will be with your loved ones, that you will spend the evening with the people you want to do it with.
- Careful planning. To avoid confusion, confusion, haste, despair, this is one of the most important tips before the wedding: plan your important details carefully. Just as if you were working on a work project, put on paper an organization plan that must include: everyone's responsibilities, time limits, and expenses. So, as you finish with one of the responsibilities, tick it off the list and you will feel better!
- Who does what? Very important, if we talk about advice before the wedding: who does the work? In general, in the beginning, the future bride is so excited that she wants to do everything: what suits her because she is not so excited and excited about all the agitation… But if she takes care of everything, she will see that she manages hardly and she will be a little frustrated - it is only a step to an argument and remarks like "you don't want to do anything, you don't care about our wedding, you don't want to get married". So, pre-wedding advice for men - help your fiancée and get a little involved in the whole organization. You can, of course, do what is important together: find the location for the reception, the church, the band, the ornaments… But this is an ideal scenario. It is efficient and safe to strictly share your responsibilities in planning. He can take care of either the guest list and the choice of guests, or the menu (you just have to taste a lot of dishes and choose!) And the location of the church…
- It's your wedding! Parents, as well as close friends, will come up with different tips before the wedding, more and more strange suggestions, and various requests: "Don't you have fish on the menu?", "Don't you serve vodka?" "Isn't that going to be Latin / popular / pop / etc. Music?" etc.! Of course, you have to take into account some of these desires of your loved ones - especially the involvement of your parents, you can't completely get rid of them! But remember that it is, however, your wedding and that you have the last word! Yes, you want everyone to feel good, but subtly remind your parents that you are getting married, not for your aunt in the country! So don't give up on what you want.
- Don't spend too much… but don't save on blood either! Think about what you want and don't give up on what you dream of unless it involves great sacrifices! Make a list of the expenses you can afford, the money you can afford to borrow, and set a budget limit for each aspect. But do not spend more than you can afford, because even though it is your wedding and precisely because it is your wedding, you will be happy with a less expensive band, a more modest bridal bouquet, a less extravagant arrangement… No, you have to impress anyone - it's important that everyone feels good, not to praise the decorations!
- Don't let stress cause quarrels! You will soon be married - this is not the time to give in to your nerves, fears, stress, and quarrel! Yes, you will be extremely tired, nervous, stressed before the wedding. But you have to stay a team, not turn into rivals! She wants lilies, he wants roses! Does it seem like a problem worth arguing about? Any misunderstandings you have, stay calm, discuss and compromise! No detail of your wedding is more important than the understanding between you.
- Live the moment! Especially for the bride, the wedding and especially the preparations for it are extremely tiring, stressful. And sometimes the bride wakes up thinking "I can't wait for it to end"! Try to be there at your wedding, don't become an automatic robot set to smile falsely all night! Don't show fake smiles to the cameramen, but live your wedding the way you want. Do not get married to stay with a bunch of immaculate pictures, but to enjoy the formalization of your love.
- Don't panic! Expect a small crisis - for some more intense, for others, just a moment of fear. It is normal, a few weeks or days (even hours) before the wedding, for the future groom or the future bride to have a moment of balance. It is normal to be afraid, to think if you have made a good decision, if you want to do that, to have fears about the future. But when you see your bride and groom, all your fears and doubts will go away…
- Protect yourself. A few days before the wedding, be careful not to expose yourself to any risk factors: cold, rain, electricity, strange food, risky physical activity! A wedding in which the bride and groom have a fever, a stomach ache or a plaster leg is not as funny!
Free days. Stress, fatigue, waiting to create a state of nervous excitability in which you have little left and do little! So an extremely good idea is to take as many days off as you can: at least 1–2 before the wedding and 3–4 after the wedding…


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