| The two best ways you can take the stress out of | | | | be great ideas to implement for the wedding, and will |
| planning a wedding are by hiring help and by assuming | | | | probably have a lot of experience at cutting corners |
| it's going to be perfect. | | | | and knowing which ones to cut and how. |
| Planning a wedding can be one of the most stressful | | | | Whatever is decided, and followed through on, or let |
| experiences in a new bride's life, and it seems a | | | | go of, assume it's perfect and that it's all going towards |
| shame that more brides can't enjoy the planning | | | | the most perfect day of your life - and maintain that |
| process more. We think that it's really not that hard to | | | | assumption no matter what. |
| take a lot of the stress out of the experience. | | | | An acquaintance of mine was on her way to her |
| For most people hiring someone like a wedding planner | | | | wedding in the limousine when the trunk of the limo |
| is outside the scope of their budget. Each and every | | | | came flying open and her wedding dress and veil and |
| detail of the wedding adds to the final expense, but | | | | everything else she was taking to the wedding flew |
| maybe this one expense is one you can't afford to | | | | out onto the highway. Drivers began slamming on |
| NOT have. | | | | brakes and trying to swerve around her dress and veil |
| There are usually a lot of personalities at work in | | | | as they floated across the highway! She's an eternal |
| planning a wedding, and the planning itself is establishing | | | | optimist, and what would have been a complete and |
| the foundation for the kinds of relationships that the | | | | total disaster for anyone else to deal with became |
| bride, the groom, their families and their extended | | | | some kind of grand adventure as her and the rest of |
| families will have with each other. Many times the | | | | the wedding party bailed out the limo. Other drivers |
| members of the family are bringing their own | | | | began to stop and help them chase down all of her |
| expectations of what the wedding should and shouldn't | | | | wedding paraphernalia as it was being blown all about |
| be like to the planning process, and a wedding planner | | | | the road. |
| can be an effective intermediary for keeping the | | | | It became a priceless tale of the way they began their |
| planning moving forward while helping to minimize any | | | | lives together, and she never lost her faith that no |
| conflict between family members. | | | | matter how mangled her wedding dress might be after |
| It's like the commercial says: "Priceless!" | | | | she retrieved from under the wheel of a passenger |
| To help the affordability of paying for a planner, part of | | | | car that it was all absolutely perfect just the way it |
| their role can be in helping to find creative ways to cut | | | | was. |
| down on expenses. A good wedding planner will have | | | | For a successful wedding planning - keep the faith - |
| been there and done that and will have valuable | | | | because your wedding will be, too! |
| advice on how great ideas may or may not actually | | | | |