It is stressing enough to be a bride at the wedding, but what adds to the pressure is when you have been professionally working as someone who plan’s other people’s big day.
You know the whole drill; you also know what to do but your main focus should always be to keep yourself level-headed.
As just a planner in a wedding, the pressure on you is very different.
But, to be the bride and then plan your own wedding, that is a different story altogether.
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The proposal that I received was just perfect! Everything my fiancé did was wonderful and was planned thoroughly down to the last point.
There were a few things that I really needed to up in my planning for our engagement ceremony.
My nerves were a bundle but, I go through it somehow.
Let me breakdown my experience the wedding planner San Francisco bride who had done everything herself, from managing the guests to the caterers, to the decorations, and the many small nitty gritty that I could sink my teeth into.
THE TO-DO LIST
First thing’s first, I needed to get my thoughts organized and that meant putting together everything that needed to be done in my engagement planning journal.
It was my big day, if I was going to make any event perfect, it was definitely going to be mine on top.
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I made a list of everything that needed to be done and got down to finding numbers of all the people I had worked with and even some new additions that I wanted to hire for my big day.
Working with people I am comfortable with professionally, they would know how I like things and would get everything done just how I tell them.
TACKLING TASKS INDIVIDUALLY
The most stressful part is deciding who to finalize and who to leave behind.
Adding up numbers, you think you would be able to adjust everyone. But, I had to separate my bias and think like a professional.
Cutting down the amount of people we would be inviting from both sides, you know you are very stuck where this is concerned and keeping the numbers on the lower end, that mu friend is a struggle!
Then came the part of selecting friends or strangers to get the services from, such as photography, catering, cake, and even the dresses.
Some I had been working with for years, and others I had been admiring. But, to budget out, I went with those I knew for most things, but for some such as my cake, I decided to try the higher-end bakery that I had always thought about.
RESEARCHING AGAIN FROM A BRIDE’S PERSPECTIVE
As a wedding planner San Francisco bride all thrown in one, I have done a fair amount of research.
But, it has always been through the eyes of a stranger.
This time before deciding on who I want to hire and what theme that I want for myself, I gave me as a bride the chance to really go out there and see what I like as a person.
It was the biggest thing that helped me get through everything and not lose my cool.
ULTIMATE TIP: Give yourself a chance to be the bride when selecting what you want and then think like a planner when executing your plan. Easier said than done, but you need to find the fine line between the two!