The last few weeks before the marriage can be the most stressful time of the wedding planning process. Of course, great voices are all cured. The dress was ordered, as are the flowers, cake and photography. But there are a lot of details that need to be wrapped. Things like figuring out the seating at the front desk. As your wedding cake jewelry or your bridesmaids gifts. And don’t forget to pick up someone organizing aunt Georgina at the airport after your cousin bailed on you.
And that is assuming that the store of your florist does not burn down two weeks before your wedding. Everything can be a bit overwhelming.
You can’t avoid the stress of pre-wedding entirely – no, even if you don’t have enough money to afford to hire a wedding planning service full service that claims all you have to do is Show up.
You will avoid all no matter what you do, but you can take some steps to help themselves to survive. So, here are seven tips to help you control the pre-wedding stress:
Go out to dinner: go it alone or with a friend or expected. Never mind. What matters is taking the time to slow down enough to sit and enjoy the healthy meal (sorry, not junk food). You must time out and your body needs nutrients. A body fed and rested is better equipped to deal with the stress of last-minute wedding preparations.
Make a trip to the spa health: take a trip it with bridesmaids and pamper yourself. Not only will come out looking more than ever, but you will feel more prepared to handle the stress of this period of your life.
Prayer/Meditation: one of the main advantages of prayer and meditation is that it helps put things in perspective. Measured against an almightily God and all creation, marriage preparation, tensions are relatively insignificant. When you see them in that light, it becomes much easier to control your stress level and address problems as they arise.
Work Out: exercise your stress away. Indeed. It Works. You see, exercise requires the body to release a chemical called endorphins-resulting in a natural high, helps you feel better after a stressful day dealing with all the details of putting together a wedding. Better yet, has the added benefit of creating a more healthy, toned to fit your wedding gown (a pre-wedding related common stressor) and better equipped to manage the stress related to wedding.
Go to a movie: this is not the date night. If you are stressed to get some of your girlfriends and get a chick flick. If your husband is pulling out his hair, sent some of his friends to watch Bruce Willis blowing something. You must let it be what you are, that is what it is. Things work better in this way.
Go do anything active: anything that is not related to marriage. Go take a hike. Try to learn to windsurf. Mountain biking. Go horseback riding. Skiing. Walk on the beach. The point here is not the exercise, even if you could get some of those benefits too, the point is that you can delete your wedding-related stress often just giving yourself a change of pace. Do something fun, but do something active so that your mind doesn’t wander back to the pile of wedding related jobs to be done.
Get Away in pairs: go for a picnic. Go for a day trip to the beach. It doesn’t matter, as long as you take the time to work on your relationship–not marriage, your relationship. Are to be married to your best friend, but modern weddings have a way to drive a wedge between couples. You will enjoy your wedding day (not to mention the rest of your life) a whole lot more if you take time periodically to build your relationship during the wedding planning process and ensure that the marriage is not undermining marriage.
Create or buy a survival Kit for the wedding day: we’ve all heard the stories about the stress of wedding day run amok over a broken nail, lost pin, snack or??? Going to the effort to have a survival kit for the wedding day in an easy-to-carry in case ready to collect and carry with you at the ceremony will give you greater peace of mind.
Yes, the weeks running at the wedding day are demanding. But if you take the time to eliminate the stress intentionally, it regularly and have a great foundation for a wedding day happy and healthy.
