De-stress With Fake Deadlines
Fab Wedding Advice – Part 8 of a 10-part series
Impose a series of self-made deadlines on your wedding planning and you’ll be amazed how it relieves the stress of getting tasks done on time.
When organising a wedding, time is rarely your friend. The biggest danger is that close to the date of the wedding you’ll suddenly realise you have a million decisions to make, and things to organise, but time is fast running out.
That’s when the sinking feeling sets in, and often the panic, which is the very worst time just a few weeks, or even days, before your big day.
Why does this happen? Leaving aside the reason (excuse?) that you’ve got a busy life, actual deadlines for getting things done are few and far between. With 12 months to go to your wedding, do you really need to sort out the photographer, the florist or the DJ – there’s always time, right?
Wrong. If you think good wedding planning is about meeting deadlines only when your venue and vendors are crying out for you to finalise your decisions you’re going to hit end up hitting panic stations.
To stop the mad rush at the end, create a series of fake “deadlines” for completing each task well ahead of time. Use a spreadsheet or a calendar to map out what you have to do and set the deadlines that will enable you to carry-out all those tasks. Aside from keeping stress levels low, you’ll do a better job of organising each aspect of your wedding if you’re not in a rush. And your big day will be better then you could have hoped for.
Don’t be influenced by people who tell you it’s normal to be overwhelmed by wedding tasks. It just doesn’t have to be that way if you’re organised.
The ideal is to have everything sorted a month before the wedding, two months if possible. There’ll always be some small details to attend to in the days before, and you’ll find those no bother knowing everything else is taken care of.
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