Knowledge is power with any endeavor but especially a new one. When a bride plans her wedding, she is very much a project manager. If that was her title at work, there's no doubt that it would come with a fair amount of stress. So what would make planning a wedding so much more difficult?
It can be a number of things. Here are just a few that make planning a wedding more stressful and completely different.
1. A wedding is an emotionally-charged event.
2. Relatives and friends alike come out of nowhere to offer "help". Great at work, but planning a wedding, maybe not.
3. Planning a wedding just doesn't fall into the category of something you do every day. There is not a one-size-fits-all book to match your style!
4. You aren't getting a salary. Instead, you feel like money is falling through your hands like sand.
5. Fifty years from now it just might make a difference as a fond memory or not! At work it probably won't be remembered one way or another in 50 years.
So what do you do when you don't have time to read every book or magazine that is out there? How do you learn what goes when interviewing vendors so that your vision is clear, you know what you will get for your money and why things cost as much as they do? If you are a DIY bride, you're probably exactly that because you are low on money and are prepared to tackle some of the things that need to be accomplished. You might be thinking, "If only I had someone help to tell me how it is done."
Here is a website for a workshop to help DIY brides. http://www.bridal4-1-1workshops.com/. Please respond soon to get into these workshops.
Workshops don't cost as much as buying books upon books and tons of magazines. At workshops, consider it an experience where you can ask questions of experts without waiting for the 2nd edition to be published! Every workshop is like meeting an author. At most workshops, the vendors have been selected because of their respect among peers.
As always..Wishing You the Greatest of Days
Janis Flagg,
Greatest of Days,
Wedding and Event Planning, Design and Officiating
http://www.greatestofdays.com/
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Monday, September 6, 2010
10 Questions for the DIY Bride
If you want to plan your wedding yourself, you can save yourself a lot of headache and stress by attending workshops that are put on by vendors. I would equate it to the saying "an ounce of prevention is work a pound of cure". You can never have too much information just as you can never be too prepared for any project that is going to require a lot of people, time and money!
What!? A wedding being compared to project management? Yes! It's all in the details, and the unexpected, contingency plans and so forth! People will tell you how to plan until they are blue in the face, but if it isn't working for you, then step back take a deep breath and allow yourself to devise a plan that is geared more to your style.
Ask yourself these questions:
1. Am I a checklist kind of person?
2. Am I a person who prefers to have everything categorized by color?
3. Am I a person who has to have a committee for everything? (Your strength comes from being surrounded by people and their ideas).
4. Am I person who can get a lot more done if I can just go someplace to concentrate where it is quiet?
5. Am I planning my wedding to please everyone else, and is that causing more stress?
6. Do I thrive in a high energy environment?
7. Do I find it easier to learn by seeing things, hearing things, touching things, feeling things or even smelling things?
8. Am I running like crazy but feeling like I'm getting nowhere fast?
9. Am I juggling family, career and planning a wedding?
10. Am I just finding everything too expensive and getting more discouraged by the minute?
If you can answer some of these questions, identify with some of them and feel a sense of relief, I have a tool that might help you get focused.
If you are a bride-to-be, you can go to my website http://greatestofdays.com/contact.html and put "planning" in the comment section and I'll email you a pdf of my "Visionnaire". If you follow my blog, I will update you with tips to help you plan a stress-free wedding.
What!? A wedding being compared to project management? Yes! It's all in the details, and the unexpected, contingency plans and so forth! People will tell you how to plan until they are blue in the face, but if it isn't working for you, then step back take a deep breath and allow yourself to devise a plan that is geared more to your style.
Ask yourself these questions:
1. Am I a checklist kind of person?
2. Am I a person who prefers to have everything categorized by color?
3. Am I a person who has to have a committee for everything? (Your strength comes from being surrounded by people and their ideas).
4. Am I person who can get a lot more done if I can just go someplace to concentrate where it is quiet?
5. Am I planning my wedding to please everyone else, and is that causing more stress?
6. Do I thrive in a high energy environment?
7. Do I find it easier to learn by seeing things, hearing things, touching things, feeling things or even smelling things?
8. Am I running like crazy but feeling like I'm getting nowhere fast?
9. Am I juggling family, career and planning a wedding?
10. Am I just finding everything too expensive and getting more discouraged by the minute?
If you can answer some of these questions, identify with some of them and feel a sense of relief, I have a tool that might help you get focused.
If you are a bride-to-be, you can go to my website http://greatestofdays.com/contact.html and put "planning" in the comment section and I'll email you a pdf of my "Visionnaire". If you follow my blog, I will update you with tips to help you plan a stress-free wedding.
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