Wedding Planning

Planning a wedding is never easy, whether you have 1 year, 10 months or 3 months. I am busy planning my wedding at the moment.

My Fiancé and I got engaged at the end of January and will be getting married at the end of November. That left us with 10 months to plan.

The initially check list consisting of what I consider to be the "big" things to arrange and book were fairly easy to do, like: venue, menu, photography, videography, DJ, decor and flowers.

Once we had done that there was a period where the wedding planning took a bit of a back seat and things like work, studies and assignments was at the forefront.

Although it wasn't long until the wedding plans were back on the mind along with everything else. Then the check list of the "smaller" yet equally important things started and that seemed longer than the list of "bigger" things. The depressing part is that this list seems to take longer to get through than the first.

It took us a while to decide on our wedding stationary especially the invitations but once we received them and started handing them out we really started getting excited!

Now I don't consider myself to be a very stressful person and thought I was juggling work, tech and wedding plans quite nicely. Until something like a leaky shower and bust hot water pipe put a spanner in the whole works!!!

I officially had what some people call a small breakdown...just by adding an extra problem onto my plate it tipped the whole plate over. Now I look back and think that I was crazy to let a shower something totally out of my control get to my like that!! In my defense though it wasn't the shower itself rather the problem added to the list of things to do.

It is important to mention that my stresses were shared amongst my family (mom, sister, finacé) creating a great support system for me. You are never alone you will always have someone to help you make a decision.

Now I want to say that we are about 2 months away from the actual date and there are still things to do but have managed to get quite a lot done thus far.

We are really looking forward to the big day and becoming husband and wife!!!

I want to wish all those couples who will be planning their weddings in the future a whole lot of luck, and remember the most important part of the day is not the reception but becoming husband and wife!