Marlon Dirk asked:
When you are getting ready for your big day, there are a great many things that must be accomplished. Take the time to find a good wedding planning book and use it to guide you through the process. It can be a big help when you have too much to think about.
Planning a party for a couple of hundred people would be difficult under any circumstances, but when the party is your own wedding it takes on a whole new level of difficulty. You will have to prepare yourself and make sure that the ceremony goes accordingly also. Shopping for your dress and making sure that the bridesmaids have the right colors and dresses is enough work for anyone, but you also must be concerned with a host of other things.
It’s a good idea to find a wedding planning book and keep track of all of your planning activities in a binder that is used strictly for the wedding. A day planner can help you to keep track of your appointments and fittings that must be done before the wedding. You should get together with your wedding party regularly so that you can divide the tasks and not take on everything on your own. Give some of the errands and simple jobs to the bridesmaids and members of your family.
A plan of action is the only way to get through a job as large as a wedding. You must have a list of the tasks that you need to finish and a place to keep your information together in one place. A good guide that comes in a wedding planning book will help you understand what should be included in your wedding planning appointment book. Wedding planning is a great deal like project management. There is a desired outcome and a list of jobs that will bring that goal closer and closer.
Try to be organized when you are planning a big wedding. It is the only way that you are going to get through the planning stages of your wedding. Don’t get overwhelmed and let someone help you with the tasks that must be accomplished. It is easy to think that you must handle everything on your own, but you should let some of the smaller decisions go and only handle them from a final decision standpoint. The legwork can be done by anybody.
Shop for a good wedding planning book that can guide you through the steps that must be taken to plan a great wedding. It will become your bible in the days to come and should help you a great deal.
DAMRON
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Kenh Jones asked:
So you are all excited at the start of planning your wedding day but you do not want to spend a ridiculous amount of money on a professional wedding planner. You are going to have to pay for certain things anyway and it can be a waste to have a middle person doing all the coordinating for you. They will charge you handsomely for their services.
Of course if you have no time and very few contacts it might actually be better if you did use a professional but that is up to you. I will assume that you have decided to do your own wedding planning. That decision made there is no shortage of excellent resources for you to use to help you plan your special day
You cannot do the food or the honeymoon for free but you can with a bit of skill and guile do your wedding planning for free. Here are a few ways to do this.
Using the internet to do your free wedding planning
The internet is becoming freer by the year and there are lots of free guides and e-books on wedding planning that you can download. There are also checklists and spreadsheets for you to follow to ensure nothing is missed out. To find these websites type in a phrase such as wedding plan or plan your wedding and you will get plenty of help.
Friends can help you plan your wedding but choose them well
Its time to call in a few favours and use your friends to help you plan the wedding. Make sure they are reliable and not prone to stupid ideas. It is not their wedding, it is yours and they need to remember that. When we planned our wedding (30 years ago) I chose my best friend to help. Now he is a born organiser and administrator so we had a fantastic day and the planning and delivery of our special day was second to none. No surprise I made him best man on the day.
Between us we gathered a small team who came up with how we wanted our day to be. We added things in and removed other bad ideas over 3 or 4 meetings in our home. All the implementation was shared out and we had a fantastic day. This cost us nothing other than a bit of time and some careful choosing of the right friends. If you have good friends they will want to help for free.
Use other people weddings as an idea resource for yours
Some weddings are memorable and others are downright dreadful. There is nothing remotely funny about a drunken groom on his wedding day. Think back to the weddings you have been to and try to define what it was that you liked about it. Was it the music, the greeters, the cars, the speeches? Copy ideas from other people. If you are worried they will think you copied the idea tell them what you plan to do. They will take it as a compliment that you are doing the same thing.
Use your own ideas carefully
Your wedding needs to be your own day with its own character. This is a great bonus for doing your own wedding planning. You can put in touches that no one else has thought of. But this can be a problem. Just because you think it is a nice romantic idea it doesn’t mean it is a good idea. Horse drawn carriages are great but have you smelt the XXXX that comes out of the horses? Mixing the families might be right or could be disastrous. To overcome potential problems run the ideas past your small wedding planning team and listen. In the end your vote over rides all the others but other peoples input could stop a disaster.
SPRADLIN
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I love my baby! asked:
I’m filming skateboarding w/ the soon to be camcorder. But I also want to start filming some weddings.
Mini dv or Hdv? Cmos or 3ccd?
Thank you
JOYCE
