Any married woman will tell you that planning a wedding is stressful. I don’t know how many times I’ve even typed that saying in my posts, but I KNOW it’s a ton! They just are. No matter if you are the most organized human being, or the most scatterbrained, it’s stressful. Trying to find a perfect photographer is tough. Finding a cake that is JUST perfect is tough. Making sure your flowers arrive on time, and hiring your hair and makeup artist. All that is hard, but when it comes down to it. It doesn’t matter if your flowers didn’t show up until right before the ceremony, or your dress got dirty (which it will). To help ease your worries I wanted to let you future brides in on a few little secrets to make you a little less of a bridezilla on your wedding day with a few things NOT to stress about on your wedding day! 🙂

Your White Dress Doesn’t Stay White

Enter the gasps now. I know, I know. It’s hard to believe, but most wedding dresses are white, and I don’t know of ANY that stayed stark white the entire wedding day. If you have any outdoor photos to take, the bottom of your dress will get dirty. You’ll probably get stickers and twigs and all sorts of who knows what around it. If you have a long train, your bridesmaids, or even the groom can help you keep most of that out of the dirt but here’s the great thing.You don’t need to stress about it. No one is going to be looking down there anyways! 😀

Hair and Makeup ALWAYS (always, always, always) Takes Longer Than It Should

I don’t know what it is. The photographer in me goes crazy over this, even when I know that it happens almost every time. I’ll show up and I get a “oh hey Misty, hair took longer than we expected, so we’re a little behind.” I know it’s going to happen, that’s why I pad my timeline here and there to allow extra time when things go array. But guess what. NO WORRIES! We’ll make the timeline work. There’s no need to stress.

Flowers

Wow. Not much of a header for this paragraph. One tip of advice to avoid stress here. MAKE SURE your florist knows that you need flowers before pictures start. Recently I was at a wedding where photos were going to start, and the flowers didn’t get there until about 30 minutes before the ceremony–3 hours LATER than photos were. YIKES. Just communicate with your florist, and you shouldn’t have to stress about this one! 😉

Groomsmen

This one is a tough one. I’ve been to my fair share of weddings where there’s AT LEAST one groomsmen who you just know has had entirely too much to drink, and the bride (or the groom) get’s stressed about having to deal with it. Another dose of COMMUNICATION can help this situation. Have your Groom talk to his buddies long before the wedding if he thinks this is remotely a possibility. If the groomsmen know he won’t be pleased if they act out, they make think about that 6th shot at 10 in the morning. And then, no stress for the bride! 😀

Remember Why You Are There

Sure, these things could cause a whole lot of trauma in one day, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if you got cake smashed in your face and you had to reapply makeup. You will completely forget that your caterer was an hour late, and you won’t remember the name of the groomsmen’s plus-one that passed out on the dance floor.

After all is said and done, you’ll be married to the love of your life, and hopefully with some amazing photos to remember your day! 😀

What moments did you have to stay calm and collected on your wedding day?  My photographer showed up about an hour late because of traffic, but I figured we had enough time to make it work.