Wedding is one of the biggest, happiest, and most significant events in one’s life. Probably that is the reason that it causes huge stress in would-be bride and groom prior to the occasion. To deal with wedding stress you can consult a pre-marital counselor or follow the basic rules and keep stress away from you.
Take good care of yourself
To deal with your wedding stress you must take proper care of yourself. Never think of going for a crash diet. Take a healthy and nourishing diet. Avoid indulging in too much of alcohol, caffeine, or sugar. Exercise regularly. Meditation and relaxation exercises are extremely good measures for maintaining a healthy body and a stress free mind. Do not sacrifice your sleep for anything. Adequate sleep is extremely essential for you during such stressful times. In fact, this is the time that you should pamper yourself as much as you can. Take time out of your hectic schedule for self pampering. That would make you look good and you would feel happier, more confident, and less stressed. Always remember to smile and laugh, no matter how strenuous the wedding planning and related activities may seem. Laughter is an anti-stressor, the more you laugh and smile the more you push away stress from your life.
Invest in some good planning and time management
Time management and a good planning are very essential to make a smooth wedding. So, start planning early. Involve your would-be spouse in the planning. Decide on the budget of the planning together and stick to the budget. You might be tempted to stretch the budget and get a grand wedding, but don’t do so. Often finance and budget are the main causes behind wedding stress. Many times this stress continues to make its impact on the newly married couple and their lives even after the weeding. So, decide on the budget after considering all factors wisely and plan your wedding around that budget.
Understand your priorities. If anything does not need your attention just now, delay it or postpone it. Share your responsibilities with others. You may want to take care of every minute detail yourself, but practically that won’t be possible. It would only increase your stress and do no good to you.
Don’t be a perfectionist
This is one event where you want everything to go just perfect. But, this expectation of perfection can lead to grave stress prior to your wedding and disappointment post wedding. It’s true that hardly any wedding goes that perfect way, however good planning and attention to even the smallest detail is given. There will be a little difference here and there. So, expect minor variations and changes instead of expecting point-to-point perfection in the execution of the wedding plan. Being content is the secret to keeping wedding stress away.
Spend time on non-wedding related matters
If you keep thinking about wedding always, you would run very close to losing your sanity before the wedding takes place. Take a break from the wedding matter in between the chock-a-block schedule. Spend time with your friends and family and talk to them about other things (basically anything other than your wedding). Call up your friends, chat with your cousins, or watch a movie at home. During the planning and arrangement phase you might have a tendency of ignoring your partner or making him/her crazy by talking only about the D day. So, make it up by spending time with him/her and talking to him/her about other things. Squeeze out some time that you can spend on recreational or leisure activities. If you take a break from the wedding plans for even five humble minutes, you would find yourself refreshed and regenerated at the end of it.
Do not try to please every single person
Never expect that you would be able to please everyone during your wedding. There will be people involved who would never be happy and would have something or the other to complain about. There will be suggestions and opinions from all quarters and many would take offense if their opinions are not taken up for execution. Do not stress yourself for all these. You would certainly not want to change your plans of wedding to incorporate all the suggestions that you get and make your wedding look like a chaos. Keep your and your partner’s preferences on top and accept or ignore all the suggestions that you get as per the suitability of them depending on your wedding type. Social obligations would be huge prior to wedding. But, you may not have all the time to meet all of them or they may be too tiresome after a point. In such case, defer some of them that you can take care later on. In a nutshell, do not stress yourself while trying to make everyone happy.
