{"id":60624,"date":"2020-05-18T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-17T14:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/wedding-planning-stress\/"},"modified":"2023-08-04T16:06:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-04T06:06:51","slug":"wedding-planning-stress","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/wedding-planning-stress\/","title":{"rendered":"The 73 emotional steps of planning a wedding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wedding planning stress can bring up a lot of emotions. Sometimes you’ll want to scream and shout, sometimes you’ll want to jump for joy, and sometimes you’ll just feel totally over it. The good news? We’ve got this.<\/p>\n

Most couples experience waves of emotions throughout the wedding planning process<\/a><\/strong>. Sure, all your friends have told you how fun weddings are. And it’s true. Your wedding day is going to be one of the most fun occasions you’ll ever host.<\/p>\n

What your friends maybe haven’t told you is that it can also be pretty stressy. Everyone you know has opinions on where you should get married, how much money you’ll spend, who should be on your guest list, and so on.<\/p>\n

Our lead wedding planner Darcy Allen<\/strong>, who organises our wedding packages<\/strong><\/a>, says, “The number one wedding planning tip I give everyone is to find your confidant. For most couples, that ends up being their wedding planner. When you have a wedding planner you really trust, you can go to them with any problem and they’ll talk you through your options and do the problem solving for you.”<\/p>\n

If planning has you feeling overwhelmed, reach out to Darcy. She makes wedding planning stress something of the past by culling through the options for you to source your venue and book your dream team<\/strong>. All that *and* she acts as a sounding board throughout the planning process so you’ll always have someone with real industry experience to lean into.<\/p>\n\n

\"Speak<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here’s Darcy’s outline of the 73 stages of the wedding planning roller coaster.<\/h3>\n
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  1. Get engaged<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Engagement bubble<\/li>\n
  3. Lots of questions from friends and family<\/li>\n
  4. Pinterest boards start<\/li>\n
  5. Budget talk<\/li>\n
  6. Guest list creation<\/li>\n
  7. Venue hunt<\/li>\n
  8. Send guest list to family<\/li>\n
  9. Family add more people<\/li>\n
  10. Reassess dream venue<\/li>\n
  11. More budget talk<\/li>\n
  12. Take a break from planning<\/li>\n
  13. Pinterest board obsession really kicks in<\/strong><\/li>\n
  14. Supplier hunt<\/li>\n
  15. Family and friends suggestions and opinions<\/li>\n
  16. Take a break from the supplier hunt<\/li>\n
  17. Supplier hunt<\/li>\n
  18. Confirm some suppliers<\/li>\n
  19. More budget talk<\/li>\n
  20. More suggestions and opinions from others<\/strong><\/li>\n
  21. Elopement thoughts<\/li>\n
  22. Pinterest board picks up again<\/li>\n
  23. Rethink your decisions<\/li>\n
  24. Supplier hunt<\/li>\n
  25. Confirm some more suppliers<\/li>\n
  26. Budget worries<\/li>\n
  27. Guest list revised<\/li>\n
  28. Styling kicks in<\/li>\n
  29. Styling quotes<\/li>\n
  30. Reassessment of styling ideas<\/li>\n
  31. More styling quotes<\/li>\n
  32. Styling confirmed<\/li>\n
  33. More budget talk<\/li>\n
  34. Midnight thoughts – have I forgotten anything?<\/strong><\/li>\n
  35. Realise something you\u2019ve forgotten to include<\/li>\n
  36. Organise thing you forgot<\/li>\n
  37. Guest list finally confirmed<\/li>\n
  38. Guest list sent to families again to check<\/li>\n
  39. Families have more thoughts on the guest list<\/li>\n
  40. Revisit elopement thoughts<\/li>\n
  41. Guest list revised<\/li>\n
  42. Guest list re-confirmed<\/strong><\/li>\n
  43. Invitations sent<\/li>\n
  44. Run sheet draft<\/li>\n
  45. RSVPs start coming back<\/li>\n
  46. Seating charts created<\/li>\n
  47. Seating charts sent to families<\/li>\n
  48. Families have thoughts on the seating chart<\/strong><\/li>\n
  49. Seating chart revised<\/li>\n
  50. Run sheet revised<\/li>\n
  51. More RSVPs<\/li>\n
  52. Final confirmations with suppliers<\/li>\n
  53. More budget talk<\/li>\n
  54. Run sheet revised<\/li>\n
  55. Meeting with celebrant<\/li>\n
  56. Legal documents completed<\/li>\n
  57. Start thinking about vows and speeches<\/li>\n
  58. Put vows and speeches on hold (too emotional)<\/li>\n
  59. Run sheet confirmed<\/li>\n
  60. Final numbers required<\/li>\n
  61. Still waiting on some guests to RSVP<\/strong><\/li>\n
  62. Panic sets in<\/li>\n
  63. Guests send last-minute dietary requirements<\/li>\n
  64. Guest numbers finally confirmed<\/li>\n
  65. Try to write vows and speeches again<\/li>\n
  66. Have a big glass of wine and think \u2018we should have eloped\u2019<\/strong><\/li>\n
  67. Last-minute running around<\/li>\n
  68. Pampering (we hope!)<\/li>\n
  69. The \u2018have I got everything\u2019 thoughts<\/li>\n
  70. The \u2018stuff it, I\u2019m exhausted and over it\u2019 thoughts<\/li>\n
  71. Morning of your wedding day – does the musician know this, did I remember to tell the venue this\u2026.<\/li>\n
  72. Have a few glasses of bubbly and \u2018too late now\u2019 thoughts<\/li>\n
  73. \n

    FINALLY, YOU\u2019RE AT THE AISLE!! OMG THIS *IS* THE BEST DAY EVER!<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    Photo by Nicola Lemmon<\/a>. See this real wedding<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":60625,"template":"","au_article_tag":[1901,1916,1902,83],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/60624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/60624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=60624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}