So your long time boyfriend has finally popped the question and you have decided to accept. Once all the excitement wears out its time to get down to the job of actually organizing and making the most important day in your life a day to remember.

 

We all dream of a fairy tale wedding, especially with the 3 or 4 tiered wedding cake, the fairy tale wedding dress with endless lengths of tulle with cute bridesmaids. But there is more to a wedding than this, there is a lot of planning and organizing to take care of before the big day.

 

The entire family plays a part in your wedding, your parents, sisters and brothers, the bridegroom and his family and relatives with advice or with heated arguments on the countdown to the big day.

 

There are many challenges you will face when planning your wedding. It is best to identify and deal with them on the onset. Some of the challenges that can be identified are:

 

Emotional challenges – Each bride to be goes through different types of emotional stress. This is because so much of pressure is put on the bride by dress designers, caterers, florist and all the minute details, its more like a roller coaster ride that never ends. All emotions seem to hit all time high during this time. You might even find yourself questioning your decision to get married.

 

Family pressure – Mother wants Aunt Clara to do the wedding dress and you have that dress designer in mind, the one that you have been dreaming of doing your wedding dress since you were a teenager. Family battles are often blown way out of proportion as thoughts and opinions are voices, some unsolicited advice is given which are totally contradictory to yours. Your family means well and wants to help but you have to put your foot down sometimes.

 

Being of different religion and class – This is not so much of a challenge and never exist in western countries but in Asian countries there is generally a lot of pressure on the wedding couples if they marry someone from another religion, cast and social status.

 

The budget – It is mostly likely going to cost the earth but with careful planning and with friends to help out you can make it almost half the cost of the wedding.

 

If anything can go wrong it will – As Murphy’s Law suggests, no matter how much planning you have done, it will prepare you for the inevitable or unexpected.

 

Looking your best on the big day – so your beauty products have given you a skin irritation and those dark circles never seem to go away with all the stress.

 

Start planning for your wedding at least one year ahead. Prepare a month to month wedding planning guide. Tick off what is complete. By the time you reach the month of the wedding you will find yourself with very little to do. Book yourself into that much needed spa to relax yourself before the big day.