12 Tips To Kick Wedding Overwhelm's Ass

As someone who gets to hang out at lots of weddings, I’ve seen even the most chill of couples deal with anxiety over the sheer amount of stuff that comes with planning the planning process. There’s so much to coordinate, delegate and organize.

These tips might even save you a few dollars here and there and they will definitely save your sanity!

1. Create a wedding email address.

This sounds super simple but if you’re enquiring with lots of different vendors and subscribing to a bunch of helpful newsletters, chances are your inbox is bursting with emails. Keep everything organized and in the same place with an email address specifically for wedding emails.

2. Choose a venue that can host your entire wedding. 

Your life will be so much easier if you only have one address to send people to. You’ll get more value from your photographer and videographer if their time isn’t eaten up traveling between locations and you’ll likely only have one coordinator to deal with who can help you plan out your entire day.

One of my fav all-inclusive venues is Cave Hill Creek, they get all the points because they can host you and all of your guests for the entire weekend!

3. Have a cocktail-style reception instead of a sit-down meal.

No set tables mean no seating plans to come up with! Plus there's the bonus of getting to move around and mingle more. There are so many ways to make dinner fun too, you could do woodfired pizza or hire a food truck.

4. Hire a planner.

It sounds pretty obvious but if you don’t want to deal with the nitty-gritty of planning EVERYTHING yourself then hire a planner! They know everyone in the industry and can book your dream team for you, they know all the hacks and more than pay themselves with the time they’ll save you and the value they bring. My fav is Sarah from Love, Milcie and she’s based right here in the Grampians!

5. Don’t compare your wedding to others.

Especially Pinterest weddings! It’s about the two of you and the things that you care about. Once you’ve nailed your style and know how you want your day to feel then jump off the wedding boards and plan on making it yours.

6. Hire your decor.

If you don’t want your house to feel like an op shop in the lead up to your wedding day then hire your decor and styling items. Clean space, clean mind! And you’ll have the added bonus of not having to try to sell it all later.  Ooh La Lemonade and Little Black Sheep Hire Co are some awesome local hire co’s.

7. Go on wedding planning dates with your SO.

Weddings are pretty time-consuming things to plan and they come with lots of big joint decisions to make. With such a big task at hand it can quickly take over your life and before you know it, your wedding has come and gone, and now you don’t know what the hell you even did before you got engaged. Schedule in dates together to plan your wedding or vice versa, schedule in dates where you DON’T talk weddings to keep that romance alive.

8. Keep it small.

Or better yet, elope! The smaller you keep it the smaller the costs and you’ll have more time on your wedding day to take it all in and actually talk to your guests.

9. Get in early.

One way to guarantee wedding stress is to leave the planning too late and find that your dream team is already booked on your date. This is especially true at the moment with all of the rescheduled weddings from 2020 and newly engaged couples booking in, for vendors, it’s basically two years’ worth of weddings jammed into one so lock your faves in early to avoid disappointment.

10. Set boundaries.

Everyone has either had a wedding or been to one and everyone has an opinion on what makes a wedding awesome. Unsolicited advice usually comes from a place of love but it can easily add to the stress.

This is your day and you get to celebrate how you want. If that means throwing traditions by the wayside in favour of something more alternative, do you. There are no rules anymore!

11. Choose a photographer and videographer team.

Like us! When you choose a business that can do both you take out the work of finding another vendor, you save time on meeting with more people and you get the peace of mind that your team will not only work seamlessly together but your photos and videos will be in the same style too.

12.  Perspective.

Finally, keep things in perspective. It’s so easy to get caught up in all the trends and fads but your wedding isn’t really about all of the stuff. It’s about marrying the shit out of your favourite person and if the only thing you are at the end of the day is married that’s pretty freaking successful in my opinion!