Stressed Out With Planning

Amie,
Everyone goes through that! Take a deep breath, sit down with your fiancee and talk, talk talk! Decide what is important to each of you. After that, if you decide to go through with a tipical wedding & reception thing sit down with both families either all together or the two of you with separate families. Tell them your wishes, ask them what they expect, or want, and what if any financial support, or assist in planning they are able to give you. Once you have all that infomation you can then decide on what you will be able to afford and be able to do. If you see they really don`t want to support or assist you in planning perhaps you would be better off to do it on your own.
My sister got married 3 years ago,only her and her husband in Breckenridge CO. They were having problems with the Grooms Mom and said forget it. They planned a ski trip.....came back and told everyone they were married. Their wedding picture is with them standing on top of a mountain, in all their ski gear, in the snow. She said that it was easy to plan....I guess they do alot of it in Breckenridge. In spring they had a big open house to celebrate. She said if she had it to do over again she would do it the same way. Good Luck in your planning, just remember in the end it is just the two of you...make each other happy!

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Just want you to know everyone that has ever had a big wedding, we have all been there. There is a point where you just want to throw your hand up in the air and say, " I give up".
Just please take one word of advise from a friend, make sure that you are doing things that you and your fiance want to do. Dont let others influence you. Remember, it`s your day and something that you will look back on forever.
Good Luck and God Bless.

Amie,
If you have the time and money, GO AWAY (before y`all jump me, lemme explain!) book a hotel out of town, and have a relaxing weekend, away from friends, family and wedding planning. Take absolutely nothing related to the wedding with you. For the duration of your trip, one rule applies - you can talk about anything, but you cant talk about the wedding. Let only 1 person from both family have your contact details.

You need to relax, you dont want to burn out and be so stressed that you wont enjoy your big day. Also from now on, declare one day a week "NO WEDDING PLAN DAY". This is one day in the week that you do nothing regarding the wedding, just enjoy life.

I hope this helps and good luck, am planning a REALLY big wedding so I feel u totally!

I love that last response! A relaxing day away from the thoughts of family, wedding and all that goes along with it. I also think that if you had your heart set on a large wedding, have your wedding because you may refret it, but if you are satisfied with you both going away, they have weddings on cruises, islands, in Europe. I was so sick of people, I went to Ireland to get married and I invited 250 people, 78 showed up and it was the best time and no stress. I was going to get married at home but there was so much crap about gowns, reception hall, complaints about the time and drive to the place, it got on my nerves. I decided that those who really wanted to be there, would show up. My husband and his family are from Ireland, they were all flying here to be at the wedding and we told them to take care of all the plans and they did with no problems. My parents helped them and it was out of eveyrone`s hands. Take time to yourself/youselves. You both deserve it.

We all have been there, take a deep breath, remind yourself you are calm and beautiful. We are considering a wedding coordinator, page me if you you may need help with that