If you have a busy life (who doesn't), you may wonder how you'll survive and thrive through the multiple decisions and revisions of navigating the months, weeks, and days leading up to your wedding.
How then do you keep it simple and still realize your ideals?
1. Start with trusted recommendations. The web searches can turn up terrific people (I get many weddings that way), but it's much easier to start with people who have already proven themselves to people you trust.
2. Get someone whose judgement you trust to get on the phone and do a little prescreening for you. I spoke last weekend with the sister of a bride who was doing the early legwork for her sibling. What a gift!
3. Follow your instincts. Any vendor who stirs you positively is probably the one you'll choose. If you're really squeezed for budget, then interview for budget, but don't put quality on the back burner just to save 20%. You get what you pay for, and you won't do this wedding a second time.
4. At some point, perhaps as soon as a week or two before the wedding, go somewhere for pure TLC. That's counterintuitive. Most of us think we'll relax on the honeymoon or the three days we take off from work right after the wedding, but by then you may be truly frazzled. If all you can afford is a few hours in a hot tub, a 90 minute massage, a steam room combined with an afternoon in the pool at the Y, book it and do it.
5. I have a colleague who is a nondenominational minister as well as a yoga instructor. Edi Pasalis calls her profession I Do Yoga and she can be found on the web. Edi understands the importance of being in a peaceful space for the opening to a joyful wedding.
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