Wedding Planning Tips

My partner and I aren’t the most traditional couple out there and it just isn’t in me to wait around for a guy to ask me to marry him and have the whole thing be a big surprise. I mean, how could I leave my future up to someone else? I wanted it to be a decision we made together. After many many talks and discussions, it sounds like we are both ready and the ball is in motion. Even though I wasn’t crazy about the idea of an engagement ring, it was as important to him as it was to me to have some sort of ceremony with our friends and families present, though neither of us want a big one. So we both compromised in some ways and he told me this morning he is going to get me a ring pretty soon but he still wants to do the whole “surprise proposal” anyway, which I think is still romantic even if I know it’s coming.
To the heart of my question: Even though this is what I want, it still hasn’t been this smooth, seamless decision. There was a lot of miscommunication between us at first and we each have had doubts and have been scared in some ways because we both come from broken homes. Getting married is a huge deal but it isn’t one of those things I have known 100% I want to do (with anyone) my whole life. It’s been a big decision I’ve had to think a lot about, especially because I am kind of an independent woman.
I think most of us girls have been brought up to believe that you are supposed to sit pretty and wait for the man to ask you so you’ll know it’s what he wants, blah blah. Talking about it too muchmeans your are nagging him and it will “ruin” the surprise and won’t be romantic, blah blah. Even though I think all that is hogwash, it’s still hard for me to get that out of my head, the fairytale. Especially because I know quite a few girls that did seem to have the fairytale. They meet, date a bit, fall in love, move in together, boom he asks her to marry him after 3 or 4 years and they have a lavish wedding funded mostly by their parents and she plays princess for a day. Yeah…that is so not me or my life, ha ha.
I don’t know many couples that have made the decision together, but I do know maybe one or two. Would anyone else like to share a story of how you and your partner decided to get married or a non-traditional engagement? Also, anyone that had a rocky road to the engagement istelf but are happily married now would give me confidence.
Thanks so much.

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Wedding planning isn’t an activity undertaken by a single person.  Sure, it might all begin with one person’s dreams and aspirations for that “perfect wedding” [this usually is the case with a young girl or young woman whose daydreams are almost fantasy-like and eventually become more realistic…hanging on ever-so-lightly [or is that tightly?] to the essence of those daydreams and fantasies into adulthood…until those imaginations form into some semblance of a do-able wedding.

But actually planning the wedding…making such dreams come to pass, as it were, isn’t to be done, easily, by just one person.  Even the most skilled wedding planners have assistants to help with their wedding planning!

Whatever the case with such lofty, whimsical pursuits of the heart, they cannot be pulled off with any sort of finesse or synchronicity of beauty without a LOT of HELP!

So even if you’re not the bride-to-be [you might be her mom, in which case, the task of wedding planning might appear to have fallen squarely on your shoulders!] you’re going to need as many able-bodied, willing, pairs of hands, and equally thoughtful brains, to help you pull off what, to this day, remains as one of the greatest orchestrations of ceremony with social interaction known to modern society.

Do you balk at such a statement?  Well, just think of it.  In many ways, wedding planning is the organizing of the lives of two souls to be brought together—ostensibly, and effectively—also bringing together generations of family members, friends, work associates, and even complete strangers, to dress up in “Sunday best” [in most cases], meet in a single place on a particular day, coordinating photographers, caterers, florists, and many other working professionals in a manner that…all…WORKS!

Wedding planning, for sure, takes talent and EFFORT!

Now, you’re probably thinking to your self it takes the cooperation of many people, which is out of your hands—and that’s true, to some extent—but do you really think all of those guests, professionals, and participants would all come together without the diligent efforts of one “master planner”, assisted by dutiful helpers?  And such is the essence of successful wedding planning!

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