One of the goals of the Women on Their Way website is to provide women with the tools and information that they need to make planning time with their families easy and fun. We recently partnered up with Wedding Wire and have just launched some really cool tools to help brides-to-be take some of the stress out of planning their big event.
Wedding planning should be fun but with all of the details to manage, planning that big party can become overwhelming and frustrating. Our wedding tools will help to keep the nitty-gritty of planning simple and organized, while the wedding boards on Women on Their Way will help you to keep your sanity during the stressful times by connecting you with other brides-to-be who are experiencing the same challenges and thrills.
When I got engaged, I made a promise to myself that I was not going to let planning a party overshadow what the day was really about: the commitment that I was making to my new family, meaning my husband and future children. The rest was just a big party in my eyes. That viewpoint helped to keep me sane.
Good thing too, because on the day of my outdoor, tented formal wedding, I woke up to a hurricane. Literally. The wind was howling, it was raining harder than I had ever experienced and a tornado touched down on the farm less than a mile away from my wedding site. As my Mom and I lay in her bed, laughing about the craziness of the weather, we lost the power.
We had no running water, no power and no bathrooms for my formal, daytime wedding. I didn't even brush my teeth that day. Honestly! My hair was not perfect, my dress was a bit wrinkled and I was over a half hour late to the ceremony. We had the best time EVER.
They brought in generators for the DJ, the candle centerpieces just lit up the room in the most romantic of ways and my sorority sisters and I got a kick out of taking pics of me in the bright blue port-a-potty that they had to wheel in for the occasion. Since there were no mirrors in the bathrooms, there was no concern for how you looked - and even the most conservative were shaking it on the dance floor. I have never had so much fun.
Why am I telling you all of this? Well, two reasons - one, because I think that it's important to keep things in perspective and I'm hoping that my personal wedding story can remind you that although you will plan, plan and plan - having the attitude of "It is what it is" certainly helps when things go wrong. Second, because if you have all of the little details done and accounted for, it allows you to just relax and enjoy the planning for your new life.
Planning a wedding and getting married is such an exciting time in your life - have fun, enjoy and relax! All too soon, you'll be looking at your wedding album and wondering how it all went by so fast.
