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How To Get Excited About Planning Your Wedding Again – East London Wedding Planner

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If the initial engagement vibes have begun to wear off, and you’re overwhelmed by the onslaught of wedding planning decisions you need to make leading up to your wedding day. In that case, you’re not alone. Below, Marsha from Mollineau Weddings and Events will share her advice on how to get excited about planning your wedding again.

What To Do When You’re Totally Over Wedding Planning

As an East London wedding planner, I know from personal experience how easy it is to let your self-care and motivation slip away during this hectic time. Still, it’s an essential component to prevent stressful planning and everything spiralling out of control.

How Do I Stop Being Overwhelmed With My Wedding Planning?

If your wedding planning to-do list takes up all of your time, you do not know what to do next, or the well-intentioned “how’s the wedding planning going” remarks make you want to shut down and hide, I recommend you hit the pause button now!

Please grab a cup of coffee, your favourite biscuits, curl up on the sofa, and delve into my five sanity-saving tips to help you get your wedding planning back on track. I’ll be sharing invaluable solutions to make your wedding planning process enjoyable. Follow my wedding planning advice, and you’ll be counting down the days until your “I do’s” feeling confident and stress-free in no time.

1. Tackle Each Wedding Planning Task In Order Of Importance To You

Suppose you’re looking for ways to get excited about planning your wedding planning again. First things first! Before tackling your wedding task list, you must first rediscover your wedding purpose and prioritise. This process will involve you and your better half uncovering why you decided to have a wedding in the first place. I recommend you decide on no more than three priorities for your big day and make a pact not to stress over anything that falls outside of those priorities.

I always encourage my brides and grooms-to-be to focus on just one task at a time; this prevents information overload and limits confusion caused by all the different options, which often leads to you second-guessing yourself. Trust me; you’ve got this!

If you’d like a helping hand, then a wedding planning session with Mollineau Weddings & Events can assist you. I’m always available to reassure you about where to start, apportioning your budget or talk through anything else causing you to worry. Simply arrange a complimentary consultation here.

2. Set Realistic Deadlines For Completion & Celebrate Your Wins

At Mollineau Weddings & Events, we’re known to have planned weddings in 8 weeks; however, it is very rare. For instance, there’s a high possibility that You will not plan your wedding in a week. So take your time. You don’t want to set yourself up for failure by procrastinating.

If you want to get excited about planning your wedding planning again. I suggest you create a basic timeline centred around your availability. Include all of your tasks which should be actioned by priority. When you accomplish a task, give yourself a special treat to stay motivated. Perhaps a favourite chocolate bar, a picnic in the park or a trip to your favourite restaurant. The choice is yours.

If you do not have time to action, all tasks within your timeline and wedding planning has ground to a halt. You may benefit from delegating a few errands to a professional wedding planner. Consider making contact sooner rather than later.

3. Go Off The Grid

It’s important to sign off from wedding planning when you want or need to. I recommend you set up a dedicated email for wedding planning purposes and communication. That way if it all feels that the planning is getting too much, you can switch on your out-of-office reply and go off the grid for a week or two without running the risk of missing important communication from your pre-wedding planning lives.

I know it sounds extreme. But not looking at your social media accounts, wedding emails, or colossal binder filled with the paperwork you’ve collected over the years will do you some good!

Use the downtime as a necessary period to enjoy some non-wedding fun with your friends, self-care, or do whatever else you’d like to do to relax.

If my clients don’t feel motivated to attend a low key outing, I send them a bottle of champagne and a box of chocolates. Gently encouraging them to take at least one night off and agree not to talk about wedding planning. It’s an excellent opportunity to reconnect and remember what it was like before wedding planning took over your lives.

If you’ve already tried some relaxing activities and still found yourself fixating on the latest wedding hurdle. You might want to take an entirely different approach by releasing some endorphins! Get your adrenaline pumping by going for a swim, boxercise, or some extreme sport may help get rid of your frustration.

4. Outsource Some Of Your Responsibilities

If you find going off the grid, relaxation or releasing endorphins doesn’t help; it’s time to outsource!

Wedding planning burnout is common and usually means that you are not delegating enough. Please chat with your better half, establish what is taking too much of your time, and entrust it to a professional. For example, is your household chores or walking the dog are taking up too much of your time? If yes, hiring a temporary cleaner or subscribing to a dog walking service could be the silver bullet to reclaiming your time. If all fails, it’s time to arrange a consultation with a wedding planner.

5. Get Support Managing Your Anxiety

The best way to handle the mentally trying aspects of your wedding planning journey is to take measured steps to prepare yourself and address any concerns you foresee as early as possible.

Weddings are emotional, high-stress situations. It’s easy to get overwhelmed by societal pressure, family expectations, not to mention the hefty price tag!

So if after all the advice I’ve given you still feel worried about the whole experience. Or your excitement about getting married has plummeted to the point of no return – don’t stress.

The good news is that with some advanced planning and some help from a professional therapist, there are so many ways to make your wedding planning journey a little more manageable. Just drop me a line if you’d like a recommendation from the UK. I know an excellent therapist who’d love to help.

How To Get Excited About Planning Your Wedding Again

And that’s a wrap guys! In summary, my 5 tops tips on how to get excited planning your wedding again.

Tackle one thing at a time during your planning and be methodical
Celebrate your wins! Have regular rest bite and keep your relationship a top priority.
Create a joint wedding email account, so it’s separate from personal stuff, don’t forget to separate your social media accounts or switch off notifications.
Outsource to a professional.
It’s ok not to be ok! A therapist can help if you need advice on managing your worries.

Drop me a line if you’ve found my advice helpful.

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Written By Marsha Mollineau-Griffiths | Award-Winning East London Wedding Planner

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Mollineau Weddings & Events Celebrate National Coffee Day

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What Your Coffee Says About Your Wedding Planning Personality?

Happy National Coffee Day! To celebrate National Coffee day, professional wedding planner pictured above from Mollineau Weddings & Events, reveals how the way you take your coffee can shape your wedding planning experience.

That’s right! The type of coffee you order may reveal more about your wedding planning personality than you think. For most of my busy brides-to-be at Mollineau Weddings & Events, a cup of coffee is a must-have in their wedding planning routines. It’s the first thing they drink when we meet up — but that’s where the similarities stop. Professional London Wedding Planner Marsha explains further.

Dark & Lovely – The Blacker, The Better

If you take your coffee “dark & lovely”. I hate to be the one to break this to you, but you might be a Bridezilla (oh, oh… don’t shoot the messenger). Or, more likely, you’re just a straight-talker who wants her wedding planning journey to be super-efficient.

You’ll likely find the whole wedding planning experience a little overwhelming because you don’t like change and prefer to keep things simple so that you don’t have to stray from your usual order of things. Don’t panic; all will be ok; as long as you have your water and beans at the ready. You’ll have a wonderful wedding planning experience and a fantastic wedding day.

To get things off to a good start, it’s best you engage with a wedding planner – the earlier, the better. Our professional wedding planners at Mollineau Weddings & Events will help you cover all of the wedding planning areas you’re most concerned about. A wedding planning session will offer simple yet handy tips that can help your wedding planning process run smoothly and efficiently. We’re all about reducing levels and saving you time.

Want a little reassurance that you’re moving in the right direction? Marsha our London wedding consultant is available for you to speak to this week. Simply, schedule a complimentary call here.

The Classic Light & Sweet Combo!

The classic people-pleasing bride. You’re always putting your family and guests’ needs before your own. I mean, why else would someone who likes a little flavour in her life still stick with the two classic ingredients that are always on hand just about anywhere in the world (milk and sugar).

It’s ok, your coffee may be simple but it’s not dull and it’s very reliable, just like you. Beware! Putting the needs of others before your own may prove to be just as much of a detriment as it is a skill. Trust me I’m talking from experience. People pleasing takes time and energy. Time and energy you could be spending on enjoying all the fun that wedding planning brings.

Most of our modern couples at Mollineau Weddings & Events are used to inviting unsolicited opinions in their life. However, firstly, unsolicited views combined with the compulsive need to try and satisfy as many people as possible all at the same time can spiral out of control and, secondly, ruin your wedding planning experience.

Don’t get me wrong! Your wedding will be amazing! And your wedding guests can’t wait to see & enjoy all of your hard work in its glory. However it’s best you have a wedding planner by your side, as your guest needs will constantly be changing throughout your wedding planning journey.

And you’ll need a professional planner from Mollineau Weddings & Events to handle those last-minute tweaks in the days leading up to your spectacular wedding day. If you think this sounds like you – I’d love to hear from you; simply schedule a catch up at your convenience here.

All Things Sweet

Ahhh. You’re as sweet as can be — and you like your coffee to match. I suspect you’re not going to take your wedding planning journey too seriously. It’s likely your wedding day theme will be ever-evolving as you like to be spontaneous. For you, it’s easier to order a simple coffee and spruce things up with sachets of sugar or syrup as and when you need to.

Top tip: Be careful and look out for those predictable sugar/wedding planning slumps that sometimes make you grumpy and indecisive (remember, what goes up must come down!).

A London wedding coordinator will offer you that much needed pick me up in the run-up to your wedding day. And it’s best you book one early to avoid disappointment. I’m waiting for your call.

Hot Water Is Fine

The generous, warm-hearted bride, constantly worrying about the workload she’s delegated to her bridal party and compensates her guilt with generosity.

Top Tip – Keep an eye on your bottom line as you’re kind gestures could become very costly. Already think you’ll be over budget? Schedule a budget setting session today; we’d love to get your wedding budget back on track.

Decaf Only, Please

How will you survive this wedding planning phase? Quite easily! Hire a partial wedding planner or invest in our wedding planning power hours. I understand that you’ll feel more comfortable planning your wedding and want to be in control throughout, so our wedding planning hours are designed so that you can check in with our professional planner Marsha as and when you need to.

Schedule A Coffee With Mollineau Weddings & Events

Tell me, how do you take your coffee and how’s your wedding planning experience been so far?

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Written By Marsha Mollineau-Griffiths | Award-Winning East London Wedding Planner

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