Your wedding day is a mere 4 to 6 months away, and all the planning and details begin to pile on.  Anxiety builds and all of a sudden you realize the level of stress you feel as you try to ensure that everything comes together perfectly.  As a wedding officiant, this is often when I begin to hear from my couples how they wish they had eloped! 

So I am simply repeating here what I say to the people I work with and have offered in a previous blog...BREATHE!  All the wedding details and decisions from transportation, accommodations, flowers, cakes, seating charts, and the list goes on...can cause you to push into the background what this day is really about: A celebration and honoring of your love and willingness to enter into a commitment with your life partner.   

So here is the easiest and simplest of wedding planning tips: Get several sticky notes and on each one write the following:  This day is about celebrating and honoring our commitment to each other! Take a breath and smile!

Keep these on your desk, in your car, on your wedding notebook or file if you have one and even your bathroom mirror.  You can enjoy the planning of all the little details with a reduced level of stress if you simply remember that what people remember and speak about for the years to come is the specialness of the day...the ceremony, the fun they have and mostly the time they shared with you, their family and friends!