My Best Friends Wedding(s)
It seems that nearly three years after my own wedding I've officially become a wedding expert. Mind you, this has nothing to do with my own wedding. As the first one from my group to get married I was like the weird "wedding litmus" test that was used to figure out how it should be done. In a way it was unfair but at the same time necessary. With no prior experience I was left thinking "how the heck do you plan a wedding anyway?" Well, thanks to my wedding now everyone knows what to do and what not to do.
I got married early, but now that everyone else seems to be getting married around the same time I've become the go-to friend for planning a wedding. I'm currently in three wedding parties (one best woman or whatever that's called) and have taken an integral part in planning all three weddings. Because of this I currently know everything you would ever want to know about the wedding process. Want to know what Jewelers in Newport Beach to get your wedding rings from? Just ask me, I know that. Want to not only know where the best place to have your reception is but also the best time of day to call and negotiate a price? I know that too. I should open my own wedding service I know so much darn information. Since the average person only uses 8% of their brain I'm sure that it's forced out some useful information that I need on a daily basis (where are my keys?).
How did I learn this information, you might ask? Good ol' fashion research. And I'm talking more than just going on Google and putting in "how to do a wedding" I'm talking reading books, researching articles, tons of phone calls, etc. Looking back at my wedding I can say one mistake I made was that I trusted uninformed friends and family members too much. As a bride or groom you need to trust your own instincts. I know that that makes you seem like bridezilla or a groomzilla, but sometimes you have to just go with your heart. Look, I didn't have a bad wedding or anything, but there was too much drama and broken promises leading up to it. What I tried to give my friends was an easy lead up filled with good thoughts and few arguments.
The key to this, I found, was to just think though every decision in order and not try and get too far ahead of yourself. Don't start thinking about the flowers until you've decided on the reception hall and have the booking in stone. Don't decide on a ring until you know what you want. It's easier to plan someone else's wedding then your own, but you have to make sure the soon to be husband and wife are in every decision. It's easy to plan a good wedding you just have to use your brain more than your heart.
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Author Kimberly Green often searches jewelers newport beach looking for bargains for her friends.
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