18 Things All Brides Worry About

No matter how chill and not-bridezilla-y you are about this whole getting-married thing, you can't help but worry about, well, a bunch of stuff.1. Whether or not it will rain on your wedding day. Every bride knows that 10-day forecasts are totally meaningless! It can go from zero percent chance of rain to 60 percent in the span of, like, an hour just two days before the wedding. You and your family will download more weather apps and frequent more weather websites than you ever imagined existed.

2. Booking a venue for a "good" date. You love that one place but, even though your wedding is a full year away, they're only available on Sundays. Is it wrong to have a wedding on a Sunday? Is that inconsiderate to guests who have to travel? What about all those people you know who had weddings on holiday weekends when it was a million bucks to travel and inconvenient all around?

3. How many people to invite. There's always the chance Aunt Martha will actually make the trek from her far (far away) home along with her four kids. Everyone says unexpected RSVPs are real, but are they really real?

4. Who should get plus ones. Relatedly, what do you say to the people who you don't award plus ones to but who ask to bring a date after invitations get sent out?

5. Budget. Why does tent draping cost over N800,000? Why do chuppa rentals cost N100,000? We're talking about oversized bed sheets and a few sticks in the ground.

6. Your dress fitting properly on the day. If you eat a few extra cookies Wednesday and your wedding is Saturday, will the dress be too tight? If you don't eat enough, will it be too loose? It fit you perfectly last time you saw the tailor but what if you get salt bloat and it gets so tight you can't breathe?

7. Your dress getting shipped on time. The store said they've never had a problem with shipping dresses, but what if there's a freak hurricane and all shipping comes to an abrupt halt? As every bride knows, the weather is totally unpredictable!

8. Your feet hurting in your bride shoes, which you can't break in. Sometimes even two gel insoles don't work. Will you have to be the bride who takes off her shoes when everyone's at their drunkest? You hope not.

9. Tripping on the way down the aisle. You don't exactly get dressed up like this every day. What if it doesn't agree with you when you're super nervous? And then you fall and your flower petal aisle runner stains your dress red?

10. Whether guests will keep on dancing till the world ends. This is every bride and groom's fantasy, but what if your playlist doesn't work?

11. How much your bridesmaids will have to spend on dresses, the bachelorette party, travel, etc. You don't want to be the bride whose wedding everyone hated being involved in. Though chances are if you're worried about it at all, you won't be.

12. Your friends embarrassing you during toasts. What dark thing have they remembered about you that you've forgotten? Hopefully you won't find out at your wedding!

13. When you cut the cake, your husband rubbing it all over your face even though you asked him not to. Chocolate cake + super expensive white gown = DON'T RUB IT ON MY FACE. This is cute only in rom-coms where everything's fake anyway.

14. Consuming coloured beverages. Everyone with red wine must keep a 10-foot distance.

15. Ditto coloured foods. Butter-poached lobster is clear, right?

16. Whether or not the food will be bad. If the caterer or venue prides itself on "seasonal" cuisine, you have to wait until, like, three weeks before the wedding to taste it. Also, what if you taste it and it's great and then at the wedding they mistake the salt for sugar? What if catering quality is secretly as unpredictable as the weather?

17. If you'll be sad when it's all over. Wedding planning keeps you busy in a way that can be unpleasant, but you spend a year on it and become so used to it that what if you actually miss it? #ProTip: This is what honeymoons are for. To make you forget that you're not wedding planning anymore and make it feel like you just took a long vacation when you get back to normal life.

18. How long you can politely put off writing thank-you notes. You know none of your friends give a hoot whether or not you send a handwritten card in the mail or not but Aunt Martha might say something to your mom.