5 tips on how to not be a bridezilla on your wedding day

Planning a wedding can turn even the gentlest, most soft-spoken bride into a crazed, over-emotional and impatient witch. When you allow the stress and pressure get to you so much could mean that you end up becoming a bridezilla.

If you’re getting married soon, here are a few tips to help you avoid turning into a Bridezilla.

1. Invest in a wedding planner

It’s a good idea to hire a wedding planner and relinquish most of the planning duties to them so you can avoid making yourself and others overworked and ending up with frayed, oversensitive nerves.

2. Seek help from friends

Wedding planning is much more fun when done with close friends, who will serve as your all-around support group and perpetual source of second opinion. But it is also necessary to ignore all unnecessary input.

3. Be flexible

Your wedding is not the priority of everyone in the world so no matter how much of an importance you attach to it, some person will just not be so invested in it as you.

Remember that your wedding schedule will conflict with someone else’s and that you don’t have any right to be angry or freak out if someone can’t make it.

Also, you should be OK to the idea that you may not get the exact weekend that you wanted, and that there might be need to do a lot of second choices.

Instead of throwing a tantrum at all these, make the necessary changes and make the best of the moment.

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4. Make your wedding personal

It’s a bad idea to compare your wedding to another person’s. Whether it was a wedding you watched on TV or one you attended, don’t let it be too much of a guide on how yours should go.

Make it personal. Each wedding is just as individual as the person who’s getting married and when you compare your wedding to someone else’s you start to second-guess your ideas.

5. No event overload

Another way to avoid a potential freak out is to keep the pre-wedding events to a minimum.  You don’t have to have an engagement party, a bridal party, a bachelorette party, a wedding party party, and an after party party.  No matter how much your friends and family love you, wedding exhaustion and resentment will set in if your wedding celebrations start to take over their lives as well.

6. Don’t expect perfection

Something is very likely going to go wrong. Just expect it so that when the inevitable hiccup comes during your big day, you can just let it roll off your back.

7. Calm down and have some fun

When all is said and done, all anyone is going to remember is whether or not your wedding was fun. No one is going to remember how you wore your hair, what the centerpieces looked like, or how your “save the date” wasn’t sent when some silly wedding magazine told you it should have been sent.

If you do the whole marriage thing right, you’ll only have one wedding, so make it a fun.