Deciding to plan your wedding all by yourself can become overwhelming. Wedding planners tend to make the process a lot easier, but if you opt for a DIY wedding, you need to be prepared for numerous challenges and learn to work your way around various setbacks that will potentially happen along the way. What you absolutely must remember is that you shouldn’t let any of the potential bumps in the road stress you out too much. While stress is inevitable to a certain extent, we have a few suggestions on how to have the ultimate stress-free wedding and enjoy both the planning process and the wedding day.

DIY Wedding Tips

Do the research

Once you decide you’re going to be your own wedding planner, you need to start the research. If you don’t already have the picture of the perfect dress in your mind, start looking online or through wedding magazines. You can find wonderful inspiration for your save the dates, invitations and the entire wedding stationery, including place cards. Look for the wedding venue, browse through the different color palettes to find the perfect one for your big day. It would be best if you started at least a year before the wedding date because you’ll need to book the venue 9 to 12 months in advance.

Make a calendar

Organization is the key to having a successful DIY wedding, which is why you should make a schedule of all the duties you need to fulfill during the wedding planning. Deadlines are not always fun, but it’ll help you stay organized and complete task after task in a timely fashion, keeping all the stress at bay. The minute you start piling up tasks over your head, rushing through everything, and doing it last minute, you’ll become stressed out. Therefore, think about the elements that need to be completed first, and schedule them in your calendar. From ordering invitations to having a dress fitting and going venue hunting, you need to have everything scheduled.

Put together lists

Some days you’ll have more than one task on your plate, so think about putting together to-do lists. This type of organization is perfect for wedding planning because you won’t ever forget to order flowers, go dessert tasting or listen to the band you want to hire for your nuptials if you only put it on the list. A notebook will help you keep up with all the tasks, including supplies, tools, and costs, what you need to make, alongside information about your wedding venues, vendors, and contact details. Once a certain task is done you simply check it off the list, and you won’t have to worry about stressing out once in the entire wedding planning process.

Look into everyone’s DIY skills

A DIY wedding is a great opportunity for your friends and family to jump in and show off their unique skills. From baking cakes to arts and crafts, you’ll probably have numerous offers from all of your cousins and bridesmaids to help you out with your big day planning. However, you need to keep in mind that this is your big day and that if everything is not perfect, it’s not good enough. Your friend might be handy in making delicious canapes for family gatherings, but if that’s not how you imagined your food to look like for your big day, dismiss their offer and look for delicious and affordable catering services in Sydney that will provide you with the best food in the city and leave everyone in awe with their exquisite specialties.

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Be meticulous

Make sure you know all the details when hiring vendors. Don’t rely only on photos of catering but make sure you taste it and see for yourself it tastes as good as it looks. Get references, sample products and don’t be afraid to ask questions. Don’t risk getting a band whose lead singer cracks bad jokes, but check them out when they perform on other locations, and look them up online, ask around if anyone else has hired them before and what were their impressions. You want to get the best for your money, so you’ll need to be diligent with vendors.

Final thoughts…

A DIY wedding is anything but easy, so you’ll need to be organized if you want to avoid stressing out every other day. Do the research, make a calendar, put together lists, look into everyone’s DIY skills and be meticulous to make sure you’re having a perfect stress-free wedding.

About the Author – Jasmine Anderson

Jasmine is a lifestyle and beauty blogger based in Australia. She is an incurable daydreamer, who finds inspiration in little, everyday moments. Spending time at her cozy home office with her two cats, writing her blog, is her favorite thing in the world. |Twitter