The 2007 Wedding Season Has Officially Begun
We have just passed the 3rd of the top three most popular days to get engaged, Valentines Day and with that, the wedding season officially kicks off. Brides everywhere are working on creating that special day that they will remember for the rest of their lives. Here are some interesting facts:
- The average U.S. Bride will spend $27,134 on her wedding. That does not include the engagement ring or honeymoon.
- 85% of Brides will plan some or all of their wedding on the Internet
- The average age of today's Bride is 27
- 80% of U.S. Brides are getting married for the first time
Of the 2.5 million weddings (Which makes the Wedding Industry an almost $68 Billion Dollar industry in the U.S. alone), the average Bride is faced with making large dollar decisions and purchases which she has never made before. In fact she is usually spending someone else's (Her Mom & Dad's, fiancé's, or other close relative's) money. This can unnerve most of us. (can you think back to the time when you had to buy a dress that cost around $2-4,000 that you would only wear one day, or when you spent a similar amount of money on photography for just you or your family?)
Here are some tips and pointers to help out that Bride and keep her "Wedding Planning Stress" to a minimum:
1. Decide what is important and what is not up front. By doing this, you will not waste time on the trivial and spend you efforts where they are most needed.
2. Communicate up front with your fiancé and those closest to you that you are facing one of the 5 most stressful events in your life and if you snap at them, or have a breakdown, it's the stress, not them.
3. Set down and understand up front what your wedding budget is. This step will help you to Budget the important to the top of the list as well as help you to not create further stress in anyone who is helping fund your wedding.
4. Plan for "time-outs" during the engagement. Have a couple of week ends off or plan a quick get away where you decompress. Plan on not planning for a period of two or more days. This will help to relaxing your "wedding planning" muscles and get you to be able to focus better.
5. Use the internet as much as you can to save travel time, communication time as well as finding the best vendors possible. Emails spend less time than phone calls and are not as urgent.
Keep your eye on the prize-you are marrying the person you love and want to spend the rest of your life together. The most important thing is having the two of you show up and say "I Do". Everything else is icing on the cake!
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Rick Brewer has been intimately involved in the wedding industry for over 16 years from working one on one with over 300 Brides to working with over 400 Wedding Professionals from all walks and services of the Wedding Industry. Rick can be reached via email at nostresswedding@aol.com
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