It’s funny, because when I’ve asked my married friends where we should start planning a wedding, I get all sorts of answers. Many say “budget,” which makes perfect sense, as we all know these things cost money. Other say “guest list,” which obviously affects the budget. Others say “start with what is important to you,” but in our case that would be a horrible place to start in that we’d probably start thinking about music, clothes and food and get distracted and spend all our wedding money on CDs and shoes and great restaurants instead and end up never getting married (how’s that for a run-on sentence).
But the one thing people didn’t say was that it’s important to set a schedule upfront for how you will plan your wedding. This past weekend we sat down to schedule out all the critical things that need to get done by our November wedding, and it really got us talking about what is important to each of us.
For example, when we thought about a deadline for asking people to be in the wedding party, it made us think if we actually wanted one. Both Groomasaurus Gal and I are in our 40s, and we have so many fabulous friends that it seemed a crime to choose only a few to be up there with us. We’re still considering the options, but it gave us pause to think about our priorities and how traditional a wedding ceremony we wanted.
In addition, scheduling everything out also made us think about how we were going to pay for everything over the next 8 months. When you start seeing deadlines for picking music and flowers and the like, you also begin considering how much money to save and if you can pay things off earlier so you don’t get hit with 28 big fat bills all at the same time (and since it’s tax day today, hopefully you all aren’t getting hit with big bills of your own).
Anyways, that’s all something to consider…
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