Tips for having fun on your wedding day:

1) Hire a coordinator. You don’t need to be bothered with a hundred questions while you’re trying to get dressed. Let a coordinator handle the logistics of your day.

2) Don’t sweat the small stuff. If it won’t matter 10 years from now, don’t stress over it. Not everything will be perfect. Your bouquet might not be perfect. It might rain. Something will break. Someone will be late. But 10 years from now, you’ll be just as married, and none of those things will matter.

3) Trust your vendors. Hire actual wedding professionals. Find the most experienced vendors you can in every category. A newbie can be fine when everything is going right, but an experienced vendor will know how to handle business when things go wrong. Trust your vendors to do their job. Don’t feel like you need to micromanage them. If you do, you hired the wrong ones.

4) Hire a hairstylist and a makeup artist. You probably aren’t a professional hair stylist or makeup artist. Even if you are, you need to let someone do your hair and makeup where they can stand back and make sure everything looks just right. Makeup for photography is MUCH different than makeup for the office. Once the flash hits you, “natural light makeup” doesn’t work. Neither does shiny based makeup. Wrong makeup, or a hairstyle that’s in your face, can ruin your entire look. Besides, it’s your wedding day. Get pampered.

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