December 14, 2023 • 14 mins
Are stress-free weddings just a myth? Let's debunk this together! I, Emily Decloux, take you on a personal journey of planning a wedding with minimal stress. It's not all roses and rainbows, but it's definitely not impossible. From tackling the most daunting tasks to not letting small hiccups affect the overall experience - we've got it all covered. I also share personal anecdotes, tips, and practical advice based on my experiences to help you avoid falling into the stress trap.
Transform wedding planning from a stressful endeavour to a joy-filled journey with me! This episode is not just about managing stress, but about infusing joy into every step. I share my insights on maintaining the joy factor amidst all the planning chaos. And look, I’m not going to sugar coat it, there will be stressful moments. But they don’t need to be end of the world earth shattering events, or catastrophic relationship ending ordeals. In this episode we’re going to talk about:
- You get to choose what stresses you out.
- Always budget for miscellaneous expenses
- Remove toxic people from your existence
- Plan for your plans to not go how you planned
- Don’t leave things to the last minute.
- Focus on the big picture
You can have a stress free wedding if you CHOOSE to. But you gotta choose it, friend!
Highlights:
00:01 Intro
00:30 Planning a stress free wedding is a pipe dream
02:44 Letting yourself be stressed out
03:34 You get to choose what stresses you out
05:04 Always budget for miscellaneous expenses
06:03 Remove toxic people from your existence
08:13 Plan for your plans to not go how you planned
09:22 Don’t leave things to the last minute
10:58 Focus on the big picture
If you found this episode useful I’d be so grateful if you followed and shared this episode with a friend, or your fiance! If you have questions about staying present and I’d be happy to share what I know to help, drop me an email at emily@joyfactorweddings.com! I’ll be back next Thursday with another wedding planning episode, so until then keep it joyful!
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
You're listening to Joyful Wedding Planning your
spot for de-stressing andrelaxing while you plan your
wedding.
You might be thinking is thateven possible?
Well, heck, yeah it is.
I'm your host, emily DeCluv,founder of the Joy Factor
Weddings and Events, and I'mhere to help you plan the
wedding of your dreams joyfully,whether you're a DIYer or a
(00:24):
delegator, this podcast willhelp you find the Joy Factor as
you plan your wedding.
It is impossible to have astress free wedding, so just
forget it.
Okay, jk, it's totally possible, and I'm gonna tell you how to
plan a mostly stress freewedding.
Hey, I'm Emily DeCluv.
(00:45):
I'm founder of the Joy Factor,a wedding and events planning
company based in Toronto servingcouples…couples Globally.
I release new podcasts everyThursday to bring the Joy Factor
into your wedding planning, somake sure to hit that follow
button wherever you get yourpodcasts.
Everyone everywhere will tellyou that planning a stress free
wedding is a pipe dream, but I'mhere to tell you that that's
(01:07):
not actually the case.
Look, I know there's a lot ofemotion tied up into our
weddings, and for good reasontoo.
You're professing your love toyour person in front of
literally everybody you know, oryou've been dreaming about this
perfect day forever, or yourfamily's, maybe traveling in
from out of town and maybe youhaven't seen them in years.
Of course you want everythingto be perfect, but that is like
(01:28):
a massive load of stress to puton yourself.
Look, I'm not gonna sugarcoatit.
There will be stressful moments, but they don't have to be like
the most stressful ordeals ofall time ever, like relationship
ending, like doom and gloom,like apocalyptic situations.
It just doesn't have to be likethat.
So this is the second episodein a series where I'm talking
(01:50):
about sort of like the mindsetbehind planning your wedding.
I think this is gonna be athree part series, not 100% sure
yet, but, like I said, everyThursday I drop new videos, so
stay tuned for more.
Okay, so when I was planning mywedding, the most stressful
thing that I had to deal withwas renting chairs, and I was
catering the entire thing bymyself, and I made my husband's
(02:12):
jacket and I did a thousand DIYprojects and none of them even
came close to how stressful itwas to order some stupid chairs.
I let myself panic for threedays straight trying to figure
out which company would fit intoour budget, which one would
deliver at the correct time,because we only had the venue
for a certain amount of time,which one would pick up on the
(02:35):
same day.
Would we have to go pick up thechairs ourselves and then bring
them back?
But how is that gonna work,because I wanna have some
champagne on my wedding day.
Do I have to be responsible forthis?
I don't wanna put that onanybody else either.
What am I gonna do?
Obviously, there was a solution,because in the end we got the
chairs.
I just had to pay a little bitof extra cash for them.
Yeah, you know what ate into mybudget a little bit, but it was
(02:58):
so much better than lettingmyself be eaten alive by the
stress of not knowing, like, howdo I get these chairs on this
like super tiny little budgetthat I've allocated for myself
and, by the way, $250 is aridiculous amount of money to
budget for chairs.
But here's the thing eventhough I was letting myself be
(03:19):
stressed out and notice that I'msaying like I let myself be
stressed out I knew a solutionwould present itself eventually.
I just kept repeating that overand over in my head like a
solution will present itself.
A solution will present itself,and it did.
Like I said, we just shelledout a little bit of extra cash
for the chairs.
And after that whole ordeal oflike letting myself be that
ridiculously stressed out, Imade a promise to myself.
(03:41):
I'm like I'm not going to letthis get the better of me
anymore.
I know there's always asolution to this stuff.
I'm an event planner with over10 years of experience.
There is always, always asolution.
Sometimes they're wildsolutions, but there is always a
solution.
So I'm just not going to letmyself get that anywhere near
that level of stressed outanymore about my wedding,
(04:03):
because I really want it to be anice day, and I'm sure you feel
the same way.
And this brings me to pointnumber one of planning a stress
free wedding.
Point number one you get tochoose what stresses you out.
Actually, it's a fact and, likewhen I first heard about this
concept, I was like there's noway in hell.
(04:23):
Like there there are thingsthat are out of my control, that
are absolutely stressing me out, like work, for example, or
other people's opinions aboutthings, or what is what?
Is my new family going to thinkof this or what is my family
going to think of that?
And the fact of the matter isthat if it's out of my control,
(04:43):
I don't need to worry about it.
Like I can choose to not worryabout those types of things and
this is a skill you're probablygoing to have to practice a
little bit before it starts tomake sense to you.
Like it took me about a yearfor this to actually make sense.
Like I get to choose what I dealwith in the day and what, what
bothers me, like what I letbother me, like.
(05:04):
Like if I let an email that wasa little bit snarky from a
vendor bother me, I wouldprobably never move on with
anything in my life.
But there comes a certain pointwhere you just have to say,
well, that person must be havinga crappy day, too bad for them.
I guess Doop, doop, doop, doop.
You know what I mean.
You have to be able to letyourself choose the things that
(05:27):
get to you Like water off aduck's back, and I'm going to
share a little bit more abouthow to not get into the weeds of
worrying about specific thingsa little bit later in this video
.
Point number two always budgetfor miscellaneous items like
chairs.
I know I'm herping on the chairthing, but this was truly like
my biggest stressor the wholetime my three day stress oh,
(05:53):
you're always going to haveextra things.
I had so many more than Ianticipated for myself just
because, like, I came up withnew ideas and I was like, well,
this is going to be cooler if Ido it like this, or I want this
particular type of manicureinstead of the $40 one.
So, always just have a littleextra slush fund that you can
use in order to make these newideas come to fruition.
(06:14):
Or maybe things that you forgot, like wedding favors all of a
sudden oh shoot, I didn't budgettwo to $5 per person to give
them a little something to takeaway at the end of the wedding.
What am I going to do?
Having extra money available isjust going to make your life a
lot less stressful, but isn'tthat the same with life?
Money?
(06:36):
Point number three remove toxicpeople from your existence, if
at all possible.
I know this is in 100% possibleall the time, but again, it's
choosing to let things get toyou.
However, if you have the optionto say like I don't want to go
with this particular vendor,they're like triggering
something ridiculous in me, andevery time I get an email from
(06:58):
them, I feel like my heart'sjumping into my throat and I
want to cry Just cancel it.
There might be a deposit thatyou have to let go of, but trust
me, it is so much more worthyour happiness and your joy for
your wedding day to just cancela service and like let it go.
Yeah, it does suck to let go ofsome of that money, but that's
(07:19):
the sunk cost fallacy.
That's what my husband's alwaysreminding me, emily, it's the
sunk cost fallacy.
You don't need to do that thingyou said you were going to do,
that you hate just because youpaid 20 bucks for it.
You know what I mean.
Now, some people in your lifemight be a little anxiety
inducing.
Perhaps it's your mom, perhapsit's your new mother-in-law,
perhaps it's another familymember, or it's your maid of
(07:41):
honor.
It could be so many differentpeople that all have to do with
your wedding day and you have towork closely with them.
So what are some strategiesthat you can do to work with the
anxiety that they present youwith?
First of all, think about whatthey must be going through with
the day.
Having some sort of emotionalempathy for a person can really
(08:02):
really help.
Second, you can choose aattitude of gratitude, which is
probably really annoying ifyou're at a super stressed out
level right now, but it doeshelp.
Can you find five things you'regrateful for for this person?
What are they helping you withwith the wedding?
Are they following through oncertain tasks?
And you know what?
(08:22):
If they're not followingthrough on other tasks, maybe
you could say hey, I noticedyou're really busy.
I don't want to stress you out,I'm going to take this on and
don't even worry about it.
You could give it to somebodyelse.
They don't need to know, butstill it's.
You're going to find ways tolike remove the toxic anxiety,
feelings and sensations fromyour life, because it's going to
make it a lot easier for you tocontinue on planning your
(08:44):
wedding joyfully.
Point number four plan for yourplans to not go as they planned.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Listen, every single event hassomething wild going on with it.
I've never, ever, had like aquote, unquote, perfect event
and I know that that's just notthe reality.
The reality is people aredelayed like by grandparents got
(09:08):
stuck in traffic on the way tomy brother's wedding, so our
dinner was delayed by 15 and 20minutes.
Really not the end of the world, but there is already an
expectation that things mayshift.
They just do.
Or maybe you forgot a reallyimportant, essential piece of
your ceremony and you're like,oh shit, maybe I don't have a
very important prop that Iwanted.
(09:29):
You have to kind of choose inthat moment if it's going to
make your life better or worse,to let it go, to let the plan
that you planned for unplanneditself.
But again, this comes down toyou and your attitude.
Are you letting these thingsget to you, are you allowing
them to permeate your amazing,wonderful aura, or are you
(09:51):
letting it kind of bounce off ofyou?
The choice is really yours.
Point number five do not letthings go till the last minute.
Make a plan with your fianceand with yourself and a promise
to each other that you're notgoing to let things slide.
You're not going to do stuff atthe very last second, because
having a whole bunch of thingsthat you could have been doing
(10:12):
intermittently the monthsleading up to your wedding, like
all stacked up the day beforeyour wedding, that is a recipe
for disaster and sadness andstress beyond belief, like I
would.
I would be like what?
How do I live?
What is my existence, what am Igoing to do?
It's terrible, but then I'vehad so much experience planning
these types of events that I'mlike okay, things really need to
(10:34):
be done in a sequential order,with plenty of time allocated to
them, like more than enough,especially if you're DIYing, to
make sure that it all gets done.
And if you need help with that,I can definitely help you plan
your DIY wedding and make surethat, like you have an amazing
schedule of like, the cake needsto be baked today, the brownies
(10:56):
need to be baked tomorrow andI'm talking real DIY, because
that's how I did my wedding.
If you're starting to noticethat things are sliding, make
sure that you have a plan inplace with your fiance to say
this is what we're going to doif we notice that things aren't
getting done on schedule.
These are the things we'regoing to drop.
This is how we're going torearrange our schedule in order
(11:18):
to get things done.
Knowing in advance that thingsmight not go exactly as you
planned it for your plans Alsowill really help to relieve a
lot of the stress.
And that brings me to pointnumber six focus on the big
picture.
Remember earlier I said I'mgoing to share how to not let
all the nitty gritty things tieyou down.
(11:38):
It is by focusing on the bigpicture.
What is, what is the feelingyou want on the day?
What do you want to be feelingat each moment when you're
planning out your itinerary orwhen you're reviewing the one
that your event planner sent you?
What is it that you, how do youwant to be emotionally involved
with it?
And what is the main outcomewhen you're looking at all of
(12:00):
your pictures later, or yourvideo later, how do you want
everything to feel when you'relooking at those pictures?
Because you know, like later on,if you're looking at pictures
of getting ready and you knowthe whole time you were like
monstrously stressed out that'swhat looking at that picture is
going to conjure for you again,and that kind of sucks, and you
(12:20):
don't want that.
You want the whole thing to beas joyful as possible, right?
So shift your focus, if you can.
You know what, like, we all getinto these like little tiny
detail moments.
Shift your focus, if you can,into the big picture, into what
this is really about.
It's about you and your fianceprofessing your love to one
(12:41):
another, signing some documentsand having a great party.
That's what it's all about.
At the end of the day, marriageis a much more complicated
beast than planning a weddingLike don't let it be your
downfall, let it be the thingthat lifts you up.
All that to say you absolutelycan have a stress-free wedding
(13:03):
if you choose to, but you gottachoose it.
So if you found this episodeuseful, I'd be so grateful if
you followed and shared thisepisode with a friend or your
fiance.
If you're feeling like totallystressed and overwhelmed and you
wanna bring the Joy Factor backinto your wedding planning, I
would be so happy to share whatI know to help.
So drop me an email atemilyajoyfactorweddingscom or a
(13:24):
DM on Instagram.
I will be back next Thursdaywith another wedding planning
episode.
So until then, keep it joyful.
["joy Factor Weddings"].
Thanks for listening to JoyfulWedding Planning.
I hope you got something out ofthis episode and, hey, if you
did, leave me a review.
Wherever you listen to yourpodcasts, it helps me to find
(13:44):
more listeners just like you, sothat we can take all the stress
out of wedding planning and gofrom panic to joy-filled moments
.
Need help to plan your wedding?
Book a call with me atjoyfactorweddingscom.
I can't wait to help you planthe wedding of your dreams.
["joy Factor Weddings"].
You're listening to Joyful Wedding Planning your
spot for de-stressing andrelaxing while you plan your
wedding.
You might be thinking is thateven possible?
Well, heck, yeah it is.
I'm your host, emily DeCluv,founder of the Joy Factor
Weddings and Events, and I'mhere to help you plan the
wedding of your dreams joyfully,whether you're a DIYer or a
(00:24):
delegator, this podcast willhelp you find the Joy Factor as
you plan your wedding.
It is impossible to have astress free wedding, so just
forget it.
Okay, jk, it's totally possible, and I'm gonna tell you how to
plan a mostly stress freewedding.
Hey, I'm Emily DeCluv.
(00:45):
I'm founder of the Joy Factor,a wedding and events planning
company based in Toronto servingcouples…couples Globally.
I release new podcasts everyThursday to bring the Joy Factor
into your wedding planning, somake sure to hit that follow
button wherever you get yourpodcasts.
Everyone everywhere will tellyou that planning a stress free
wedding is a pipe dream, but I'mhere to tell you that that's
(01:07):
not actually the case.
Look, I know there's a lot ofemotion tied up into our
weddings, and for good reasontoo.
You're professing your love toyour person in front of
literally everybody you know, oryou've been dreaming about this
perfect day forever, or yourfamily's, maybe traveling in
from out of town and maybe youhaven't seen them in years.
Of course you want everythingto be perfect, but that is like
(01:28):
a massive load of stress to puton yourself.
Look, I'm not gonna sugarcoatit.
There will be stressful moments, but they don't have to be like
the most stressful ordeals ofall time ever, like relationship
ending, like doom and gloom,like apocalyptic situations.
It just doesn't have to be likethat.
So this is the second episodein a series where I'm talking
(01:50):
about sort of like the mindsetbehind planning your wedding.
I think this is gonna be athree part series, not 100% sure
yet, but, like I said, everyThursday I drop new videos, so
stay tuned for more.
Okay, so when I was planning mywedding, the most stressful
thing that I had to deal withwas renting chairs, and I was
catering the entire thing bymyself, and I made my husband's
(02:12):
jacket and I did a thousand DIYprojects and none of them even
came close to how stressful itwas to order some stupid chairs.
I let myself panic for threedays straight trying to figure
out which company would fit intoour budget, which one would
deliver at the correct time,because we only had the venue
for a certain amount of time,which one would pick up on the
(02:35):
same day.
Would we have to go pick up thechairs ourselves and then bring
them back?
But how is that gonna work,because I wanna have some
champagne on my wedding day.
Do I have to be responsible forthis?
I don't wanna put that onanybody else either.
What am I gonna do?
Obviously, there was a solution,because in the end we got the
chairs.
I just had to pay a little bitof extra cash for them.
Yeah, you know what ate into mybudget a little bit, but it was
(02:58):
so much better than lettingmyself be eaten alive by the
stress of not knowing, like, howdo I get these chairs on this
like super tiny little budgetthat I've allocated for myself
and, by the way, $250 is aridiculous amount of money to
budget for chairs.
But here's the thing eventhough I was letting myself be
(03:19):
stressed out and notice that I'msaying like I let myself be
stressed out I knew a solutionwould present itself eventually.
I just kept repeating that overand over in my head like a
solution will present itself.
A solution will present itself,and it did.
Like I said, we just shelledout a little bit of extra cash
for the chairs.
And after that whole ordeal oflike letting myself be that
ridiculously stressed out, Imade a promise to myself.
(03:41):
I'm like I'm not going to letthis get the better of me
anymore.
I know there's always asolution to this stuff.
I'm an event planner with over10 years of experience.
There is always, always asolution.
Sometimes they're wildsolutions, but there is always a
solution.
So I'm just not going to letmyself get that anywhere near
that level of stressed outanymore about my wedding,
(04:03):
because I really want it to be anice day, and I'm sure you feel
the same way.
And this brings me to pointnumber one of planning a stress
free wedding.
Point number one you get tochoose what stresses you out.
Actually, it's a fact and, likewhen I first heard about this
concept, I was like there's noway in hell.
(04:23):
Like there there are thingsthat are out of my control, that
are absolutely stressing me out, like work, for example, or
other people's opinions aboutthings, or what is what?
Is my new family going to thinkof this or what is my family
going to think of that?
And the fact of the matter isthat if it's out of my control,
(04:43):
I don't need to worry about it.
Like I can choose to not worryabout those types of things and
this is a skill you're probablygoing to have to practice a
little bit before it starts tomake sense to you.
Like it took me about a yearfor this to actually make sense.
Like I get to choose what I dealwith in the day and what, what
bothers me, like what I letbother me, like.
(05:04):
Like if I let an email that wasa little bit snarky from a
vendor bother me, I wouldprobably never move on with
anything in my life.
But there comes a certain pointwhere you just have to say,
well, that person must be havinga crappy day, too bad for them.
I guess Doop, doop, doop, doop.
You know what I mean.
You have to be able to letyourself choose the things that
(05:27):
get to you Like water off aduck's back, and I'm going to
share a little bit more abouthow to not get into the weeds of
worrying about specific thingsa little bit later in this video
.
Point number two always budgetfor miscellaneous items like
chairs.
I know I'm herping on the chairthing, but this was truly like
my biggest stressor the wholetime my three day stress oh,
(05:53):
you're always going to haveextra things.
I had so many more than Ianticipated for myself just
because, like, I came up withnew ideas and I was like, well,
this is going to be cooler if Ido it like this, or I want this
particular type of manicureinstead of the $40 one.
So, always just have a littleextra slush fund that you can
use in order to make these newideas come to fruition.
(06:14):
Or maybe things that you forgot, like wedding favors all of a
sudden oh shoot, I didn't budgettwo to $5 per person to give
them a little something to takeaway at the end of the wedding.
What am I going to do?
Having extra money available isjust going to make your life a
lot less stressful, but isn'tthat the same with life?
Money?
(06:36):
Point number three remove toxicpeople from your existence, if
at all possible.
I know this is in 100% possibleall the time, but again, it's
choosing to let things get toyou.
However, if you have the optionto say like I don't want to go
with this particular vendor,they're like triggering
something ridiculous in me, andevery time I get an email from
(06:58):
them, I feel like my heart'sjumping into my throat and I
want to cry Just cancel it.
There might be a deposit thatyou have to let go of, but trust
me, it is so much more worthyour happiness and your joy for
your wedding day to just cancela service and like let it go.
Yeah, it does suck to let go ofsome of that money, but that's
(07:19):
the sunk cost fallacy.
That's what my husband's alwaysreminding me, emily, it's the
sunk cost fallacy.
You don't need to do that thingyou said you were going to do,
that you hate just because youpaid 20 bucks for it.
You know what I mean.
Now, some people in your lifemight be a little anxiety
inducing.
Perhaps it's your mom, perhapsit's your new mother-in-law,
perhaps it's another familymember, or it's your maid of
(07:41):
honor.
It could be so many differentpeople that all have to do with
your wedding day and you have towork closely with them.
So what are some strategiesthat you can do to work with the
anxiety that they present youwith?
First of all, think about whatthey must be going through with
the day.
Having some sort of emotionalempathy for a person can really
(08:02):
really help.
Second, you can choose aattitude of gratitude, which is
probably really annoying ifyou're at a super stressed out
level right now, but it doeshelp.
Can you find five things you'regrateful for for this person?
What are they helping you withwith the wedding?
Are they following through oncertain tasks?
And you know what?
(08:22):
If they're not followingthrough on other tasks, maybe
you could say hey, I noticedyou're really busy.
I don't want to stress you out,I'm going to take this on and
don't even worry about it.
You could give it to somebodyelse.
They don't need to know, butstill it's.
You're going to find ways tolike remove the toxic anxiety,
feelings and sensations fromyour life, because it's going to
make it a lot easier for you tocontinue on planning your
(08:44):
wedding joyfully.
Point number four plan for yourplans to not go as they planned.
Oh boy, oh boy.
Listen, every single event hassomething wild going on with it.
I've never, ever, had like aquote, unquote, perfect event
and I know that that's just notthe reality.
The reality is people aredelayed like by grandparents got
(09:08):
stuck in traffic on the way tomy brother's wedding, so our
dinner was delayed by 15 and 20minutes.
Really not the end of the world, but there is already an
expectation that things mayshift.
They just do.
Or maybe you forgot a reallyimportant, essential piece of
your ceremony and you're like,oh shit, maybe I don't have a
very important prop that Iwanted.
(09:29):
You have to kind of choose inthat moment if it's going to
make your life better or worse,to let it go, to let the plan
that you planned for unplanneditself.
But again, this comes down toyou and your attitude.
Are you letting these thingsget to you, are you allowing
them to permeate your amazing,wonderful aura, or are you
(09:51):
letting it kind of bounce off ofyou?
The choice is really yours.
Point number five do not letthings go till the last minute.
Make a plan with your fianceand with yourself and a promise
to each other that you're notgoing to let things slide.
You're not going to do stuff atthe very last second, because
having a whole bunch of thingsthat you could have been doing
(10:12):
intermittently the monthsleading up to your wedding, like
all stacked up the day beforeyour wedding, that is a recipe
for disaster and sadness andstress beyond belief, like I
would.
I would be like what?
How do I live?
What is my existence, what am Igoing to do?
It's terrible, but then I'vehad so much experience planning
these types of events that I'mlike okay, things really need to
(10:34):
be done in a sequential order,with plenty of time allocated to
them, like more than enough,especially if you're DIYing, to
make sure that it all gets done.
And if you need help with that,I can definitely help you plan
your DIY wedding and make surethat, like you have an amazing
schedule of like, the cake needsto be baked today, the brownies
(10:56):
need to be baked tomorrow andI'm talking real DIY, because
that's how I did my wedding.
If you're starting to noticethat things are sliding, make
sure that you have a plan inplace with your fiance to say
this is what we're going to doif we notice that things aren't
getting done on schedule.
These are the things we'regoing to drop.
This is how we're going torearrange our schedule in order
(11:18):
to get things done.
Knowing in advance that thingsmight not go exactly as you
planned it for your plans Alsowill really help to relieve a
lot of the stress.
And that brings me to pointnumber six focus on the big
picture.
Remember earlier I said I'mgoing to share how to not let
all the nitty gritty things tieyou down.
(11:38):
It is by focusing on the bigpicture.
What is, what is the feelingyou want on the day?
What do you want to be feelingat each moment when you're
planning out your itinerary orwhen you're reviewing the one
that your event planner sent you?
What is it that you, how do youwant to be emotionally involved
with it?
And what is the main outcomewhen you're looking at all of
(12:00):
your pictures later, or yourvideo later, how do you want
everything to feel when you'relooking at those pictures?
Because you know, like later on,if you're looking at pictures
of getting ready and you knowthe whole time you were like
monstrously stressed out that'swhat looking at that picture is
going to conjure for you again,and that kind of sucks, and you
(12:20):
don't want that.
You want the whole thing to beas joyful as possible, right?
So shift your focus, if you can.
You know what, like, we all getinto these like little tiny
detail moments.
Shift your focus, if you can,into the big picture, into what
this is really about.
It's about you and your fianceprofessing your love to one
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another, signing some documentsand having a great party.
That's what it's all about.
At the end of the day, marriageis a much more complicated
beast than planning a weddingLike don't let it be your
downfall, let it be the thingthat lifts you up.
All that to say you absolutelycan have a stress-free wedding
(13:03):
if you choose to, but you gottachoose it.
So if you found this episodeuseful, I'd be so grateful if
you followed and shared thisepisode with a friend or your
fiance.
If you're feeling like totallystressed and overwhelmed and you
wanna bring the Joy Factor backinto your wedding planning, I
would be so happy to share whatI know to help.
So drop me an email atemilyajoyfactorweddingscom or a
(13:24):
DM on Instagram.
I will be back next Thursdaywith another wedding planning
episode.
So until then, keep it joyful.
["joy Factor Weddings"].
Thanks for listening to JoyfulWedding Planning.
I hope you got something out ofthis episode and, hey, if you
did, leave me a review.
Wherever you listen to yourpodcasts, it helps me to find
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more listeners just like you, sothat we can take all the stress
out of wedding planning and gofrom panic to joy-filled moments
.
Need help to plan your wedding?
Book a call with me atjoyfactorweddingscom.
I can't wait to help you planthe wedding of your dreams.
["joy Factor Weddings"].
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