Wedding Jitters

Dip into the marital pool unprepared and you’ll probably end up drowning in catering details, floral billing requirements, church booking issues, invite printing problems, making follow ups for fittings, not to mention arranging for the transportation and accommodation for the local and out of town guests? Whew! These days every wedding comes with a price. And for those unwilling to go with the wedding-organizer flow, the price can be as high as a failed marriage.

OK, that’s an exaggeration. But approach any bride in the middle of wedding preparations and, instead of the glowing blushing wife-to-be you’re expecting to find, you will be met with bridezilla. There’s the panic-at-the-last-minute kind (a.k.a. the runaway bride), there’s the everything’s-got-to-be-perfect-down-to-the-bridesmaids-nail-polish type (a.k.a. OC bitch) and then there’s the weep-at-the-tiniest-detail bride (a.k.a. the high-strung hag). Wedding jitters/ cold feet? Oh sure, it is not all just happy times, there are hills and valleys, many good days and some bad. In the flurry of things, we’re just grateful that we're more aware now that we are sort of we’re a team now, going through all the preparations and into the succeeding marriage. We sort of have to sacrifice our independence a little more and put in a lot more compromise. Because I’m very independent so for me that’s something that it’s a little hard to carry off, sometimes he is like, ‘Let me handle it, let me help you,’ and then I’m like, ‘Oh right, we’re a team now.’ It’s important that we’re strong together and we have that foundation. Open your minds and find the middle ground.

The most important part of the wedding process? RELAX, five bold letters that together make a world of difference. A little each time, go with the flow as situations unfold. It is with grace that I’d like to think comes from the heaven above.