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A pivotal step to sorting out your anxiety about your wedding planning is accepting that it exists in the first place.

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Planning a wedding is stressful enough on its own. Now that there’s a global pandemic, it’s even more stressful. It’s hard to make it through the day when so much is weighing on your mind, when your emotions are all over the place, when you’re in a constant state of misery. 

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It’s much more than the cost of a wedding that is luring millennials toward elopement; it’s the familial pressure to conform. 

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Even though a part of you wants your wedding day to arrive so you can get it over with and stop stressing, the actual day is going to go by much faster than you think. Soon, you’re going to be wishing it wasn’t over so quickly.

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Take a time out. Using all of your energy on planning a wedding isn’t good for your relationship or your mental health.

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Not having our grandmas as flower girls. We didn’t have anyone to be flower girls, and I didn’t think of asking grandmas until way after the wedding.

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SCORPIO: You have always been a wild child, an old soul, a tree hugger. You fill your rooms with houseplants and animals because they bring you peace. You should lean into the natural side of you on your special day by having a bohemian wedding.

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Do what makes you happy, and what doesn’t hurt your wallet beyond repair.

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I was so excited to marry my best friend, but it was after things settled in that I began to hate being engaged.

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Everyone wants to be her—until they become her: the maid of honor