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Buy a plain, wooden puzzle and ask your guests to all sign separate pieces. After the party, you can stick the pieces together and glue them down so you have your own unique piece of art!

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Some people play silly songs while they’re cutting the cake like I Want Candy or Pour Some Sugar On Me. Other people keep it more traditional.

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Try your best to get along with the other bridesmaids. You don’t have to be best friends with them. You don’t have to keep in touch with them once the wedding is over. But while you’re planning for the big day, try your best not to butt heads with the rest of the wedding party.

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If you’re struggling to fine a wedding dress in your price range, you don’t have to settle for something mediocre. As long as you start your search early, you’ll have time to look around — and to visit plenty of trunk shows. 

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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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This is the kind of the style each bride will go for.

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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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Invite your bridal party to get together over some cold brews at Starbucks — but make sure you’re the one to grab their orders when their names are called. While they aren’t paying attention, slip a pen out of your purse and add ‘bridesmaid’ and ‘maid of honor’ beneath their names.

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You have high expectations — so you aren’t going to settle for anything less than the best. 

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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.