I was in Hong Kong for about 7 days and met up with one of my wife’s friends, who may be getting married next year or so.

It is really common for couples in Hong Kong to engage wedding planners to help plan their weddings.

It is of no surprise to me as wedding planning service is getting more and more common nowadays especially when both brides and grooms are working and it really take discipline to carfully manage their own wedding.

My wife’s friend, G told us that in Hong Kong, it may cost up to S$30,000 (at least!) to have their wedding. And friends around them often engage wedding planners.

Thus, it appears normal and common sensical to them to engage one too.

I’m not sure how reliable wedding planners are, especially I have heard stories of some wedding planners who screw up weddings rather than making them a success.
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Are you planning a wedding to remember?

Who isn’t?

Sometimes, the irony thing is bad things happened and these are what we remembered most.

I was chit-chatting with my wife who is helping a friend plan her wedding.

Of course, there are other wedding helpers as well.

During planning a wedding, you have to get all the help you need.

But this is not the point of this post.

The bride, J is going to have her wedding tomorrow.

Her bridal studio where she had her bridal gown done is one of the very popular shops around in Singapore.

Three days ago when she went back to the studio for the trial fitting of her gown. She was very shocked.

The gown used to come with this turquoise ribbon at the waist level. I must emphasize the word “used to”. Now it is gone.

Why?
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Many people have talked about wedding planning. Some people get so fascinated when talking about it while others just refused to talk it about it.

What is it really about?

Is it simply just planning your wedding or is it in fact management of people in the wedding planning process?

In fact, both are correct in the sense that it involves both tasks: the wedding planning tasks as well as the people in them.

Sometimes, I just hope that there is this perfect wedding planning kit that teaches us all about planning our own wedding.

Of course, I have always tell people to set the stage right. Come up with your wedding planning calendar.

If you don’t set the stage right, do you know what bad things can happen to your very own wedding?

Here’s why.
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You are at your half way mark planning your wedding and you feeling stressed out.

All along, you thought that planning your own wedding is fun and relaxing. Everything should be happy as it is a happy occassion after all. And you neevr expected your wedding to be a stress filled wedding!

While planning your wedding venue, you met up with an uncooperative staff who was not very responsive.

While trying to get your photographer, the price of hiring a good one overshoot your budget and you are confused if you should get one at all.

While planning your wedding, your fiance is too busy to help you out in anything at all and you are collasping.

These are real scenarios and yours may be worse. Your so-called responsible wedding helpers may leave you halfway because of disagreement in simple things like the color of bridesmaids’ dresses or they have to work that day.

You thought you are in safe hands but sorry you are not.

Oh know, you feel yourself exploding from inside out and you are just another thought closer to cancelling your own wedding.

So, how do you remove all these wedding stresses and have a stress free wedding?
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Now that you’ve recovered from the delightful shock of your engagement, take a deep breathe.

This wedding of yours must be your first time (of course this is your first time! What am I saying?) and it is fine to get confused and overwhelmed by what to do.

As you are recovering from your initial excitement, you could be considering how to go about planning your wedding and how to go about making things simple. You have heard about unbelievable stories of weddings having at least 600 guests or even expensive weddings which the couple spent their entire savings.

You may not care about what people say or how other people look at it. You just want a simple wedding.

You may be looking at just a simple wedding reception with a small group of family members, relatives and friends to be present. Of course, despite of a simple wedding, every detail of any bride’s wedding is important. And there are some short cuts that you can take when you are planning your simple wedding.

There 6 steps that you can go over in advance to make the months ahead as simple as possible. You can use these steps to help outline the planning of your wedding.

1) Budget – One of the biggest mistakes that brides’ make is not setting a budget. And it is one of the major causes how most couples end up in debts after their weddings.

If not controlled, costs can easily spiral out of control, and if you don’t document them, you may end up paying far more for your wedding than you planned. You should work out with your fiance the maximum amount that both of you are able to spend.

Without an amount set, you realise it is so easy to spend way beyond your budget. You do not want to spend your honeymoon worrying about how to go about paying your debts. So set the intial stage right to budget plan wedding.
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