Pre-wedding stress: 4 life hacks to avoid it

Video: Pre-wedding stress: 4 life hacks to avoid it

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Before you is a huge space of choice. The experience of friends, insanely beautiful pictures of wedding agencies, a swarm of restaurants, hosts, decorators …

Exhale. What you feel is normal. Here are some proven life hacks to help you deal with the stress and confusion most brides are familiar with.

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1. To do list

A useful tool and sure remedy for excessive irritability and panic attacks during wedding preparations. A to-do list will help you keep things organized and keep things out of your head.

With your husband-to-be, make a plan and timeline for each item. Be prepared to complete your basic routine a day or two before meeting with agency, site, or contractors.

Store information in one place! It is more convenient to have a special folder and keep contracts, samples, brochures, menus and other materials in it.

Let your pen and notebook become your constant companions. Write down any ideas, even the most daring, funny, extraordinary. Thus, you will get rid of the obsessive feeling that you forgot something or did not have time.

In a notebook, you can write down not only things that need to be done, but also funny incidents or curiosities. Many years later, having opened a notebook, it will be possible to laugh cheerfully and remember how it was.

An alternative solution is to download the application to your phone. There are many convenient wedding apps on the market right now, such as the Wedding App.

2. Take care of yourself

This is perhaps one of the most important rules of success in preparing for a wedding for a bride.

Increase the number of workouts at the sports club. Excessive stress, we transfer negativity to the loads in the gym. We strengthen the body, muscles, tone the figure. Exercise will help you focus better and sublimate energy back on track.
Have cosmetic or injection treatments (if needed) a few months before the wedding. Let your skin come to its senses. Be very gentle with your tan. Visit a massage therapist twice a week, relieve stress, fatigue. Pamper yourself!

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Be sure to find time for yourself outside of wedding preparation, work, life. Go to exhibitions, theaters, travel, take pictures, shoot videos. Allow yourself to get carried away and do what you enjoy doing. This will switch you away from the bustle of the wedding and return you well-rested

3. Reasonable approach

When the heat of passions goes off scale, you cannot sleep at night, quarrels with the groom become more frequent and louder, and the reason for this is questions about preparing for the wedding, stop.

Remember the video on the Internet when a woman comes to see a psychologist and he promises to relieve her of stress in 5 minutes? As soon as she distrustfully and nervously began to retell her story of fears and problems, the psychologist shouted at the very first minute: Stop it! And so the whole session went on.

Funny, isn't it? We often remember this video when we feel that the situation is heating up.

Stop, take a deep breath, exhale, and so on several times. Remember what meaning do you put into words, irritation? What is all this fuss for? You must, no, you must enjoy life. And from the preparation for the wedding as well. Enjoy. And if you are very annoyed, you speak in a raised voice - Stop it!

If you are already turned on and there is a storm in your soul, try the following techniques:

Stop. Catch your hand. Take a deep breath, exhale several times, restore inner balance. Count to 20 (if necessary, then to 100). Want to give a negative emotional reaction? Count it. As soon as you finish counting, if the problem is still urgent, broadcast it to your interlocutor (most often to the groom) with a colder mind and emotions.
Take a walk, breathe the air. You can be alone - this will help organize your thoughts. Leave your phone at home.

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Push up: the nerves are calmer, the muscles are stronger.
Rule 5 minutes. As soon as you feel like you're on the edge, take your mind off and sharply come up with a plan for the next 5 minutes. For example, if you are at home - wash dishes, dust, take out the trash. Or make a hair mask, a face mask, take a hot shower, always with fragrant creams. Read a book. The main thing is to switch abruptly for a short while. A proven method.

Irina Gorbacheva, theater and film actress:

“There is no recipe for stress relief before a performance. I am almost always very worried, nothing helps. I accept everything as it is.

When I got married, it was a lot of fun in the morning. We did everything ourselves: we knitted the bouquet, and the makeup, and the hair. Only before the registry office they were worried, and then not for long - they saw the girl-registrar, and the excitement vanished as if by hand. True, Grisha (Grigory Kalinin. - Author's note) was as focused as possible. (Laughs.)

In my life, I get rid of stress by listening to music. I sing out loud and dance. I learn to endure and not wait for anything: as it is, so let it be."

4. Delegate the organization to professionals

Friends and girlfriends want to help organize the celebration? Channel their energies into things that don't have serious consequences.

Discuss with the agency who can really participate in the preparation, for example, professionally organize a flash mob, and who should not be allowed into the plans and processes.

Living in pleasure is a real art. And preparing for your wedding can be an integral part of it.