10 easy ways to squash pre-wedding jitters

It's completely normal to have some level of anxiety in the hours, days, weeks, or even months leading up to your wedding. You might think that you should be calm and happy and just generally not anxious during the wedding planning process, but at some point, you'll likely feel at least a little bit anxious or stressed out. If you're experiencing pre-wedding anxiety, there are a number of things that you can do to combat the effects. INSIDER recruited experts to share what you can do when you feel that pre-wedding anxiety start to creep inor even avoid it as much as you can.Give yourself a few "wedding-free" days.It's natural that when you have something big going on in your life, you spend a lot of time thinking and talking about it, but going all-in on the wedding and not leaving any time for anything else likely isn't going to be all that great for you. You need time for a break."I always recommend that couples should have at least one "wedding-free" day every two weeks," wedding planner Karishma Manwani told INSIDER. "On this day, no one talks or asks them about their wedding. A day when they can either spend time with family or friends or even go on a nice date night together and talk about everything but their wedding. This is so important! Some of my couples who live together also have a 'wedding-free zone' in their house, a space where no one speaks or thinks about anything wedding related."Find a wedding planner or coordinator that you completely trust.One way to prevent some of that pre-wedding anxiety is to make sure that those with whom you're working are people that you trust completely to handle things on your behalf, think of things that you wouldn't, and steer you in the right direction."The secret is a constant presence and a clear communication during the planning: thanks to it, the wedding planner is able to listen the doubts and to ease the fears of the couples, ensuring them about everything they're worried about," wedding planner Serena Ranieri told INSIDER. "A wedding planner's role is exactly this: being a contact point for the bride and the groom for all the necessities they may have and monitoring the entire process to be sure that everything goes smoothly, in order to make the couple feel stress-free."A wedding planner, coordinator, or general right-hand person that you truly trust can ease a lot of stress. Having one that you don't trust, on the other hand, could potentially just make things worse.Make sure you go over the plan for the day in advance.Wedding days are full of emotion, so it's natural for there to sometimes be tension and anxiety mixed in with all of that excitement. If you're not sure exactly how the day will go, that can lead to some additional, unnecessary anxiety."A few days before the wedding, I recapitulate everything with the couple, explain all the details, show the timeline including the smallest details and info so they can feel everything is indeed taken care [of]," wedding planner Rui Mota Pinto told INSIDER.Knowing how things are going to go will help you feel more at ease.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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