So one of the first steps in planning my wedding was to go to theKnot.com. It can be a fantastic site with a trillion wedding ideas, they even have helpful tools to keep you organized: favorites lists, guest list manager, wedding website builders, budgets, and a checklist of to-do's before the big day.
I look forward to getting married and I have enjoyed, to some extent, the wedding planning.
However, I don't buy all of the hype the wedding industry has put on the planning. It's one day, one really big party, probably the biggest party of my life (Unless Princess Kate and I become best friends like I am sure we could be). But doesn't marriage afterward deserve just as much effort? Theknot.com doesn't have a checklist of compatibility, or what to expect your first year, or "Marriage, it's not for wimps" articles. They do however have articles on hair, makeup, handling unruly guests, picking colors and themes. Do these make a wedding great? Or a bride overwhelmed?
When I first started on theknot.com I had over 200 to-dos on my checklist and those were just the generic wedding checklists based on a timeline, not any of the items I felt were necessary. And though we are only 3 months away (ahhhhh!) I still have over 100 of them on the checklist and it's adding to my stress, to see a visual of all of the things that should be done and (heaven forbid) a little alarm clock next to some of them indicating I am behind schedule. I do not need to be reminded that I am behind in these things. But I do appreciate the organization the site provides.
And thus I continue my love/hate relationship with theknot.
So what's bride to do?
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