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"I know it can feel like everything that goes wrong during wedding planning is beyond your control. I wish someone had told me what I&amp;amp;#8217;m about to share with you. Ready to find out what&amp;amp;#8217;s really causing your wedding woes? You&amp;amp;#8217;re sharing too much info. The biggest mistake I made while wedding planning: telling too many people every little thing. It opened up my wedding (and myself) to A LOT of criticism and, in some cases, made me have to undo some of my wedding decisions in favor of more crowd-pleasing ones. I remember blaming everyone else for this, but if I had just kept my big mouth shut, they never would have had the chance to try to change things. So when people ask questions about your wedding, it&amp;#x27;s in your best interest to be vague and switch the subject. You&amp;amp;#8217;re asking for too many opinions. Yes, anyone who&amp;amp;#8217;s helping to pay for your wedding gets a say in some of your choices, namely who to invite. But you don&amp;amp;#8217;t need to consult them on every single matter, especially if the amount they&amp;amp;#8217;re contributing to your wedding is set (instead of dependent on your decisions). They weren&amp;#x27;t paying for their dresses, but I still asked all six of my bridesmaids for input on their outfits. I don&amp;amp;#8217;t regret that, but I do regret trying to fulfill everyone&amp;amp;#8217;s requests (&amp;amp;#8220;no strapless,&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;no sheaths or mermaids,&amp;amp;#8221; &amp;amp;#8220;no bubble hems&amp;amp;#8221;) because I wound up not loving their dresses. You&amp;amp;#8217;re setting your standards too high. Who doesn&amp;amp;#8217;t want a dream wedding? But unless you&amp;amp;#8217;re a billionaire, you&amp;amp;#8217;ll have to pick your priorities. Right now, I have friends who are searching and searching (and searching) for the perfect wedding venue they can afford--and they&amp;amp;#8217;re coming up empty. If you&amp;amp;#8217;re finding yourself in a similar situation, decide what you must have, what would be nice to have, what you absolutely won&amp;amp;#8217;t have, and what wouldn&amp;amp;#8217;t be so terrible if you had for venues (and then other wedding vendors when you move on to that) to figure out who offers the best for your budget. You&amp;amp;#8217;re making choices on the wrong timeline. There are so many things I did way too early (like buy a dress and invitations--I wound up finding a new dress and having to reprint my invitations when my wedding venue fell through), and a few I did a little too late (like booking limos--the best company in town&amp;amp;#8217;s cars were all already reserved--and deciding to make the ceremony programs myself--I was still tying those babies together two nights before the wedding!). Always leave yourself enough time to complete DIY projects and don&amp;amp;#8217;t book or buy anything that&amp;amp;#8217;s dependent on still-to-be-booked-or-bought elements. You&amp;amp;#8217;re changing your mind too often. There will always be color schemes you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t choose, invitations you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t order, and wedding gowns you didn&amp;amp;#8217;t buy. But once you make a decision, you have to stick to it--or else you&amp;amp;#8217;ll drive yourself (and possibly the people around you) completely crazy. So carefully weigh your options before you commit, but when it feels right, go with it. You can always throw yourself an anniversary party down the line with different decorations. Be honest: Do any of these apply to you? Do you think your wedding planning problems will disappear (or at least decrease!) if you follow this advice? What&amp;amp;#8217;s your biggest wedding planning issue right now? More Wedding Planning Tips What the Week Before Your Wedding Should Look Like The 5 Best Moments of Wedding Planning Wedding Warning: Make Sure to Tell Your Guests to Do THIS! More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Pixland"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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