Wedding Consultant to Bride to be

Being in the wedding industry, when I tell people I'm planning my own wedding, they always respond with "you must know exactly what you want."  The funny thing is, I'm still trying to figure it out.

Being around bridal magazines, websites, blogs and brides, it's true, I've seen a lot of what works and what doesn't work, what's popular, what's not, and what's the next thing and what's so last season.
With so much seen, it's sometimes hard to narrow down what you want.  It's a bit of blessing and a curse, really.  So yes, I still try to plan as if I'm a normal bride.  I ask my friends what they did, and how they dealt with certain situations.  I do my research on wedding sites and blogs and I still ask a million questions of each of my vendors.  I'm still a normal bride trying to figure it all out as I go along.

As all brides do, I want this day to go smoothly.   As a wedding consultant I especially want this day to go smoothly.  It's almost more imperative that I line everything up ahead of time because I'm a wedding consultant and wont be able to make sure the centerpieces are perfect or the name cards are in alphabetical order.  Someone else is going to have to do it and I think that may be a bit of a challenge for me.  So how am I dealing?  Planning ahead!  Getting all the big stuff out of the way so I can focus on the  details.  Taking care of what I know I want so it's out of the way.  I've got a little over a year to plan it out to perfection and I know I can do it, as you would, with help from some fabulous friends.