Which gives you more anxiety?

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Which part of the wedding gives you more anxiety: the preparation for the wedding, the wedding day itself, the wedding ceremony or the reception?

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For me it was the preperation of the wedding.  My mother in law wanted things her way, my mother wanted things her way, and I wanted things my way.  I think if you have too many people giving their suggestions of how they think your wedding should be planned, it is very stressful.

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I would say it is the preparation for the wedding if you are doing it yourself. I did my own and the day before was crazy busy! I think it's natural to want everything to be just right. So many times we have some many things we are doing that it is so easy to overextend ourselves and get really stressed!

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well in my case i think on the eve of the wedding....

 
 
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For me, everything is so stressful, from preparation until to wedding day itself. However, this is just a part of celebration, guys. Why not face this fact?

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For me it was the whole event that made me anxious. To be honest I was glad when it was all done with. I know that sounds awful, but when you have to rely on other people doing their part properly (such as the caterers etc) it makes for a very nervous me!

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I would say the most stressful time during my whole wedding experience was the preperation itself. My mother was helping us pay for things and we were bumping heads the whole time. If I had to do it all over again I would have waited until I had the money to pay for it myself and have the things that I wanted. The part that REALLY stressed me out was picking the reception location since that was the biggest expense.

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antkmom wrote:

For me it was the preperation of the wedding.  My mother in law wanted things her way, my mother wanted things her way, and I wanted things my way.  I think if you have too many people giving their suggestions of how they think your wedding should be planned, it is very stressful.

You know I really hate it when some people want the wedding to go the way they want it to be when its not their wedding at all. That really pisses me off.

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serena wrote:

well in my case i think on the eve of the wedding....

 
 

May I ask why?

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mrshabagat wrote:

For me, everything is so stressful, from preparation until to wedding day itself. However, this is just a part of celebration, guys. Why not face this fact?

I guess so. But I don't think everything is really stressful specially when you're happy doing it.

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antkmom wrote:

For me it was the preperation of the wedding.  My mother in law wanted things her way, my mother wanted things her way, and I wanted things my way.  I think if you have too many people giving their suggestions of how they think your wedding should be planned, it is very stressful.

You are right about that, antkmom. They say two heads are better than one, but if two or three heads want things differently, that's way too many heads.

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For me, I would say it was the preparation. Everyone seemed to be all over the place and knew everything better than everyone else, which really got to me. Towards the end, I just felt like telling everbody to just go away as it came to the point where we were actually arguing about every little detail. I am glad those days are long over now.

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Yes, those things mentioned above can really cause some anxiety in us. But those things also are only momentary. What is more worrisome and will eventually cause us lots of anxiety later is what would happen many days or years after the wedding celebration (shudders).

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Well, since I haven't gotten there yet, I can't say how much anxiety I will have on that day. I can tell you I have been extremely anxious with all the planning. Just making sure everything is lined up just right and everything is just perfect.

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I had a friend who was so stressed out during the planning of the wedding that she just wanted to go away and elope. We had all we could do to talk her out of it. Her anxiety was horrible. She did have a wedding and it came out wonderful.