How To Manage Working While Wedding-Planning

How to manage working while wedding-planning is a real challenge. We’ve found some tips to help a bride-to-be time-block productivity while balancing responsibilities and dreaming!

Getting engaged is so exciting, and as it should, the wonder and anticipation of the future pervades your entire being.

The temptation is strong to yield to dreaming and wedding-planning at work, drawing your focus away from your responsibilities. Just a few moments on Pinterest or a Wedding website during a lull in action can turn into neglecting important duties.

Perhaps you’ve turned in your resignation to become a stay-at-home wife, but until that farewell party at work, your hours at your job belong to your boss.

And that can be seriously hard to remember when every thought ends up on the wedding track.

So let’s take a look at some tips to help stay focused on priorities.

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Here’s the synopsis of the tips we found to help manage a full schedule:

Don’t multi-task.
Prioritize wedding details.
Live by your wedding planner.
Make lists for every day.
Take time off.

1. Don’t multi-task.

As we mentioned above, it’s tempting to go into wedding planning mode when there’s a lull during the work day.

Your students are finally all occupied on their worksheets, and you think, “I wonder if coral and gray would be a pretty color scheme.” And you begin to picture coral roses in the centerpieces and a gray tablecloth with… And then a student is beside you with a question in her innocent blue eyes and your realize you never heard the question. Sure, you gave her a nod so she’s waiting for your answer, but that nod was actually an answer to the question of coral and gray.

Not fair. You love your students; at least you did. And you began the year believing you’d make a difference in their lives. So focus. Teaching time at school, wedding-planning time at home.

And if you get that panicky feeling that there isn’t time for it all?

2. Prioritize wedding details.

Decide what’s really important to you, and leave the rest.

You can’t do every single thing that appeals on gram or Pinterest or your favorite medium for ideas.

First of all, you want your wedding to flow, and not be a conglomeration of exclamatory details.

But most important, you need to retain sanity and peace in the midst of continuing your daily life.

So go through your ideas in your spare time, and list only the most important things in your paper wedding planner.

3. Live by your wedding planner.

Yes. Then live by your wedding planner. Don’t deviate. Don’t give in to another cool idea that you heard from your bestie.

You and your fiancé decided what the important things were, so stick to those details to keep your mind focused at your day job.

It’s true, your fellow workers may cut you some slack and ask questions that encourage your day dreams. However, if you intend to stick with your job after the wedding, don’t misinterpret their enthusiasm as permission to shortcut your work.

Don’t sabotage your future, at your work and for your wedding.

Stick to the words written in your wedding planner book, and break the lists into weekly and daily tasks.

4. Make lists for every day.

Tuck your daily lists into your work bag or backpack.

Tuck in a notepad and a pen, also. That way, when a co-worker has an amazing idea, you can scribble it down for future thought and keep on with your task at hand. That notepad will become your best friend in these hectic pre-wedding days.

If your lunch hour belongs to you, use it to organize those notes, send emails, contact vendors, or get prices. Then back to work and work only until your job is done right and your time is your own again for the evening.

Your brain will thank you for following your lists and not overworking it by multi-tasking.

Your well-being will thank you if you…

5. Take time off.

We’re not talking about taking time off from work, although a day or two besides the time off for the wedding is okay. Some things can’t be done in the evening or by email and messaging, so asking for a day off work for that list is acceptable.

What we’re talking about here is actually taking time off from wedding planning. Your mind and soul need a break from obsessive planning. Be with friends and family. Put the wedding planner binder in the drawer for a few hours. Resist the impulse to over-focus.

Take the time to live and really enjoy being engaged. Create memories for this time totally free from worry and lists.

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