How to reduce stress for your Wedding – Don’t let wedding pressure ruin your day!

As a wedding photographer I’ve been to over 250 weddings, but when I became a groom myself I realised something:

Weddings rock; the pressure involved sucks.

I thought I knew what to expect but two things came as a surprise. The day was better than I ever hoped, but the pressure before the day was immense. There’s the expectations from family about how the day will run, the expectation of whether the guests will enjoy it, whether the flowers will be beautiful, whether the party will be fun and of course whether the damn weather will be nice. I take issue with most of these, but for sure the most annoying and unjust is the weather. On arriving at a venue I once heard a guest say:

‘oh I feel so sorry for her that it’s raining.’

What!?

Nobody needs pity, they want to have a whale of a time no matter what and don’t need Debbie Downers moping about the weather before the day’s even started. Give it a chance!

Some of the best weddings I’ve been to have had solid rain all day, it’s simply about your attitude to it. Anybody who’s seen the film ‘About Time’ (my wife had it on…) might remember that they have torrential rain for their wedding but it’s hilarious fun. It’s ‘Hollywood levels’ romantic and it sure as hell would be memorable. Don’t let the worry get to you and certainly don’t worry about it on the day.

Plan for the worst, go with the flow and you’ll have the best time whatever happens.