The worst thing that could happen to any bride on her wedding day is have a nervous breakdown! A wedding is certainly one of the most significant events in any person’s life. But it doesn’t mean that one has to spend each and very waking hour worrying about it. Here are some tips on how to minimize the stress when planning your wedding.
1. Get all the help you can get. If your budget allows, hire a wedding planner. There is no one that could help you best than someone who knows the ins and outs of planning a wedding. However, if you do not have the money to spare, seek help from family and friends. Make sure that you assign important tasks especially during the day of the wedding and that you assign them ahead of time.
2. Be organized. Write down all your TO DOs and assign each one a target completion date. Be realistic with the timelines. Allow some buffer when assigning your target date. Keep the list current. Mark the tasks that get completed and add new ones that come up. And avoid making major changes to your plan a couple of months before the wedding
3. As much as possible avoid straying from your schedule. Allow yourself plenty of time to complete each of the tasks.
4. Prioritize! Do the most important things first select a date and an alternate date, select a wedding planner, make the necessary ceremony and reception venue reservations. The earlier these things are completed the better.
5. Set a budget and stick to it. Resist the urge to overspend and avoid making unnecessary splurges.
6. Select your vendors well. Get recommendations from family, friends and co-workers. Pick vendors that have been in the business for a good number of years and those with good track records.
7. Agree on the details and the terms with your vendors and put them in writing. Changes should be discussed and agreed to and reflected in the document.
8. Choose your battles wisely. And if possible, have your wedding planner fight your battles for you.
9. Take some time off from the preparation. Go on a night out with the girls, have a romantic dinner with your fiancée, go to the spa and the salon, do some shopping. In short, do something to help you relax and recharge.
10. Call each of the vendors a couple of days before the wedding to review with them the important details, the date, the time and the location. If you do not have a wedding planner, assign someone to be in-charge of coordinating with the vendors on the day of the wedding. Give him/her a copy of vendor’s contact information to bring to the wedding.
11. Probably the most important advice we could give a bride DON’T SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF! Learn to compromise. Sometimes things don’t go the way you want to.
September 30th, 2008 at 9:23 am
What is the best way to keep stress level down on stingrays when i want to change from gravel to sand ?
i have gravel in the tank right now and i want to put sand in.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
How big is the tank? If it is long enough I would do one side first so they have the other to hang out in, then do the other end. Getting the gravel out should be pretty easy, just use a clean scooper to get it out, I actually used an old net I had that way the water would drain out of the gravel as I scooped it out. Also when I did my switch, I left my fish in the tank because of the size of them, it would have stressed them more to remove them than to leave them in there. When I added the new sand, I wanted to keep the amount of sand floating around to a minimum, so I put together something to deliver the sand directly to the bottom. I did this by going to the hardware store and got a piece of PVC pipe around 2-3 inches diameter, and also got a large funnel. I attached the funnel to the top of the pipe cutting it so that it was just a little smaller of an opening as the pipe. I set the other end directly on the bottom of the tank, and then started pouring the sand in the funnel. This way the sand wouldn't have to travel from the top of the water all the way to the bottom, it just came out of the pipe at the bottom of the tank. I had a friend help me with this because I had 150 pounds of sand to deal with, so it just made it easier and quicker to have an extra pair of hands. A couple tips if you haven't heard this already, one make sure you rinse the sand very well, this will keep the water from getting cloudy, and two turn the filters off till it all settles, this will keep them from sucking up and sand that is floating around, it can ruin you impellers. Hope this helps, if you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me.
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September 30th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
sand is better for rays and it will be less stressful for them if u took them out of the tank and kept them in a polysteirene box whilst u changed it over
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