Winter somehow seem to be the time when marriage proposals get made. Valentine’s Day is, of course, the grand finale of the season: and its no surprise, therefore that diamond rings sell like crazy throughout the winter months. Couples who get engaged in the winter usually choose to get married sometime in the summer. That’s quite a crush of people deciding to get married at about the same time. A couple certainly has to plan ahead to engage the services of all the professionals who will be contributing to the wedding. If they leave that off for later, they’ll find that it is very hard to get anyone to agree to the dates they have in mind. What they need is a wedding planning guide. Even the most uncomplicated wedding arrangements involve a lot of planning if there are to be any more than a handful of guests. You have to choose who wears what, you have to choose where the wedding will be, the attendance, the invitations, the food transportation, the entertainment – the list can frankly be a source of anxiety and can alarm anyone. Your first instinct in all of this should be hiring a wedding planner.

It will be easy for you to see how much sense this makes when you go through the list of everything you are responsible for if you undertake to do it on your own. Not only does it take time to arrange for everything, it can cost you a lot of money. Sometimes, a DIY wedding may actually end up costing more than a wedding planner would charge. You’re likely to make mistakes, or overpay when you’re buying goods and services you have no experience buying. The stress of keeping up with all that goes into the making of a successful wedding itself can cost you an emotional price that’s just not worth it.

Perhaps, you’re telling yourself, that you don’t really have to have a wedding like they seem to show in those bridal magazines and in the movies. You don’t want your wedding to be a Hollywood movie set – although having a professional wedding video made is a sensible option if you can afford it. You don’t want flowers everywhere. But if you do want at least a couple of things that could count as luxuries – a location that’s kind of difficult to hire out, a cake that’s kind of unusual, or perhaps a string quartet – if you have any kind of special ideas in mind, to get a wedding planner would surely be the best advice you could be given.

Here’s a little something that no wedding planning guide will tell you – most brides experience a sense of anticlimax – a letdown after the excitement of the wedding. That’s just the way excitement of such intensity works. With an entire wedding’s worth of stuff to handle – things to clean, things to return, people to pay – that letdown is going to get worse. The best wedding planning advice you could ever receive would be to hire a professional planner. It could be the best investment you ever made in your sanity.