Planning a wedding is a big task and it can start to take over your life if you’re not careful. Plenty of couples report that they feel like they’re drifting apart and if this is you… it’s totally normal. But there are some great ways you can keep the romance alive while planning your wedding!
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Don’t let wedding planning take over
- Have a wedding planning day
- Spend time together and with friends, where you don’t talk about the wedding
Stick to date night
Keep going out on dates together! Make it a priority to spend time with your partner and just enjoy each other’s company.
Put a rule in place that wedding talk is off the table and just spend time together.
Have some time apart
I know what you’re thinking: how will time apart keep the romance alive?
But you know what they say: absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Spend time apart, enjoying your individual hobbies. Then when you spend time together you’ll have something to talk about other than wedding planning and work!
Find wedding planning tasks that you can bond over
If your partner isn’t particularly excited about wedding planning, find things that will help you to bond as you do them!
- Practice your First Dance together
- Choose your key wedding songs together
- Practice posing for photos – don’t forget the kiss!
- Make a slideshow together and go through your old photos together
Make decisions together
Begin as you plan to continue: you’re a team and you should be on the same page.
So make all the big wedding planning decisions together!
Find out what’s important to your partner
If you’re the one spearheading the wedding planning, it can be easy for your partner to stop caring about the details.
Ask what’s important to your partner and then make it important to you.
It could be the way the meals are served (my husband wanted a three course plated meal), your First Dance song, the flavour of your cake or the colour of the flowers. Whatever it is, get your partner’s input and make it known that it’s also important to you!
Plan your future
Don’t get so distracted by wedding planning that you forget about your future as a couple.
Do you want to buy a house together?
Are you planning on starting a family in a few years?
Have you always wanted to run a marathon?
Are you thinking of starting a business together?
Consider the big and small milestones to come and take time to plan your future and dream together while you plan your wedding!
