It’s normal to feel some levels of stress while you prepare for a wedding, however stress should not take control. Staying organized and healthy, you will overcome stress and have a joyful wedding.

These are tips so you don’t become an anxious, overtaxed bride-to-be. If at any moment, you feel as if you are about to break, wedding planners can help, and are worth the money. We know you want to achieve perfection. But, ironically, the more you try to control everything, the more out-of-control you will feel.

Organize & Prioritize

Keep a “TO DO” list! Keep this list with you at all times. When you think of something that you should do, a decorating idea or a question to ask a caterer — put it on your list immediately. Don’t wait! If you do, you might forget and then you’ll torture yourself with that nagging feeling that you are forgetting something.

On your ‘to do’ list, prioritize each item on a scale of 1 to 10. Perhaps the music is most important to you, followed by the menu, if you make these a high priority and take care of them right away, you will feel much better and accomplish the most important tasks first.

Don’t feel like you have to take care of everything yourself. Give the lower priority items to family and friends, they will complete the tasks just fine.

Use a calendar countdown

The calendar will keep you on track and help make sure you don’t forget anything. Calendars are in most wedding planning books. Keep all your appointments with caterers, florists, etc., in the calendar, along with deposits and payment. Keeping everything in one place will help keep you organized.

Time management is another way to handle stress. If you plan early, you will avoid last minute chaos and confusion.

Communicate

Just because a task has been assigned doesn’t mean your helper has carte blanche. Be sure to communicate — calmly and clearly — such things as your budget limitations and how each helper’s task should contribute to the overall flavor of the affair. Just make it a policy for you to have the final approval.

Take care of yourself

You physical health plays a bigger role than you may realize. Eating right and taking time to rest can improve energy levels. Exercise is an excellent way to manage and relieve stress. It will also make you feel better in general. Setting aside time to play and laugh can also be very healthy, as can reserving personal quiet time. Take breaks from wedding planning. You may think you don’t have time to … but do it anyway. You’ll be amazed how good a ‘day off’ makes you feel and you’ll feel refreshed and ready to start again the next day!

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Some ways to reduce emotional stress are to improve personal, family and community relationships and career satisfaction, to reduce negative “self-talk” and to remove the misinterpretation of past events (example: holding grudges and blaming).

Electromagnetic stress can be reduced by limiting time spent indoors with artificial light, by limiting TV, cell phone and computer time, and by reducing proximity to electrical appliances and power lines.

To improve a person’s resiliency and ability to respond to stress, several areas are important: Improving detoxification, getting proper macronutrient balance and micronutrient supplementation, better rest and relaxation and exercise.

Improving detoxification function is of paramount importance. First in priority is to preserve the gastrointestinal barrier to prevent unnecessary entrance of toxins into the bloodstream and to ensure good colon elimination.

Intestinal health depends on good digestion. This includes a favorable eating environment and schedule, proper chewing and limiting nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, aspirin, etc. Special support nutrient supplementation can help to aid digestion, to restore balance in disrupted bowel ecology, and to support the gut lining to heal from damage caused by unfriendly or “dysbiotic” bacteria, yeast and parasites.

The next part of improving the detoxification process is to support the liver and other organs in their detoxifying work. Foremost in this support is to avoid overloading the detoxifying efforts by adding too many chemicals such as caffeine, alcohol, tobacco and foreign chemicals (xenobiotics) such as chemical food additives, pesticide-laden foods and drugs (prescription and non-prescription). Also to be avoided, although less toxic, would be too many herbs taken together.

Next is to provide proper protein intake to support the liver’s detoxifying work, including sulfur-containing amino acids. Antioxidant support with supplements and foods high in antioxidants such as colored vegetables is important to handle the free radicals produced in the oxidative reactions in the liver’s detoxification phase I process. Also important is to take in enough of the proper kinds of fats (omega 3 oils), which reduce pro-inflammatory immune activation (which causes oxidative stress). Alkaline vegetable broths are used to improve extra-cellular environment to support detoxification. Some programs use hot baths and moderate temperature saunas to increase removal of toxins through perspiration.

The important aspects of restoring optimum function and adaptability are macronutrient balance (ratio of carbohydrates, fats and proteins, adapted to each individual); micronutrient supplementation to enhance nutrient sufficiency; aerobic training, strength training, rest and relaxation training; and special restorative medical foods and supplements.

To implement this program, it is important to do testing and monitoring of function by means of questionnaires, chemical testing, biomechanical testing, assessing digestion and detoxification functions, assessing physical fitness, percent body fat, percent lean muscle mass, muscle strength and aerobic capacity.