When I was preparing to get married, the wedding checklist that came with the planner wasn't enough, and scrambled to find another one elsewhere. This had saved me some much needed time, and also saved me to prevent from forgetting a few things that I may have forgotten until it was too late. I would have remembered them, but time would have been very tight as the wedding approached.
A good organized wedding checklist not only lists everything that you have to do, or at least that you might want to include, but it also gives you a good enough time frame. Some put it off until it is too late to place the order on their bridesmaid dresses. A good wedding checklist will advise you to do it early enough for the order to come in, and to give you plenty of time for required alterations. It might tell you to do this six months before the actual wedding, where as many might wait until three months before and end up with a lot of problems. You should somewhat conclude that something will go awry, so giving yourself time is much better than cutting it close.
You might also want to see that a good wedding checklist advises you to do things that you never thought to do previously. Did you remember to speak with your DJ or live band about the selection of music? Did you coordinate what your guests will do in between the ceremony and reception? Do you know where everyone should stay as far as hotels? Do you have gift bags for your guests that are from out of town? Did you give your wedding photographer a list of wanted poses? A good wedding checklist will have all of this important information, and plenty more. You can find a few and compare them to your liking.
You may think that you are having a simple wedding, and that you might not need a wedding checklist. That simply isn't true. You should find one anyway. You can whittle it down to the things you need by going through the list and marking off the things you don't want to do or don't have to worry about. Not only will a good wedding checklist help you remember everything, it will also offer you some peace of mind. That voice at the back of your head that keeps reminding you something was forgotten will have quieted down. There's nothing like a calm bride and groom on their wedding day.
As part of the incessant need to provide monkeys to research labs around the world, teams of monkey catchers have developed an interesting system to capture live monkeys. While it is still dark, the teams take long-necked heavy ceramic vases to places where monkeys are known to frequent. Fresh bananas are then placed in them and the teams go off and lay similar traps elsewhere.
In the morning, the monkeys find the vases and discover the succulent fruit that has miraculously appeared overnight. With gusto, they reach into the vases and grasp a banana. When they try to extract their arms they discover that they can't. The fist that is grabbing the banana has now become thicker than the neck of the vase and the monkey is unable to get the arm out. When the monkey catchers return that night they find that the monkeys are still there, usually exhausted after trying in vain for hours to lift the heavy jar and escape with it. The monkeys are then caged and sent to some university lab on the other side of the world.
Now, all the monkey had to do to escape his unfortunate fate was to let go of the banana, but the poor stubborn thing just hung on and on. We can smugly chuckle at the antics of the poor dumb creature that just didn't have the sense to release the prize. Of course, we're above that, right?
What you may wish to ask yourself is whether or not this monkey business has any relation to your own life. Do you in fact have patterns in your life which approximate those of our evolutionary cousins? Are there counterproductive activities that you hang onto with the same stubbornness?
Would you rather slowly kill yourself with rich, fatty food rather than eating sensibly by telling yourself that if you had to eat only "healthy" food, life would not be worth living?
How many marriages or relationships do you have to experience before you are willing to let go of your need to be right, or in control, or to blow up in a torrent of anger if things don't go your way?
How many stress symptoms or illnesses do you have to deal with before you can let go of the obsessive perfectionism that drives you to work long and hard and keeps you enslaved to your deep insecurity?
How many demerit points and traffic fines will you put up with before you let go of your compulsive need to drive faster and faster?
Recognizing and letting go of that which doesn't serve you, is the constant challenge everyone faces. As you confront tricky life situations, remember the monkey trap and choose to let go of the inappropriate choices. Alternatively, you can begin to look for a tree to swing on.
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