Ten Wedding Disaster Prevention Tips: Part Three

Tips five and six of your ten wedding disaster prevention tips are wide ranging, but at the same time key to heading off common problems that brides and grooms encounter as they mount the biggest event of their lives.

• Resist Perfectionism: There is no quicker way to a wedding day disaster than to allow the insidious strains of perfectionism to control you. At best it will ruin your wedding day and it has been known to plant the seeds that will ultimately destroy the very thing you are celebrating in your wedding - your marriage.
  
  No, there is nothing wrong with hoping that your big day is perfect, but do not demand it. That is foolish and it's the qickest route I know to "bridezilla". Neither you, nor your groom, nor your family, nor friends are perfect. It is not wise to demand that any of you be perfect, even for a second much less an entire day. Besides, it is the quirks we find in each other that allows us to feel comfortable with each other. Enjoy each other, quirks and all while you celebrate your new marriage. If you can do this you will nearly disaster proof your wedding because if something goes wrong it won't bother you.
  
• Make Backup Plans: Redundancy is at the core of any disaster planning - even wedding day disasters. Simply put the best way to ensure that you don’t have a major disaster on your hands is to have a back up plan in the event that something does go wrong.
  
  For example, choose a venue that can give you an alternative option in the event the people renting the venue on the evening before you set off the sprinkler system. This can be a second room or possibly a garden or courtyard.
  
  An even more likely example is an outdoor wedding. If you are scheduling an outdoor wedding you have probably taken weather into consideration when you chose your dates - but what are you going to do about the possibility that the weather may still not cooperate? What about other things that could threaten that gorgeous wedding cake you commissioned? That could truly be a wedding day disaster unless you have back up plans.