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The Final Weeks: How To Get That Wedding Glow MMW 212

• Yvette Sitters • Episode 212

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As your big day approaches, the excitement is building, but let's be real, it can also be pretty tiring. Join Yvette Sitters as she shares her own experiences gearing up for her wedding.

Find out how to achieve that gorgeous wedding glow – it's not just about the dress or the suit. Yvette breaks down the importance of looking relaxed and healthy and gives practical tips to avoid stress and tiredness.

Learn why taking the last week off is a game-changer, and get insights into managing vendors and staying organised. Yvette recommends the "Your Final 90-Day Wedding Guide," your ticket to a stress-free countdown and a good night's sleep for that beautiful wedding glow.

Discover simple tips to stay calm, like delegating tasks and leaving some empty spots in your calendar. Yvette wraps up by reminding you to enjoy a stress-free wedding and encourages you to check out the guide for a smoother wedding journey.

Tune in to get practical advice for these final weeks and make sure you're shining with that wedding glow when the big day arrives.

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Yvette Sitters:

Welcome to the Manage my Wedding podcast, where we believe your wedding is the most important time in your life and you deserve to feel supported and organised when planning the wedding of your dreams. I'm your host, yvette Sidders. Hello and welcome back to the Manage my Wedding podcast and welcome to those who are new for the first time listening. I want to talk about today. You know that huge excitement that you get in those last few weeks before the wedding but what can also turn into complete exhaustion. Like we all want that wedding glow. Everyone wants to turn up at the wedding and have that wedding glow, as everyone calls it, but we can end up with like really late nights and having crammed way too much into those final weeks. You know that's when the overwhelm can creep in. You know you might be worried that you might miss important details and you're struggling to really balance daily life with the wedding planning because that can just seem like so much. So I want to talk through all of that today and help you mitigate that problem, because those last few weeks before the wedding are so crucial and so so important and I know during my final weeks I found it hard like really hard to concentrate at work. So I'm, for one, really, really glad that I took the last week off, because I think I'd pretty much clocked off anyway. I remember closing like my office door all the time, like telling my team I was working on something important and doing wedding things, because your brain just switches off. That's all you can think about. There's lots of things to do. The anticipation, you know, it's all a lot. So, please, I want to recommend that you definitely take that week off in the leader. I cannot recommend that enough, even if you're like but I'm so organized, like I've got the calm bride planner from manage my wedding, yes, yes, but still, I'm telling you, you want that final week off just to go and get massages or to go for walks or to look after your health and make sure you're getting plenty of sleep and resting and all those things. So, yes, take it from me, you're not going to do much work anyway.

Yvette Sitters:

Now, luckily, most of my guests didn't actually arrive until a couple of days before my wedding. We were in Perth, as most of you know, getting married, so everyone had to travel to us, and I think it really saved me that I was kind of like on my own. I took the whole week off. James took, I think, from the Wednesday or the yeah, no, the Wednesday off, because we got married on the Friday. So he had the Wednesday Thursday off, you know, and that was fine because I was the one in Christ in the wedding planning, but everyone else didn't really arrive till Tuesday or mostly even Wednesday for our wedding. So I spent the first few days off work, checking in on my vendors and confirming all the details which is something I highly recommend you do making sure they're going to turn up and that you're all on the same page. You know, I spent it packing my overnight bag and getting things to the venue, making a couple of changes to the floor plan because we had someone that couldn't make it. So just little things like that. Those little things add up and take time, and I'm just so grateful for the fact that I was organized because when my guests actually arrived into the state I could spend time with them when they arrived.

Yvette Sitters:

And it was so busy in the last like day, I reckon the last 48 hours it was pretty busy as well. You know, there were lunches, there were dinners, there were spray tans, they were getting nails done, there was a rehearsal the day before and all those little things, and everyone trust me texts you and everyone phoned you. And I just remember getting a message from someone who's like hey, do you know what my room number is? Because they haven't got a room reserved for me. And I'm like well, everyone booked their own rooms. I am busy, like it's not really my problem, but people don't think, they just don't know, so they just message you. And I'm just a person who always wants to help people, so I go into you know, fixing a situation, but you'll get lots of messages like hey, what time is the bus that's picking us up, even though there was a wedding website, even though there was a letter left in their room with all the details. It's just what humans do, let's be honest.

Yvette Sitters:

So I mentioned before, at the start of the podcast, that wedding glow that we are all trying to achieve, that we want everyone to say, oh my gosh, you look so wedding Ready. And what gives you that, like, what gives you that, what makes you have that wedding glow? Well, I'm telling you, it is not just about a stunning bridal gown or a fancy suit. It's how you actually look in the face when everyone looks at you that relaxed and calm and in love and healthy look. It's not eating sugar and not drinking alcohol, potentially in the last couple of weeks, because that does show in your skin.

Yvette Sitters:

Stress shows. We all know how much stress will show, and being tired will show very much. You know, no matter what a makeup artist can do and how brilliant they are, if you were stressed and you've had no sleep, there's only so much they can cover that up. So you want sleep, you want to be organised so that you can focus on your lover and the person you're marrying and so that you look so happy to be there and not exhausted and over at all. That's why I truly believe it is just so important to have like a roadmap for those final weeks and even those last you know few months, and that's exactly why I created, you know, your final 90-day wedding guide, which is my stress-free countdown. I created it so that you know what to action and what to prioritise, in exact order, so you can stay on track, eliminate any stress and anxiety, so that nothing is missed and you get a restful night's sleep, so that you can have that wedding glow on the day that you're trying to achieve. So if you have not seen that. I'm going to link it in the show notes because it's honestly, oh, I love it so very, very much, and it's perfect if you're in the last 90 days or in the last month. It covers absolutely everything and it is worth having because it will save your sanity and get you to sleep and help you get that wedding glow.

Yvette Sitters:

Now, what are some practical tips for staying calm? Because I think that's really really important. One of the things is delegating your tasks, but the right ones that are not going to affect you or stress you out because you don't have control over them, and I give a big, complete list of all those delegating tasks that you need to delegate out to rid you of any stress and to have people not interrupting you constantly the day before and the day of the wedding. And it's asking others to run around and collect your last minute things as well Like that is really important. Lean on, people ask for their help, and it's also important for leaving what I call white space in your calendar.

Yvette Sitters:

Now, what is white space? Well, for me, white space and I do this in my business as well it allows us to have space to put our attention on something that might need attention. If your calendar for your wedding is full of lunches and dinners and appointments, then there's no time to actually fix anything or talk to vendors who need you or if something is potentially gonna go wrong and need your attention. You don't have any space in your calendar because you filled it up. So I call that white space, just blocking out white space. Even if that is like 9 am till 11 am every morning in the last week of your wedding, whatever that looks like to you, or even if that's three till 5 pm, just leave some white space where there's nothing booked in, no reminders, nothing, so you can either sit on the couch and go oh my God, I just need to sit because I'm tired, or I need to meditate because I'm super anxious and nervous, or I've just had a phone call to say that the cake maker's sick and she's not gonna finish the cake. Okay, I've got time to sit down and find a cake maker.

Yvette Sitters:

So it's just really, really important leaving white space, because I think it helps you stay calm, it gives you time to react to things or just to listen to what your body needs. So I think that is super, super important. You know your wedding day is one of the most important celebrations, days, occasions, whatever you want to call it in your life, and it's meant to be totally cherished and you're meant to enjoy it and you're meant to embrace the moment and look and feel your best. So these things that I've just shared are just so important I cannot stress them enough.

Yvette Sitters:

Please, again, if you haven't checked out my stress-free wedding guide in that final 90 days, please go, do that. I'm going to link it in here. Please delegate tasks, as I said. Please have others help you run around. Please create white space. Please look at you, know what you're eating, the sleep that you're getting, and remember also that, yes, there are people in your life that love you. I want to spend time with you in the lead-up, but be good at saying no in those final weeks. Honestly. Be good at saying no, don't have a million lunches and dinners, just have those important ones.

Yvette Sitters:

So, yeah, that's just really what I wanted to share with you in this episode.

Yvette Sitters:

I want you to have stress-free lead-up to your big day in those final weeks, like I truly, truly do. It's so important to having the best day ever and it's so important to having that wedding glow that I know that you all truly want, because when you have that wedding glow, you are enjoying that moment. You are enjoying it and it shows and everyone else feels that too, and they will enjoy that moment as well. So I hope that has helped you. Thank you so much for listening. I just want to say, if you enjoyed the Manage my Wedding podcast, I would absolutely love it if you go to Spotify or you go to Apple Podcasts and give it a five star review. And if you are in Apple Podcasts, please just write me a little note just to tell me that you're enjoying them, because that just helps me deliver you more every single week and helps other bridal couples find the Manage my Wedding podcast as well. And until next time, enjoy being engaged and staying stress-free and organised while planning the wedding of your dreams.