What have you learned about yourself from wedding planning?

I have learnt that I can be creative, can keep to a budget (darn... no more excuses) and am also able to stand up to my parents - who typically have very different views to my fiance and I!! x

I learned that there is always a solution for everything.

Erm... I mean where there's a will... LOL

Also, most importantly, I learned to stop judging people by my standards... I always end up disappointed. I was brought up by an incredibly thoughtful mother, and she instilled in me from a very young age respect for others, respect for certain courtesies and for manners.

So I get very disappointed when, for instance, I send someone close a present, or a card and they don't even acknowledge it, or when I email someone with a question to which I need an urgent answer and they don't reply, or when people are sending me messages written in a rush or when angry and taking it out on me - I always end up deleting stuff time and time again even when writing a text, only to make sure that person won't take it the wrong way... Or, when someone lets me down repeatedly saying they'll do something and then at the last minute texting to say, 'oh sorry, can't come now' or 'oh, sorry I am skint now', especially when the meeting was arranged weeks in advance! It is not that I want thanks, or acknowledgement, far from it, it just makes me feel that me and my manners are old-fashioned and that I am thoughtful enough not to do those things to others and always put myself in those people's shoes, and saddens me how ignorant this society is becoming...

Oops - that got a bit deep... LOL

That I'm a control freak....lol

Viking Princess- blimey fricking nora! Are you me?! You've just written what I was thinking :-)

That I hate wedding planning.

That I have trouble making decisions!!!

Niknak

That i want too get married to my husband again as all the MONTHS of planning where all so worth it and the tiny details that ARE SO IMPORTANT before hand you DO NOT notice on the day!! xxxx

That I'm bl**dy good at project planning!! (if I do say so myself)

That i'm not wired the same way as most women. I fail to get excited about wedding dresses, flowers etc.

That i'm tight. I refuse to spend large amounts of money on stuff just for one day. I think my OH knew this about me when he said we have no budget. He felt safe knowing I wouldn't go OTT.

That I am not as organised as I thought I was!

That I extremely highly strung - I always knew I was but Ive had some quite impressive moments throughout the planning!

I have no patience whatsoever. Im a bit like a child - I say things when im frustrated that dont make sense & expect people to understand & do what i need done. lol

That my tolerance for idiots is lower than I had previously realised.

That the sort of person you are is reflected in the quality of your friends.

That I like to sing loudly in my car to relieve stress.

That I'm totally unflappable under pressure

That my family are not, and they take a huge amount of reassurance to get anything done

That I'm more tolerant of my family flapping than I realised

That I can plan a totally fabulous wedding in just a few months that people are still telling me was the best they've ever been to!!

That I am a complete and utter control freak! ?

That I'd really rather just go get married on a beach somewhere with just OH and my family.

That I don't really care if half the people are at my wedding ?

That I'm a little bit wedding obsessed now!!

That I love my OH more than anything.

Thank God I am not the only one!!! ?

That too!!! My BMs told me at one point to just "bloody order us around a bit!" as they had enough of my continuous "Whatever you want, girls, I would hate to have mopey BMs because they don't like their dress / shoes / hair / make-up etc"

I am quite lazy but at the same time freaking out about wedding planning...quite an impressive feat really.

I have no ability to stick to a budget.

I thought i was good at speaking my mind, but i'm not as good at that as i believed.

That although I am usually indecisive, I can stick up for myself now and then

That I don't think it was such a good idea to plan a wedding with a lot of other stuff going on in my life as well