Wedding Tip or Trick of the Week

Take Some Time.

Wedding season isn't even in full swing and I can feel it already.

The details, schedules, flowers, dates, fittings, pick ups, deliveries - it goes on.

What I want to talk about tonight is not the fact that planning a wedding is a huge (and equally wonderful) thing, we all know that. The part I want to address is that "it goes on," and on, and on part.

Right now in our lives we're learning the importance of taking a Sabbath every week; and for extended periods of time throughout our life.

Sabbath is defined as:

1 a: the seventh day of the week observed from Friday evening to Saturday evening as a day of rest and worship by Jews and some Christians b: Sunday observed among Christians as a day of rest and worship 2: a time of rest

It's that second of the two definitions that applies to us all.

I'm encouraging all you planning brides and grooms-to-be to take a break. At least once a week, take a night (or entire day if you're daring) off from wedding planning. Tomorrow will always be there to get done whatever was unfinished from the night before.

"But I have sooo much to do!" I don't doubt it; scouts honor.

Life, and God, are teaching me that no matter what I think I can get done, if I don't pause to take a break I'm not really getting as much done as I think. Whether from exhaustion, or whatever else weighing on a person, rest is important. Rest revitalizes, recharges and prepares for the next day/task/event ahead.

And the last thing anyone wants is to get so exhausted they are too tired, or sick, to enjoy the honeymoon.

So, I'll leave you with this: take just an afternoon, to start, with your fiance. Go out and leave the planning binder at home. Get some coffee together, or enjoy a dinner out and take time to remember why you're putting yourselves through all this wonderful work. Recharge your relationship with a date.

Now, go - enjoy one another!

Blessings,
Christine Lee Smith