Bride's Guide: Q&A for the Big Day
April 15, 2010— -- I'm getting married in one month and I'm starting to freak out.
Your wedding day is supposed to be the happiest day of your life, and I know that mine will be. I'm marrying a wonderful man. We have calm, generous and helpful family and friends. All the major arrangements have been made with experienced professionals.
But they don't call it the Big Day for nothing.
Whether you're having an intimate ceremony for close friends and family, an exotic destination affair or a hometown church wedding, like me, planning the happiest day of your life seems to take on a life of its own.
I'm far from being a Bridezilla, but no one would ever describe me as laid-back, either. I have lots of last-minute questions, and if the message boards and blogs on countless wedding-themed Web sites are any indication, I'm not alone. A Google search for "wedding questions" returns 122 million results.
Luckily, celebrity wedding planner and author of "The Wedding Book" Mindy Weiss has 122 million answers.
Weiss, who has orchestrated the weddings of stars such as Heidi Klum and Seal, Tony Parker and Eva Longoria Parker and Ellen DeGeneres and Portia De Rossi, agreed to coach me through the homestretch leading up to my wedding May 15. She'll also answer some of your questions, so click here to submit one.
At the end of the day, it is a Big Day, and you want everyone there to enjoy it. But first you have to know who "everyone" is.
Today was the deadline … for filing your taxes, and for replying to my wedding invitation. One month ago we addressed 115 invitations and took them to the post office. Then I waited impatiently, fully expecting the responses to start flooding in, so I could start getting organized.
CLICK HERE for Day 29, Weiss' Top 10 list of things to do in the last month if you don't have a wedding planner.
CLICK HERE to visit Mindy's Web site.
