How To Ask Friends And Family To Help With Your Wedding
If you’ve ever wondered why couples can get so out of sorts over their wedding, it’s because of the planning process. Wedding planning presents a seemingly endless amount of details, and for someone who is so emotionally invested in the outcome, it can quickly become overwhelming trying to do it all on your own. Luckily, you don’t have to! Make getting ready for your wedding a group effort with these creative ideas for how to ask your friends and family to help with your wedding.
Make It an Event
Most of your friends and family are already willing to help with your wedding because they love you and want to see you enjoy your big day, but nevertheless, it’s much easier to recruit people’s help for something fun. Find things that can be done as a group, such as DIY’ing your centerpieces and invite your friends over for a crafting party with food and drinks. Everyone will have a blast and you will end up with days or even weeks’ worth of work finished in a single night.
Address Their Talents
Everyone has their own unique talents, and who doesn’t love being praised for the craft they have worked so hard to hone? Since wedding planning covers such a broad range of topics, this is the perfect chance to enlist your friends’ special talents to contribute to your wedding day. If one of your friends is incredible at decorating, let them know how much you admire their work, and what an incredible job they did at their last event. By addressing their strengths, it shows them you notice and appreciate their effort. From there, they may be more willing to share those talents with you when you ask them to help with your wedding.
Practice for Their Own Wedding
As is often the case, groups of friends in the same age group tend to get married around the same time, which means many of your friends are probably imagining their own wedding while you plan for yours. Part of the difficulty of planning a wedding is how emotionally involved you are in the outcome. Talk to your friends about their own plans for marriage and offer to help them prepare by offering a chance for them to experience the wedding planning process in a stress-free environment. Ask your friends what part of their own wedding they are most interested in, and if they would be willing to help you plan that part of your wedding so when their wedding date rolls around they know exactly what to do.
Create a Shared Document & Let People Choose Their Task
Many friends and family are willing or even eager to help with your wedding, but since they don’t want to step on anyone’s toes or are unsure what to do, they simply wait for you to ask. Let your friends and family know exactly what you need help with by creating a specific list and sharing them in a document. Consider a service like Google Drive where everyone can have access from their smartphone or computer. Invite everyone you are comfortable asking to help with your wedding, and politely ask them to volunteer their efforts with whatever task is most interesting to them. People will scramble to get the best tasks, and since no one wants to be the only person who didn’t contribute, you’ll end up with a wave of people volunteering to help!
Don’t Forget To Thank Them
There are so many things on a wedding planning to-do list we oftentimes bounce from one task to the next without taking the time to feel thankful for what we’ve accomplished. When you have family and friends contributing to your wedding plans, big or small, a lack of acknowledgment can hurt feelings and leave people feeling unappreciated.
To ensure this doesn’t happen, stock up on thank you cards. There are tons of gorgeous designs that you can find on Amazon, Etsy or at a local art store. A thank you card is a small token of your appreciation, but if you include a short handwritten message, it’s a sincere way to express your thanks.
A Team Effort
Planning a wedding is a tall task, but don’t make the mistake of thinking you need to do it alone. Use these tips to encourage your friends and family to get involved, and planning your wedding with a group of people you love will become a much more enjoyable process.
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