Often you cannot hope to organise everything directly for your big wedding day yourself. It may be that certain members of the family on both sides have certain skill sets that could help your wedding planning and wedding day to go a lot smoother, if you let them be involved with particular aspects of the actual planning of your wedding. Use these skills and their time and expertise if you possibly can. It can save you a great deal of stress.

This will also possibly help both sides of the family arrangement feel more involved on the big day and can be a great icebreaker, building up and cementing further family bonds on both sides.

What’s more it can actually be fun for the family to do this together.

Of course it’s not appropriate in every family to do this, only you know really what can work best for you.