Help planning.

Reach out to your bridal party and close friends. They love you and I'm sure they'd want to help you out. Just invite them over for wine and crafting or something equally fun lol.

What we did is we would set aside days to work on our DIY projects and just put a message out to our wedding party asking if anyone wouldn't mind coming over and giving us a hand. We usually had 2-4 people come over and help us with stuff.

For the day before and day of things we did the same thing and just sent a message to our group chat asking "would anyone be able to do ____ for us on ___ day" and someone would always volunteer. Our parents actually volunteered to do most of the day of things for us and our wedding party will do a lot of the day before stuff as well.

We also have a day of coordinator to help out with everything and to bounce ideas off of which was fantastic and super helpful.

Definitely ask your bridal party and close family.

My FH doesn’t want to hire a day of coordinator, although I think they’re really helpful. So we are relying on family to help us with some little things.

Start with your wedding party. Up until now I have done everything myself. Planning, scheduling payments, meeting vendors etc. I only asked my Step mom to come with me to almost everything.

I know my wedding party is completely capable, but I felt bad asking. Now that we are just under 5 months out, I am going to start using their skills, and free time to help me out.

Schedule a day to do some DIY crafts, and get some of your family together.

Make a list of things that you need help with the day before and day things. I may be a little ahead of things, but I have started working on a day of schedule for the wedding party and giving each person something to look after so I do not have to worry!

Ask your wedding party or any family close by with the diy stuff. Day of assign some select people you trust to take different tasks so you aren't worrying about things like tips, and final payments for vendors or who is making sure everything is running smoothly. I am never one to ask for help, I am not easy to trust sometimes, in this case we need to ask for that help because it can become too much

I had the same problem. I planned the entire thing on my own. I am too much of a perfectionist, and didn't trust people to complete the projects to my standards. I finally asked for help for making signs and yard games. I utilized family members skills to get them to help out. I figured out jobs they could do (and where I wasn't super worried about perfection.

I finally had to hire a day of coordinator. I would highly recommend it if you're having trouble asking for help. This way you get a professional to help who kind of takes the lead!!! Especially for the logistics and fin details!!

I know it's hard to give up control over the planning process however, you are going to have give a little to get a little so to speak. For your DIY crafts you could have everyone gather in one place and show how you would like it to be done, this way you are there to "monitor" the process and get it done the way you want. All you have to say is hey I need some help putting some things together.

All my bridal party live close by, and are always asking if I need help. I feel so bad about never "having " anything for them to help with. I honestly think that im just so stuck in my ways its hard for me to let go of the planning at all.

my MIL has helped a lot with the wine and getting supplies for crafts as for my mother I have reached out and never get a reply from her.

Hi Emily!

Is your wedding party near by? I know for a lot of DIY crafts if you are able to get the girls together for a day and do some crafts you need done then it goes by quick. Also, not sure how close you are with the MIL and your mother, but both of them told me they would always love to help. I just never ask them for help. If you have a friend or know anyone who has gotten married, I would ask their help with the hiring people and different planning as they have better idea of set up/layouts, costs, and what questions to ask when hire people. What vendors do you have left to hire?