Jp Reynolds

How To Plan Your Wedding - And Stay Sane! Jp Reynolds

"I love my mother, but she's driving me crazy""The stress is too much; I'm ready to elope to Vegas""I'm trying to please everyone, but. . .""Whatever she wants is fine with me. I'm staying out of it""I'm worried that it won't be perfect"Ask any bride or groom and chances are they'll say that at some point in planning for their wedding they uttered one or more of the above phrases. Parents have black belts in the art of emotional blackmail. Family and friends will flame toss accusations that come from nowhere - or from a "forgotten" moment five years before. A couple is bombarded with the unforeseen costs - financial and emotional. While planning for a wedding, the quality of communication between a couple decreases as stress increases. How To Plan Your Wedding - And Stay Sane! is for couples overwhelmed with the demands of planning their wedding. It's based in the belief that clear, honest, healthy communication goes a long way to reducing stress by cutting through misunderstanding and misperception. Through the examples of real life wedding stories, I offer couples simple, easy to use communication tips and techniques to help them get heard and understood, with each other, with family members and with vendors. These strategies allow a couple to stay sane by replacing mind games with effective tools for bringing their wedding dream to reality. I'm a non-denominational wedding officiant and during the last twenty years I've performed over one thousand wedding ceremonies. I'm also a corporate communications coach and trainer. On a daily basis, I help people learn smart, healthy communication skills so they can form satisfying relationships - both professional and personal. Throughout the book, I draw on my experiences as a wedding officiant and a communications coach. While reading the book a bride or groom will be able to think to themselves: -We're not alone-We never thought of that before-There is hopeThis book allows a couple to plan their wedding as a couple and so turn their wedding dream into a reality.