27 Stages of Wedding Planning Told in Kim Kardashian GIFs
Kim Kardashian has a response for everything - you can map your own wedding planning journey in these amazing Kim K GIFs
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Wedding planning is a bit of a rollercoaster. There are ecstatic highs and stomach-dropping lows. Who better to walk you through the process than Kim Kardashian, with her words of wisdom, wry facial expressions and masses of experience?
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He’s Just Proposed
You’re like, literally, on cloud nine. Your partner has proposed and it was the most beautiful moment ever. He’d tailored it all to suit you and you love the ring and now you just need to Instagram it for all your fans (or family and friends) to see.
Fantasy Land
You have got a stack of bridal magazines, you’ve signed up to Pinterest, and you’ve set up your Hitched account. It’s time to browse. You’re a bride. This is actually happening! You’ve fallen in love with a thousand dresses, you like all the themes and your day is going to be totally unique.
How Do You Plan a Wedding?
Seriously. Where to begin? Can I just book a date? Who do I tell about the date I want? What comes first? Is it time to sample cakes yet?
Reality Hits
All the things you love cost money. And there are a lot of tasks to complete. Why does your partner just say ‘I don’t mind, you choose’ to everything you show them? Don’t they want to have some input?!
Time to Think About Your Budget
Ok, how much have we got to spend on this wedding? That much? That’s so much. A wedding wouldn’t cost that much, would it? How have we got that much? That’s going to get us an amazing venue, the dream dress and an awesome wedding cake, easily.
Draft the Guest List
Now you have a ballpark figure of how much you have to spend. It’s time to draft your guest list. How many people do you need to invite? Who is going on the reserve list? How much per head will it cost? Do you invite your colleagues? Do you even like your colleagues? It’s time to decide what’s more important – budget or distant family members…
Budget Reality
Now you’ve listed all the people you like enough to share your day with, it’s time to be realistic about the budget. What seems like a hefty amount of money may not seem so hefty anymore. How much per head do you need to allocate for guests? Why does that only leave that much for the dress? What is the venue hire fee? Can I just take a nap?
Choosing Your Venue
So you’ve got your guest numbers and an idea of how much you have to spend – it’s time to look at venues and hope the one you like the loves you enough to offer you an amazing deal. Practise your nicest smile for the wedding coordinator! Remember to be honest about your budget and what you need – our 17 wedding budget hacks can help you save on the big things like your venue.
Pick Your Bridesmaids
It’s time to say ‘will you be my bridesmaid?’ Think carefully about who you choose – not only do you not want to be saddled with a bad bridesmaid, but you want people who will make your bridal entourage look fierce, and plan an awesome hen party.
Speaking of Hen Party
If you drop enough hints, you’ll be safe right? How well do your best friends know you? Oh god. Will they plan a hen party you’ll actually want to go to?
Shop for Your Wedding Dress
Choosing your wedding dress is literally so exciting. You think you know exactly what you want. You try on all the dresses. You fall for something you never imagined yourself wearing – and it’s within budget too. Thank you, wedding dress god.
Your First Wedding Planning Fight
It’s about now that you’re due your first wedding planning fight. It’s not really a fight…more of a bicker. But you’re so excited about your latest wedding accessory, your partner just doesn’t get it. If he even dares to use the bridezilla word, remind him that this is a totally legit bridezilla moment.
The Pinterest Binge
You’re a Pinterest fiend. Everything you see, you need. You can’t see the floor in the spare room because of all the essential wedding accessories.
I Don’t Even Want a Theme
You’re sick of Pinterest. You’ve looked at too much stuff. Do you even need a theme? Why can’t you not have a theme? Surely that’s possible.
The Woah How Much?
How can it cost so much for oversized helium balloons? You pull this face when you think it’s going to be really cheap and wow, it’s definitely not.
All the Choices
Why is it you don’t hear from your suppliers for ages, and then in one week they all email and want you to choose between blush or pastel, circle or square, italic or bold?
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Other People’s Opinions
Oh the joy of other people’s opinions. I don’t care that you don’t like mint green. I don’t care that you prefer chicken. I don’t care that you didn’t have that in your day. Don’t. Care.
Difficult Guests
It’s bad enough when they give you their unwanted opinions. It’s worse when they ask to choose where they sit, for a totally different meal or if they ask if they can bring a guest. Who does that? Don’t they know the wedding guest rules?
The ‘Mother Face’
The face you have adopted when your mother (or mother-in-law) tells you all her views on what you’re planning, eating, wearing and saying.
Someone Messes Up
Your invitations arrive with a misprint. Your photographer doesn’t reply to your urgent email within five minutes. Your friend who is making the table plan bows out with a feeble excuse about having to go to a family dinner.
The Dress Wobble
You love your dress. Until you go to a wedding show and see your dress designer has brought out a new collection and you might love one of those more. Or the bridalwear shop emails you with a link to ‘Just In!’ dresses. Why would they do that? Why did you let yourself look? Time to revisit your dress and remember why you fell for it.
The Pre Wedding Diet
It’s not a diet, it’s a new healthy way of life. That must get healthier ahead of your next dress fitting. But maybe one last cheat day before you resign yourself to months of courgetti and lean turkey mince.
Emotional Stress
It’s too much. It’s all too much. Which hairstyle do you choose? How are you meant to know how much white wine vs. how much red wine to order? Why does everyone have to ask you everything?! I don’t know how you’ll get to the venue. I don’t care. Ask someone else. I’ve got too much to do.
The Weird Wedding Dreams
You’ve dreamt about marrying your old maths teacher, about your photographer not showing up and about losing your wedding dress and having to get married in a paisley dressing gown. When will it stop? You’re overdue a good night’s sleep.
Nerves and Cold Feet
Really, you want nothing more than to be married, but as the pressure builds everyone has that fleeting breakdown moment where you find yourself Googling ‘thinking of eloping’ or ‘how to get married with no one there’, or even ‘how do I get married without a wedding’. It will pass!
Ecstatic Excitement
It’s the day before the wedding and all worries are out the window. The sun is shining and you’re so ready to be a Mrs!
Wedded Bliss
It’s your wedding day! You are now a married couple and nothing in the world could top this feeling. It’s time for the honeymoon…
If this article is literally you, make sure you read about the 15 bridezilla moments that are totally legit. You’ll like, love it.
