Start Planning Early! This will give you time to enjoy the planning process, and being able to enjoy watching your ideas come to life!
Be Creative! Your day, your ideas!
Work with a coordinator! This is an expense that should not go overlooked! Working with a coordinator will offer relief for you on your Wedding Day. Working with the coordinator up to your big day will allow you both to learn about one another. This gives your coordinator some insight to how you want things to run, and what decisions you would agree with and disagree with.
Set the budget, and stick to it! Once you lose sight of the budget, it usually becomes history! Setting a budget that everyone can agree on, and sticking with that budget will make for less stress in the long run.
Have fun! You are getting married because you are in love; try not to forget that along the wedding planning way.
Good Luck 