Planning while getting your Phd

I wasn’t working on a PhD but I was working on my Masters for the first 6 months of wedding planning!
I got engaged in May and just finished up my masters program in October, while also teaching full time from May-June and then July-October.
I didn’t do much wedding planning until summer break hit because I was having trouble juggling wedding planning, work, AND masters coursework+project. Once summer break hit, I tried to get a lot of the big things taken care of (photographer, venues, caterer, dress) but I definitely let my masters course work slip through the cracks a bit. Ended up taking a little longer to finish the project than I planned. I had to really buckle down and kind of ignore the wedding planning for a month or two so I could focus on finishing my coursework and project, especially once school started again. HahaGood luck with yours!!

I got engaged right after my acceptance, so we rushed around and got a lot done before the fall semester. Then, we kind of left it alone until winter break. My wedding was in summer to also coincide with the break.

I am not getting my PhD but I am in law school! I am in class from 8am-5:30 and then have about 4-5 hours of studying after that. For the first month and a half I didn’t put in as much work as I should have because I got engaged one week before the semester started and I was just soooo excited and wanted to plan. So instead of 4-5 hours of studying I was putting in about 2..maybe 3 on a good day. After I realized I was getting behind I totally stopped planning and now I’m working to catch up on everything for finals! It was really hard at first and hopefully won’t hurt my grades too much, but I have a lot of time before my wedding so I can take it slower!!

Yes girl! I’m getting my PhD and It’s work doing both. Sometimes I literally forget I’m planning my wedding lol. It doesn’t help that my wedding is in the south and I’m in school in the North East 😏. I try to set days on which I do wedding stuff so I don’t get too overwhelmed. I also chose to go with venue that has an all inclusive wedding package so I wouldn’t have to find too many separate vendors. Booking things ahead of time definitely helped. So we’re less stressed. Now we just have to pay off things. Good luck with your planning! We’ve got this✊🏾

I’m not getting my PhD but I do work full time while getting my masters. I did do a lot during a break in classes (summer) but it definitely got harder when classes started again. Just do it when you have time!

I’m in my fifth year of PhD and getting married in 10 days. It’s been really awful planning this. We got engaged two years ago but didn’t really start planning until our families got over the fact their daughters were getting married. Which left us planning alone and with barely any family involvement. Add PhD experiments, manuscripts, impostor syndrome and I feel like I failed completely. My partner works nights too so the majority of the planning has fallen on me. Not to be a bummer but it’s been horrible.

I'm wedding planning while working on my Master's. I don't think it has been that bad, but definitely don't think I'm as focused on my thesis as I should be. I'm in the fieldwork portion of my degree so its pretty much like working a normal job with a few extra assignments. I think it would be way worse if I had actual classes and projects to do.

I waited until after I finished the PhD to start planning. We were engaged a year before I started making any progress on specifics (although I had some ideas for venue, dress, etc). A friend of mine got married during her PhD, but her mom planned most of it. I had thought that planning would be easier after the PhD, but it's not because I still have conference papers, grant applications, publications, etc. No rest for the weary! Good luck for your wedding. I hope that you can enjoy it despite the PhD.