When should really the planning begin…

Greetings from Lusaka on a Tuesday like this… well it appears we have finally managed to post some thoughts to the blog after a long battle with the hotel’s wireless connection. When technology is like this. It’s not really useful. It appears there just been a wave of hotels installing wireless connections for their guests but at times these things don’t work well, you know.

Anyways Lusaka is really hot. We got here Saturday and the temperature was around 30 degrees according to the information we got just before landing… that’s pretty hot! With elections coming up here, it's a hive of activity.

Ok, today we were just wondering and pondering around the issue of wedding planning. We just laid back to think about when really should the planning process of a wedding event occur. Should it start 2 years before or 6 months before? This at face value, my look harmless to say the least. It might simply look like anytime that you think you should start it’s tea time. But we realize that the longer [more time] it takes to plan for a wedding, generally speaking, the better is the result ...basically meaning the best the wedding will turn out to be holding other things constant.

But why is this? Well we guess it’s simply because most of the things that go wrong on the wedding day are as a result of poor planning. Ample preparation time is a prerequisite for any successful wedding. 2 years of planning is worthwhile. You don’t necessarily have to have money, then, in order to plan. Remember successful businesses that eventually got money from the bank where initially simply brilliant ideas on paper. Your wedding is by any means not a business project but the same principle of planning and laying out brilliant ideas on paper that produces brilliant results still applies.

But again, some have successfully done it before to plan their wedding within 6 months and succeed which is ok… only that almost invariably, the expense has been great because you want everything to be done in a hurry so you do not have time for bargains and negotiations or even to look for other cheaper alternatives simply because you have run out of time and you want to avoid a disaster. Naturally, avoiding disasters costs more money indeed. If you are in this situation of limited planning time, well all is not lost. We are sure you can still manage to pull through only that try to take care of the big cost so that you spend less on those to avoid a rip off. You also need to try and stretch the time available in the day in meetings and briefings in order to get a handle constantly on how things are unfolding within your clearly restricted time line.

So to end this post for today, allow yourself a good planning time so that you can make use of all the planning tools available around which are designed to save you time and money. We touched on these tools on another post [you may wish to look in our Previous section]. One and half to 2 years of planning in advance is not bad at all. It’s not that you only can’t wait to wed [well we guess all of us get into that kind of feeling] but it’s only that in addition to not being able to wait to wed, you also want the best and for things to go well too!

But before we go, we just wanted to let this cat out of the bag... happy news... Zimbridal is commissioning some local software engineers to develop our own local wedding software that would be sold in Zim$. We don't know how long it will take but we think not in the too distant future it should be avaliable. You will be the first to know... certainly.

To Your Special Day!