How to deal with pre-wedding jitters

Will Williams Meditation share expert tips on beating wedding stress

Are you feeling anxious about your upcoming wedding? Stressed and worried at the prospect of facing issues during actual wedding or wedding planning? Sick to your stomach? Having bad dreams? Don’t worry, pre-wedding jitters are more common than you think.

“No matter how perfect the picture, for many people, it’s almost inevitable that – along with all the happiness and anticipation – they are going to be racked with wedding nerves”, explains Will Williams, Europe’s leading Vedic meditation expert. “Having wedding jitters does not mean that the marriage is doomed or that it is time to call off the wedding. It is important for brides and grooms to know how to beat wedding nerves and enjoy their big day.”

Five ways to beat your wedding nerves

1. Meditate and relax. Ideally, you would start meditating in the months before your wedding, as it will help you combat stress – not to mention being 250% more effective at reducing anxiety compared with any other technique., as well as bringing about a 42% reduction in sleep disorders. When you get stressed this part of the brain goes into overdrive and releases stress hormones into your system, disrupting the body’s normal functioning and preparing it for “fiight or flight”. Meditation calms you down and lessens the fear and nerves you may be feeling. It also bolsters your confidence, leaving you more than ready to walk down the aisle is style. Even if you have never meditated before, or your wedding is just days away, you can still benefit from Vedic meditation, Will and his team offer courses over three days.

2. Lay out everything you need the night before. Take everything you need and neatly lay it out somewhere obvious. Nothing is more guaranteed to make a person incandescent with stress than being unable to find something! Have it all in sight and ready.

3. Designate a last-minute planner. Learn to assign tasks. It is your wedding so on this special day your soon to be mother-in-law’s broken car or missing ornaments are not your problem. Assign your most organised bridesmaid or family member to tackle any last minute and unexpected issues.

4. Exercise it off. If you are feeling jittery and tense on the morning of your wedding day, go for a run to reduce the anxiety. Exercising uses up and burns away stress hormones. If you’re already in your dress, make-up and hair all in place, and glass of bubbly in hand, dance out your wedding nerves with your bridesmaids. Putting on your favourite songs, the kind you usually reserve for preparing for a big night out, and belting them out with your best friends is an easy way to help you feel brilliant.

5. Remember why you’re getting married and visualise the future. Developing positive thinking is without doubt more beneficial than dwelling on negative tendencies. When we meditate, numerous physiological and neurological changes take place that facilitate a more natural state of inner harmony. The by-product of many of these processes is a completely spontaneous level of positivity.