Wedding planning consuming your thoughts at work?

How to overcome “wedding on the brain” at work!


Wedding planning consuming your thoughts at work? Use these tips to help you concentrate, focus, and keep your job (!) during a hectic time in your personal life.


Make a schedule. If you just can’t resist calling around to vendors, or peeking at wedding websites during work hours, try making a schedule or rules for yourself. Or, save the wedding fun for your 15-minute breaks and your lunch hour. If you make yourself rules, it creates incentive for you to get your work done and gives you a reward to look forward to.


Ask for a project. Perhaps you find wedding planning to be much more entertaining than your inbox. Try asking your manager to assign you to an exciting project doing something you can get caught up in, whether it is research, sales, or some other type of exciting project that can create goals and incentives for you.


Manage your time. Maybe you are caught up in wedding planning at work because you are behind in your plans. Create a calendar, or checklist with firm dates of when you need your wedding jobs done. Make these jobs a priority during your free time and you won’t be at work telling yourself that you have too many things to do to be there. Remember—you may be getting married, but you still have to make a living!


Make lists. Since there are so many things for you to juggle to keep your wedding afloat, it is easy to think about a million wedding to-dos all at once. Do yourself a favor and purchase a small notebook and pen that you can carry with you at all times. This way when you have an idea or to-do item for later, you can jot it down and know that it won’t be forgotten.


Use your vacation days. Much of your wedding planning may not fit into your down-time schedule depending on when stores are open, or when you can make time to visit vendors with your fiancé. Don’t save all of your vacation days for the honeymoon. See if you can bargain and take a day off of work here and there through your planning process to get some extra planning time.


Tried everything and still consumed? Well, maybe that tells you something about where your interests lie! If you have tried to do everything possible to get absorbed in your work, but you remain fascinated with wedding planning, maybe you should look to change careers. If you are bored with sales presentations, but thrilled about wedding planning, perhaps you should consider becoming a wedding planner. Then you will have every right to be consumed with weddings at work!