Hey! I want to add some advice( in my long long 3 weeks of marriage-we just got back from the honeymoon!!
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1) Definately spend time with your fiance where the wedding is NOT mentioned. Sometimes I would come home from a 12 hour at the hospital and we would immediately have 5 items to discuss, and it made me crazy!!
2) Pick a nice, yet inexpensive bridesmaids dress!! Seriously, who wants to spend a couple of hundred on a dress they aren't crazy about that they'll never wear again??
3) Set limits with parents. When my husbands mother called 5 times in one day with stuff about the wedding, we started to let people know that it was not ok to do that.
4) Remember it's YOUR wedding. Not your mom's, or his mom's, or your grandmothers-just yours. You should have your wedding any way you want it!! Even if others hate your ideas, or are chipping in money-the day is yours!! So if you want goldfish as centerpieces, do it!! (Which I did, by the way
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5) Bridal magazines are the devil's playground. They will make you feel bad and unorganized and behind schedule. Burn them immediately.
6) At the reception, don't feel like you have to make the "meet and greet" rounds-people will come to you, so if you want to dance to every song, do it!!
And the most important-during the day, take breathes and REMEMBER EVERYTHING. It's so easy to get caught up in the excitement, and later you don't remember what happened. At the reception, my husband and I sat down to eat, and we stopped for a minute and looked around the reception, and at the people and the cakes and decorations-and how perfect it was. And have a sense of humor about the day!! The head fell off of my husbands cake right before the reception(his cake was in the shape of a horned frog) and the bakers had to come back and fix it-but by that time I was married and didn't care!!
Ok, now I'll stop because I could go on and on!!