Registrars
I was under the impression that weddings were these hideously complex, fantastically expensive shows where the veneer of ‘The Perfect Day™’ was spread thinly round the climax of months of grief. Thankfully I am wrong, or more to the point our wedding isn’t going to be like that.
Tip number one for a stress free day is a small venue. Why pay for a large venue that will cost a fortune and increase the likelyhood of one or more of the guests having a drama when you can have a smaller venue that is every bit as lovely (if not more so) and much cheaper. Less guests mean less cash, less worries with seating plans, not having to worry about things like a top table, dance floor, DJ, etc. All in all A Good Thing™.
Tip number two is to phone the registrar on a day distantly removed from any where they may be moving office or any other such activities. Admittedly I failed with this bit, choosing instead to try to phone them on Friday just as they’d finished packing up to move office. Monday they were closed and Tuesday (today) the finally opened at a bit before 10 but were unable to secure my booking because they needed paying and the card machine wasn’t up and running. Given we’d found the perfect venue on the perfect date there was no way I was letting any bugger nick our spot so I jumped in the car, drove to their office and booked in person. I’m hoping that will be the most stressful event of the whole wedding planning process (I’d rate it about 0.4 on a stress scale of 0-10).
Tip number three, and one I’ll be sticking to rigidly, is that although there is a maximum number of guests we don’t need to invite that number. If anyone who is invited is not happy with any of the arrangement we’ll cheerfully uninvite them and put the money towards the honeymoon.
So the date is set, registrar booked, venue booked, photographer sorted, makeup sorted, dress in the process of being sorted, suits sorted, flowers paid for (but need to be sorted), cake is pretty much sorted. All that’s left to do really is choose the menus and say ‘I do’. Got 9 months to sort that out 
Yea, I don’t know why people have so much stress with their weddings.
Mine was fairly simple and straightforward, the only tricky part was getting an interpreter for my mum-in-law to be, and that turned out to be simple.
IMO, it’s far more stressful being a best man at somebody else’s wedding, as you actually have responsibilities then!
Mine’s quite lucky. He needs to hold the rings, pass the rings and that’s about it really. I’m not having a stag do, there are no speeches or anything and I’m spending the night before at the venue so getting me there isn’t going to be hard