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Holding down a full-time job while planning a wedding is no easy feat. It can be so difficult to balance professional responsibilities with the emails, phone calls, research, and vendor appointments that are part and parcel of wedding planning.
How have you managed to balance work with wedding planning? Do you ever find yourself wedding planning while at work (we won’t tell anyone!)?
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Guilty 
It was really hard those last four months. I had lists coming out the ears. We had to call X amount of people today, then another set tomorrow, was this timing going to work, did the rental company get the contract, what’s aunt so-and-so’s address, has so-and-so RSVP etc.
I came across a few honey-do lists of mine those last three months and I don’t know how we handled it without cell phones or being able to email each other.
Um, I plan at work a lot of the time. But I justify it by telling myself that I’m quitting at the end of April anyway.
Because I’m planning my wedding from a different state, I definitely use the internet at work to do research, but I send all of my e-mails on my own time.
I’m just too busy to NOT wedding plan at work, especially when I have to make phone calls during business hours.
I absolutely plan at work. as a matter of fact, I go on wedding bee at work! which is where I am right now!
“Six THOUSand dolla’s? It’s not even leatha’!”
That’s it 
LOVE that movie!
Hehe, I’m AT work right now if that says anything. I lucked out though. Both of my bosses (both wonderful ladies) are re-living their weddings through me. They are constantly sending me articles, webpages, and ideas they find. As long as my work gets done, they seem to actually _encourage_ me to do wedding stuff. 
I’m totally guilty of planning our wedding during work time. My boss knows it. He sees me checking out dresses and such. But I have a lot of downtime at work, so it’s not like I’m doing this and not helping clients. I know my job comes first.
I always wedding plan from work. I don’t feel guilty about it, either, because I am in the lab generally over 80 hours/week, so if I don’t plan from work, it doesn’t get done. If I only worked 60 hours/week then I’d refrain from doing anything non-worked related while here, but since I am ALWAYS in the lab, I just have to do it here. Sorry but vendors aren’t open at 5am when I leave for work or 9pm when I’m getting home from work!
I’m working 2 jobs and trying to plan. Fortunately, it’s a small wedding without alot of the more traditional bells and whistles.
I mostly do all of my calling/research during breaks however. I’m in the middle of a huge deadline and if I don’t get the project completed, I lose the job that is financing our wedding!
I’ve super lucky…..my boss is normally a work-a-holic but he understands about females and wedding planning so he basically let me have a flex schedule to run errands as needed! However, being in sales, I still have to meet the month end quotas so it’s been really stressful. I can’t wait until the wedding is over with.
Ha ha ha I have 2 jobs and I plan at both of them. The funny thing is I got a 2nd job at a tux shop so I could get a discount on the tux’s for the wedding!
Also I need to add that I’m overworked and underpaid so that’s why my boss is cool with me wedding planning at work. He highly recommends it.
I feel you Miss Jasmine. Sometimes email is the end of me. I think I could spend a whole day responding to all the emails in my inbox and not do anything else.
And then the weekends… full of wedding stuff too! ::le sigh::
i’m self-employed and work from home which makes it extremely hard not to do a little wedding web surfing when i should be working. i just keep telling myself that work comes first, because i’ve gotta make the money to make the wedding planning even feasible. i try to schedule it in only during my “lunch break” hour or after my projects are complete.
Absolutely, I have been completely blessed to have a back-up who just got married and covers for me. Thank you!!! It allows me to leave early or take vendor phone calls when I need to.
Also, I am completely at work right now.
i try not to, and i pretend i dont, but just this morning i sent an email about djs and now im eating lunch reading weddingbee…. i USUALLY try to restrict my web browsing until the afternoon when it just seems like other people might be taking a break too…
I planned my wedding while at work. It got hectic the last 3 months before the wedding when I took on a new position and had work up to my ears while finalizing the last minute wedding stuff. Putting together a to-do list and hiring a DOC saved me at the end.
Without the graphics department’s swatch book, how would I have known the Pantone color of my bridesmaids’ dresses?!?!
Last week I was just complaining that work gets in the way of life! If only I didn’t have to work . . . yes, I plan at work all the time. Websites, phone calls, e-mails, I’m getting stuff done.
I should feel guilty but I don’t. I’m quitting in Feb because FI and I are in a LTR and I’m moving to his neck of the woods (and my boss knows already so my leaving is no secret); honestly my heart really isn’t in the job anymore. And wedding planning is so much more fun
Easy–I deal with all my vendors via e-mail! I told them up front that it would have to be like this for the most part. Also, it helps that my boss has NO IDEA I’m getting married…this weekend! He travels a lot and is really self-absorbed, so this also helps!
yes.. If my employer looked up my internet activity — it would say weddingbee weddingbee weddingbee weddingbee. But honestly, you have to take a break. The occasional web search is like a mini-vacation for your brain. I’m convinced it makes you work more efficiently in the long run.
I did most of my wedding planning at work! I have a job that has very busy periods and very quiet periods, and as long as you get everything done they’re pretty relaxed about what you do doing the quiet periods! The only thing I don’t have at work is my budget and wedding magazines!
Yeah, I’m at work right now. Sunday afternoon before a game I had a few moments and designed my RSVP postcards while sitting in the arena.
The most annoying part of wedding planning is talking to vendors who do not understand that I work out of state, in another time zone, 80 hours a week. I actually had one lady ask me, “Well, do you work? Because we really can’t accomodate weekend appointments…”
I’m a consultant and I work a lot of hours when my clients have tight deadlines. Plus, I’m planning my wedding overseas (caveat - I do have a wedding planner helping, thank god) so with the time difference, I often find myself doing research online at work or replying to his emails so they will be in his inbox when he’s awake. Thankfully, the lady across me is loudly planning her wedding with phone calls and chitchat all the time so everyone’s annoyed at her and not me. Hehe!
I am pretty good about avoiding things like that at work. I do keep my iPhone handy though and if I have an idea for something I type up a note for later.
I’ve typed up a couple wedding related e-mails at work, but I don’t ever go on wedding websites at work.
Oh, man. The last six months my job sort of WAS my wedding. I may be the worst one ever. Seriously. I’m lucky enough to not have a direct boss.. so I have a lot of freedom. I always got my work done, though. But work gave me access to fancy printers, fancy programs (Quark, Illustrator, Photoshop) that I didn’t have at home… how could a girl resist?
And I honestly don’t know how someone could plan a wedding and have a full-time job without doing a LITTLE wedding stuff at work.. if they wanted any time free on the weekends, that is!
We planned our wedding in 3.5 months. Ya think I did planning at work - oh yes I did. Spreadsheets look like spreadsheets no matter what the data.
I’m hurting for it now though; I’m very behind on a number of projects but haven’t actually missed any key deadlines. Being behind just added to the normal day-to-day anxiety.
I didn’t plan at work because i work with kids but i planned before work, afterwork and all day on the weekends.
I wish I could plan at work! Alas, I’m a teacher. My classroom has no computer and, even if it did, the super-powered firewall would prevent me from going to certain sites. I can’t even check my personal e-mail! Which is why I’m getting a blackberry and all my vendor dealings will be through e-mail. It’s also why we have a long engagement - so that I could take my time with planning & use the summer break for those crucial last few months before the wedding. I don’t know how I’ll do it - but somehow it’ll get done
YES I PLAN AT WORK. I’m pretty darn young in a LONG Term Engagement. I work 2 full time jobs (day & graveyards) to finance both mortgage and the wedding. As I’m always busy with my day job, I have LOADS of free time during my overnights. I work at a hotel, so all I pretty much need to do is get my work done and I have access to all the internet browsing / blogging as I desire.
It feels pretty nice getting ‘paid’ to plan your wedding =)
i’m no lawyer, but i work 12 hour days M-Th, and I get a break on Fridays (only 8 hour days). it really fucking sucks and i never have time. did i mention i’m planning the wedding from another state? i’m doing my wedding almost exclusively online. i haven’t met a single person outside of when we were shopping for a reception venue. even my dress is from jcrew.
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I plan at work, but that’s because I’m a wedding planner by profession. 
Actually I spend most of my time planning other weddings and mine has been sort of an afterthought, if I’m going to stay at the office an extra hour or two.
I generally don’t plan at “work” but as I’m a graduate student my hours though long are fairly flexible if I need to get things done. My 2nd job is as an equine surgery technician so I am on my feet and pretty much running in circles already no time to even contemplate the wedding. Its hard to fit it all in to evenings and weekends and I plan at work when I go in on the weekends. I’m still not sure It’ll all fit if I don’t break down and do something at work sooner or later.
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Mrs. Jasmine, Chicago/LA
Age and Occupation: 25, Attorney
Fiance's Age and Occupation: 26, Attorney
Engagement Date: March 24, 2007
Wedding Date: June 7, 2008
Blogging Since: September 20, 2007
Venue: Hotel on the westside of Los Angeles
About Me: I'm a happy-go-lucky, imaginative spirit trapped in the body of a lawyer. I love reading, shopping, dining out, and exploring my beloved adopted city of Chicago with my fiance. We're planning the wedding of our dreams in my hometown of Los Angeles and we're excited to incorporate our cherished Indian/Pakistani customs and traditions.
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