The Knot Chicago Weddings Magazine

how to plan your wedding at work (without getting fired)

Even with a team of professionals, planning your wedding can feel like a full-time job, and chances are you already have one of those. Here’s how to get all those planning to-dos—invitations! music! menus!— checked off your list without falling behind on your nine-to-fiver.

time it right

The first trick to balancing your new job and the one that you actually get paid to do is knowing which tasks to do when. Many wedding professionals keep the same office hours as you do, and their weekends and evenings (aka your free time) tend to be spent working on actual events. In other words, wedding planning isn’t just a night-and-weekend-only job— some things will

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