Money is a huge factor when organizing your dream wedding. Many couples find it difficult to be on the same page when it comes to the bill, the budget, or the family that should cover the cost.

The solution is to have a conversation with your partner and plan your budget together. You might need to compromise some expenses over others, but this will make the overall process easier for everyone.

If you and your partner come from families with different traditions, this might also cause an issue. Couples deciding to create their own traditions might also end up disappointing both families.

The best thing you can do is be honest with your family and ask for their opinions, too. You won’t be able to please everyone, but it’s your wedding, after all.

If someone else is helping you financially, they might want to have a say in what your wedding should look like. In addition, your friends will also have ideas, and you might start feeling overwhelmed.

The first thing you should do is take a moment to relax and realize that your and your partner’s opinion is all that matters. Take their advice into consideration, but make the final decision yourself.

Deciding who to invite to the wedding is one of the most common causes of problems between partners and their families. This happens quite often, especially if both of you come from big families.

This is why you want to start off with booking a venue and determining a budget first. From there, you can decide on how many people to invite and distribute that number across both parties.

It’s never fair to leave the organization process to your partner only. You need to plan and work together to make sure your vision will be brought to life.

To avoid the feelings of anger, you can write down all the tasks that need to be done. From there, each partner can choose the ones they’re excited about. This will make the entire process a lot more enjoyable, and you’ll be a lot more organized.

Nothing compares to the morbid social media cleanup that follows a split — the hours spent crying over having to remove the adorable vacation photos you took together and listening to breakup songs. Trying to pretend they never existed when they are featured in nearly every single post you have made in the last year is a painful process. The good news is that thanks to (drumroll, please) the soft launch, the custom of erasing all traces of your ex on your social media accounts is no longer necessary.

What Is a Soft Launch?

The soft launch is the solution if you’re wondering how to let people know you’re in a relationship without telling them. Although the strategy isn’t particularly novel, labeling it a soft/hard launch is — particularly as more celebrities and influencers have stunned fans and followers with subtly announced relationships. At the beginning of the soft launch, it was all about deft shots that suggested you were with someone. You may do this in a post or an Instagram story. Consider two glasses perched on a posh bar top, a hand resting on your knee that is most definitely not yours, or a gorgeous bunch of red flowers with a person’s shadow in the distance.

While this kind of soft launching is still very frequent, a newer one that is even simpler on the grid is emerging. It is now necessary to create a carousel post and subtly include a soft launch in the collection of images. So you have pictures of a nice neighborhood, you and your dog at the beach, a bagel, and then a picture with your new beau amidst all of these other weird stuff. Because it’s buried in a ton of other pictures, you can go full out and display them, or you can do it the classic way with their face hidden. You won’t even need to remove the post if you break up!

How Is it Different From a Hard Launch?

The two methods of declaring relationships could not be more dissimilar. There was nothing more exciting than actually changing your status from “single” to “in a relationship” back when MySpace was dying out and Facebook was just starting to take off. After finishing this, you’d frequently tag your new S.O. while impatiently anticipating their acceptance, and presto! It was announced that the two of you were “officially” involved.

The hard launch morphed into publishing a very obvious “couple” photo once people switched to Instagram and there was no longer a text option to indicate your interest in someone. Common ones featured pictures of you cuddling up on the couch, sharing a passionate kiss, or standing with your hand enviously resting on them while their face was visible. Additionally, you would often tag the other person to make it simple for your followers to stalk your new companion. The words “finally” or “mom and dad” in comments would instantly elevate you to the status of #CoupleGoals. The hard launch is still a viable choice if that’s more your style, even though it has slightly lost favor.