The F**K It Bucket: Surviving Wedding Planning

Pictured: A galvanized metal bucket covered in morning dew, perfect for tossing your unwanted wedding decisions into for later consideration.

There is a myth in wedding planning - reinforced by reams of charts and checklists, thousands of blogs and Pinterest posts - that there is one true way to have a wedding and that if you're falling short of that then everyone's going to laugh at you. It's the kind of thing that turns wedding planning from planning a fun party into an endless slog through swatches of ecru and eggshell all in search of some Platonic ideal of a wedding.

So let me introduce you to the most powerful tool in wedding planning, that will help save you time, money and mental health as you put together your Boston wedding.

The Fuck It Bucket.

Because at the end of the day it doesn't matter what font you used for your invitations, what flowers were in your bouquet, or even if you didn't book Ryan Richardson Photography as your Boston Wedding Photographer. The thing that matters is that you're marrying someone that's super-excited to marry you right back. The Fuck It Bucket is about giving yourself permission to put the things about your wedding that are stressing you out (or not bringing you joy) to the side.

No one will die if you don't have a cute belly band on your invitations. No one will know about all the options you rejected and the things you didn't do, they'll only see the wedding that you lay out in front of them.

The Fuck It Bucket is about giving yourself permission to abandon the things about your wedding that are making you sweat unnecessarily and using that energy to focus on the things that make you excited about the main event. On your 40th anniversary, those things you loved and were excited about are going to be what you remember about your wedding day (that and your great  Boston Wedding Photography by Ryan Richardson Photography).

What are you going to be throwing into your Fuck It Bucket?

Ryan Richardson is a wedding and engagement photographer serving Boston and beyond; including Cape Cod Weddings, New England Weddings, Massachusetts Weddings and Rhode Island Weddings.