Planning a wedding can be overwhelming and stressful when you start to think of all the things you are going to need to make your wedding perfect.

Although it is enough to make your head spin, you can easily help yourself to take away the stress by breaking your wedding planning into smaller steps and by building a priority list.

This will narrow down your focus and help you to break your wedding planning into more manageable tasks instead of focussing on the whole thing.

To easily build your priorities list, first, sit down and have the both of you write down the most important wedding elements your would like to have at your wedding.

Then be sure to mark the two or three top items that you feel are the most important to you. These are the ones you'd be willing to spend a larger chunk of your wedding budget on.

It could be the ceremony, the reception, the dress, the flowers, etc., whatever you have been envisioning since the moment you agreed to get married. Now compare both of your lists and see which of your most important elements are the same on each others list.

These same elements become the priorities for your wedding! Doing this little exercise will narrow down your top priorities where you'd like to invest more money and focus.

On these items you might want to splurge a little more and cut back in others and you can now adjust your wedding budget accordingly.

When you have a priority list, you will see which items of your wedding that you can either live without or which you can budget a smaller amount of money for, such as a cellist or a fancy limousine, etc.

You will also be happy to cross these kinds of traditional wedding expenses off of your basic wedding checklist as now there is one less item to plan and pay for.

The money you would have spent on these items could now be diverted to your priority items so that you can truly have your most perfect wedding.