During your hectic wedding-planning season where your wedding is actually another full-time job to add to your already packed schedule, the best thing you can do is take a good hard look at how you manage your daily tasks, how you scramble to get things done on a Sunday night, how you're running from one half-done task to another, and admit to yourself: "There has to be a better way!"

During our 11 months of wedding-planning, I found myself exhausted by busy days of juggling too many tasks followed by days where I would crash on the couch to watch a cheesy movie in the middle of the day. My brain had just had too much. And that was not stress-free living.

So here's what I suggest: for the remainder of your wedding-planning season, re-organize your weekly tasks. Monday is work tasks, Tuesday morning is returning calls to wedding vendors, Tuesday night is returning calls and e-mails to friends (being a good friend yourself and not getting lost in the role of Bride), Wednesday evening is a rest night or date night, Thursday night is wedding tasks, Friday night is date night, Saturday morning is brunch with your fiance followed by two hours of wedding tasks, and Sunday is laundry day and housecleaning. That's just my own example, and it worked fine. I no longer had to stress about household tasks because I knew I could hold that off until Sunday. Tuesday as vendor contact day gave me the freedom to put those jobs out of my mind for the rest of the week.

Try it for yourself this week. Monday is always a good time to start. How can you compartmentalize your life so that you're not juggling tons of plates all the time?

Monday:

Tuesday:

Wednesday:

Thursday:

Friday:

Saturday:

Sunday:

It's going to take some adjusting, but you'll soon feel the relief of "I don't have to get to that until Tuesday." Take it from me: this plan works.