Please help me survive my wedding (stage fright)

myplea said:
To cut the long story short. My wedding is in 10 days.
I have a history of stage fright. As soon as I find myself in the spot light in front of people, My heart starts racing, sweating, shaking, MY FACE starts twitching.

My fear is that It will be a night to remember (the wrong way) If I look pathetic, I will let my wife to be down and my family and friends.

I have to cut a cake in front of people and put the ring and necklace on her neck.


Is there anything that I can take to calm me down that night? (No alcohol)

thanks
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[SIZE=-1]Labatelol[/SIZE], a beta blocker, would work. You couldn't get physiologically worked up. I've heard of some people taking some before presentations. Of course it might put a crimp in the wedding night activities. :D



Paul
 
Hey Guys..

myplea..

I suffer from panic attacks, so I know EXACTLY what you mean...

I've found what has helped me is 1mg Ativan sl (under the tongue).
Drop one of those an hour or two before and another as the time is getting close and it will relax you enough to get through it...

Just be careful with alcohol with it, as 1 beer will seem like 3-4...

Good luck!

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
It is her day, play up to her and really no one notices the Groom except as an attachment.

My best man got the ring stuck on his finger and had to suck it off. That broke the ice well.
 
Prearrange for your best man to distract everybody by doing a pratfall if you do anything to embarrass yourself. You can hire professional acrobatic clowns to be your ushers, too. Dress them as ushers, not as clowns, but prepare the church with strategically placed ladders, buckets of whitewash, etc.

Better yet -- start a rumor that you're a notorious clown and you're likely to pretend to screw up the ceremony for comic effect, and place a drummer in the choir loft to watch you and do a rimshot every time you do something stoopid.
 
Thanks guys for the tips and much needed smiles.

sorry I cant reply to every post because I am too busy panicking. :o

I will come back here and reply in detail and report on how it went.


Love you all
 
Nothing to add. (Except congratulations!) Tons of great advice here already from everyone - expecially the warnings about too much booze beforehand. Remember - EVERYONE there LOVES you (especially the caterer!)
 
My wife and I kept laughing the whole time (even at the serious parts). My new mil kept saying bad things about the preacher in a another language (that she did not know that he spoke:D ). Our wedding coordinator got rip roaring drunk and the band ate too many dinners so the chefs had to improvise with a few guests. People we did not invite showed up (with little kids screaming at a non-kid wedding). It started raining at the outdoor reception and shorted out the bands gear (luckily we had a bunch of engineers as guests who fixed it). I got a bad sunburn just two days before the wedding so I looked like a lobster. My wife and I messed up our first dance together real bad, even after weeks of lessons. And I stepped in a deep mudpuddle while walking a guest tot their car in the rain.

It was the best wedding I was ever at! We still had a blast and everyone we know said it was the most fun wedding they had ever been too!

Don't worry about anything. Something... maybe everything will go wrong... and you will be fine. Just enjoy yourself.

Congrats and good luck!
 
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