When you’re engaged and jumping on the wedding planning train, advice will suddenly start to surround you. Every article you read online will be about wedding do’s and don’ts and every friend and family member will try to feed you tips and tricks that they think you absolutely need to hear before it’s your turn to walk down the aisle. So when all of this advice is coming into your life, sometimes unwarranted, it’s important to recognize what advice is helpful and what advice should be kicked to the curb. Want to know to spot terrible advice? Well, here are 7 wedding planning tips you should 100% avoid.

1. Go Skimpy With the Food
Past brides will try to tell you that nobody eats the food so don’t go above and beyond with premium food packages where you offer a selection of appetizers and main courses. But the truth is, the food is one of the main things guests remember about your wedding and you can predict how hungry they’ll be. So make sure there are several food options and something that even the pickiest eaters can devour while they are at your wedding.

2. Just Improv Your Vows
Spend quality time writing your vows and even memorizing them if you can. You’ll be so chocked up by nerves and emotion on the day of your wedding that you may not be able to speak from the heart, improve style.

3. Wait for Your Wedding Dress to Go on Sale
Think the longer you wait to buy your dress the cheaper it will be? Don’t wait for flash sales or a coupon to arrive in the mail. The longer you wait to buy the dress, the more expensive alterations may be if you need it in a rush.

4. Skip the Open Bar and Do BYOB
Expecting guests to bring their own booze is a problem waiting to happen. If you’re not able to afford an open bar, consider doing an open bar for an hour or two and then switching to a cash bar.

5. Don’t Compare Your Wedding
The best thing you can do is compare what you want your wedding to be and look like to other weddings. You’ll get ideas of things you may never would have thought of on your own and you may change your mind about things after seeing other people do it first.

6. Randomize the Seating Assignments
It may sound like a good idea at first and it will save you a ton of time and hassle trying to figure out where everyone should sit, but on the wedding day, it might be quite awkward if your Aunt Sue is sitting next to your sorority party friends from college.

7. DIY as Much as You Can
You may think you’ll save a ton of cash DIY’ing your whole wedding, but you’ll start to notice that you’re spending a lot more time. You also may end up spending more than you think on crafts and it may just counteract paying someone to help do your decorations for you.