"I definitely think that the things that I didn't expect to be stressfulbecame the most stressful," Michele told Jennifer Spector, Zola's Director of Brand, at an event that INSIDER attended at the online wedding planning service's New York City pop-up store on Wednesday. "I was like, 'Oh, it will be a breeze to place people attheir tables,' and then six poster boards torn in half later ... it's just not easy."
The actress later said that another "really tough part" of the process has been trying to decide if children should be in attendance.
"We have some invited and we're trying to not go too heavy into the kid department, but it is sort of hard," Michele said.
She added: "It actually is kind of stressful, especially when you get married. I'm going to be 33. Zandy's 36. So a lot of our friends are already on their second kids and some third. So you have to take that into consideration when you are getting married. At this point in our lives, people have families."
Michele and Reich, who is the president of the clothing brand AYR, actually met after being seated next to each other at a wedding.
The actress and singer explained that she and Reich have mutual friends, so they continued to see each other at events and later started dating.
At the Zola event, the actress said that after accepting Reich's proposal, she made a Zola account and started planning out her wedding, from creating the ideal gift registry to signing up for "Cheese of the Month" and "Wine of the Month" clubs. Her official partnership with Zola came after she ran into Spector at a party and "bee-lined across the room" to introduce herself.
"I honestly didn't know a lot about this process," Michele explained of her decision to partner with Zola. "I've been working the majority of my life. I've missed out on a lot of monumental moments that I feel like other girls have experienced. So when it came to being engaged and a soon-to-be bride, I just felt like I didn't have that group of sorority sisters or a sister to kind of be like, 'OK, I did this, and now I'm going to give you the blueprint.'"
She added: "I was just looking for the best, easy routes to help make this a great experience."
