How did you feel the day after your wedding?

I was exhausted. It didnt really sink in until after we got back from the HM.

Amazing! We were on such a "go go go" high for the day before and of our wedding. We did a mini-moon at our resort which was heavenly. My DH got sick before our wedding, partied like a pirate rock star on wedding day, and spent the 1st day of our honeymoon in bed. But we LOVED not doing anything...it was surreal to not work on wedding stuff. The last night we did dinner at our resort and revisited the ceremony/reception sites and got teary.

You'll get to relive the magic all over again when your pics arrive.

I was both elated and exhausted. we had a morning after brunch at MIL's house which was lovely but by the time it was over we were so ready to go home and chill out. once we got over our exhaustion the glow continued.

I'm not married yet, but I anticipate feeling relief. I'm ready for the planning to be over. (I actually joked with FH yesterday that I was ready for our wedding to be over because i just want to see our pics... thats how much we love our photographer!)

But I've always been that person that needs something to think about, something to plan and look forward to. The wedding has been overwhelming no doubt, but I think I'll feel relaxed and relieved once its over, then I'll get antsy to find our next adventure whether thats home projects or planning our next vaca or something.

Ours was a low key affair that was done by 3pm, we drove a few hours to a bed and breakfast, hubby napped in the car, lol.

The next day? Pretty chill, actually. We were (I was, truthfully) chatting about how well the day went and kept looking at my hubby's wedding ring. Hey - first time groom at 52.....about time someone got him to the alter, right?

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Same here as far as having something to plan! I'm guessing my next task will be settling in our house, but you make a good point so maybe I'll feel relived and find a new easy task to conquer where everyones opinion isn't inserted lol!

We leave for our honeymoon the day after on Sunday.. so I am sure the 16th will come and go.. but we will be on a week long Caribbean adventure... I do worry about the first day back though.. or after all the stuff is put away and gone trough.

The months after our DW and local reception we were THRILLED to not be planning or spending money on wedding stuff. "Movie night" out was like a breath of fresh air.

One year later...totally wish we could do it again! But we postponed an official honeymoon to Europe so now we have that to look forward to. And I want to do a photo session in Paris which will *kinda* be like celebrating our wedding some more.

If possible, cut out any unnecessary tasks on wedding day. And take a few minutes to pull your fiance(e) aside during your reception to soak in your celebration ("mental photos!").

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Love this advice, thank you!

To be honest, I felt like I had a terrible hangover even though I didn't drink a lot.... It was because I was so excited and wound up that I could barely sleep at all. We fell asleep at probably 2 AM and woke up around 7 (neither of us can sleep in).

We were in the honeymoon suite at our venue the night of the wedding and it was amazing ! When we got to the room I took off my really heavy dress and we had some leftover food and then showered and went in the jacuzzi in the room... it was one of the ones that had a separate spot for each person (not very honeymoon suite friendly lol). We tried the champagne that was in the room but it was too dry for me. When we got out, we opened our cards and then went downstairs to get water bottles from the front desk, then we finally went to bed.

When we got home the next day I started bawling my eyes out over how extremely tired I was. I don't even know what triggered it-- I know my FIL and SIL dropped something off to us and it happened then (I felt like a big brat that it happened in front of them). We went to a nice restaurant that night and at that point we were both a little more refreshed and were back to being super happy, like we were for the next few weeks. We definitely had the newlywed high for a while, but it started to fade when we wanted to TTC and I became ridiculously hormonal!

Sorry for writing a book, but it was a lot of emotions You will likely feel super super tired and excited at once.

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That is what I'm looking the most forward to! Not that I don't love when people ask how wedding planning is going, but I can't wait to go back to our normal life (normal, like, not thinking about a wedding 24/7!) and I'm mostly excited to not have peoples noses in our business all of the time!

We got married this past Saturday and it still feels surreal. The day after the wedding we had to check out from our venue at 11am, so it was a mad rush to get everything cleaned up, pack our bags, and make sure everyone else was ready to go to. We had about 30 people that stayed with us at our venue, so it was a little hectic. We both got a little teary eyed and emotional leaving the house.
We spent the next two days sleeping and trying to unpack at home. We had talked about staying somewhere else after the wedding, but we both just wanted to be home. We stayed at our venue with the 30 friends from Thurs-Sun, and felt like we had had enough fun lol.
We both keep calling each other wife and husband, and keeping looking at our rings. We don't feel any different, but it's nice to not think about wedding stuff anymore.

I was super happy the day after, I did not miss planing but I missed looking at things, and talking to people about it - especially here - that's why I am sticking around. I miss talking to people living the same things I was living, and I still try to give advice because I hope people don't make the little mistakes I made.

I love being married. It doesn't change things but it does at the same time. I hope you get to feel that feeling - it is hard to explain but awesome to feel

We were both exhausted and sore lol. But I think I was kind of in disbelief that we were actually married and that the wedding had happened and was over. Don't get me wrong, I'm very happy to be done with the planning and pretty much back to normal life.

We were just overwhelmed with grateful feelings from seeing all of our family and friends there to celebrate/support us. Also exhausted and slightly hungover haha. I got the wedding blues a bit when I got back from our HM and didn't have anything to plan for.

We were both exhausted. We invited my husband's cousin and his wife over for lunch since they were stuck at someone's house near us with no car. We had tons of food leftover from our catered dinner we threw the night before the wedding and it was nice getting to spend some one on one time with them as they live in Florida and we're in NY. The following day, we both went to work.

I've been married for almost 11 months and frankly, it feels no different from living together, which we did for 5 1/2 years before getting married. No complaints though, since living together has been fantastic and better than I anticipated. I lived alone for a little more than 30 years before moving in with my husband and I had anxiety attacks for 2 months before moving in since I loved living alone (I do miss it to be honest). Maybe it's because we're older than most newly married couples (I'm 57 and my husband is 61) but it just doesn't feel any different, which is fine with me. We weren't any less committed when we were living together.

I really love hearing all these perspectives! Thanks guys, these are really helpful to read

The day after our wedding we ate wedding cake for breakfast in bed. And then were lazy bums all day.

I was so happy to be married! We stayed at our own house and didn’t go on a honeymoon so it was nice to sleep in and just be relaxed. The wedding itself went off without a hitch and we had a blast so we just told stories and went over his best man’s house later in the day to hang out and hear their stories too! It’s funny because I was so stressed out with planning and my husband was getting on my nerves the whole two weeks leading up to the wedding—‘it for anything in particular, just me being generally crabby was the problem. On the day after the wedding and even now, weeks later, I haven’t been annoyed with him in the LEAST and I’m back to being my chill self. I couldn’t be happier.

I am married now for 12 days, I have to be honest with you, I am kind of sad? I feel like the night just came and went so fast and I tried to soak it all in but it just went so ... fast...