Post Wedding blues?

My wedding is this Saturday and I am stressing out lol.

My wedding is a little over a month away and I'm already sad because I've loved the planning process so much. I would start looking into other things that you can focus your energy on; planning a trip, some kind of party, remodel a room. We're lucky with our wedding timing that the holidays are quickly approaching, so that's a fun thing to keep yourself busy with.

Yes I think that’s normal. There is so much that goes into and it’s over so quickly. You will get back I. Hour routine and feel better in a week or so.

Daughter definitely experienced this. Getting back their pro photos helped. Shortly after that, they committed to finding new jobs and moving 1500 miles before their 6 mo anniversary, so that definitely distracted her and provided a new focus/project. Give it time! Bask in the glory while it's still so fresh. Look at pictures, talk about your favorite memories with H or close friends, and you'll likely be ready to move on soon enough!

Yes. It's a thing. I think if you can find new projects to plan or focus on it'd be nice

YES. I totally did. The week we got back from our honeymoon I was actually still in such a bliss-bubble lol, but then the week after that I started to get really down. I always used to scoff at “post wedding blues” but it’s REAL. It got to the point where I couldn’t even look at our wedding photos without getting sad. The best way I found to describe it was like an emotional sugar crash. You spend theoretically your whole life looking forward to your hypothetical wedding day, then you get engaged and spend SO much time planning for this ONE day, then you have the best day of your life, and then you’re just expected to accept that it’s OVER and go back to regular life? It is understandable and TOTALLY NORMAL to feel a little let down about that!

The best advice I can give is honestly, just be kind to yourself and really, let yourself be sad. Let yourself grieve that the wedding is over. Remember you’re allowed to feel that disappointment and that it’s okay that you do. I felt spoiled and like a bad wife and was beating myself up for feeling like this for several weeks. But once I realized how normal it was, I just accepted it and let myself feel it. Enjoy your time with your husband. Enjoy the lack of wedding stress and drama. Enjoy how much free time you have and how much more money you have now that doesn’t have to be spent on the wedding 😂 Plan a trip or some fun outings. Distract yourself and you’ll eventually settle back into post-wedding life.

Remember it is normal to feel sad, and that it WILL pass. I started slowly improving about a month after the wedding, and by 2 or 3 months it was pretty much over. You got this!!!

It's been two weeks and I am back at work today. I haven't felt the blues yet but I'm waiting for it. A few things I am doing to keep busy is throwing myself into my work. I have been so distracted by wedding planning I haven't really kept up. I am also going to try to be better at keeping up with friends, we have had the excuse for a year that we are wedding planning so we can't hang out on the weekends. We saw everyone for the wedding so now we are reaching out to have dinner/drinks and actually spend some quality time. With the holidays coming up I am also kept busy decorating our home, planning for Thanksgiving/Christmas with both our families, and planning for my husband's 25th birthday in January. I also can't wait to get our pro pictures back, I hope they will make me happy and not sad that it is all over. I can't wait to share them with everyone and put together our thank you cards and our first Christmas card.