Post Wedding Blues?
This is an important, common and under-discussed feeling in your overall wedding experience. You have bridal showers, engagement parties, wedding showers, rehearsal dinners, the wedding day itself, post wedding day brunch a honeymoon and many hours spent planning, fretting, making large financial decisions, budgeting, etc. There is a very real life shift when your wedding is over. The gifts have been opened, thank you’s have been written and family and friends have moved their focus to the next wedding coming up. Suddenly, you will spend your money in different ways (if you ever want to spend money again!) You could find yourself in the “post wedding bliss” camp or the “post wedding blues” camp or even a little of both. Regardless, I do want to acknowledge there is a shift that happens after your wedding. And I want to tell you, you are not alone. Below are a few things you can do when you are feeling those very real blues:
Talk about your wedding. Talk a lot about it! Ask family and friends for their own stories. Each guest has a unique perspective from your wedding, it is fun to hear about it from different angles.
Look through your photos and video together. Make an evening out of it. Cry it out, laugh it out. Post and share if you want, or keep those special photos all to yourself.
Talk to your friends and family about what you are excited for in the coming season of life.
Slow down intentionally. Know that life will pick up again in another season, you can enjoy the slowness as it comes.
Be excited for someone else. Put energy into lifting up another person or couple!
Be very careful about what advice you give to others. Remember what it felt like to be given unwarranted advice during your planning experience. Remember that every wedding celebration is different.
If you are a HoneyHill couple, visit your tree! Know that this is a lasting symbol of your growing marriage. Imagine the tree in 50 years, imagine your marriage in 50 years. What will you be talking about then?
