New- Intro

bekt14

Hello! I just got married this past Saturday (Oct. 4th)

I've been a lurker on the Nest for the past few weeks as I've been transitioning into married life. Now I can finally join in!

DH moved in with me a few weeks before the wedding, so now we're trying how to fit all our stuff into my small apartment. I'm in the middle of thank you notes, name changes, etc. It's pretty stressful! Any advice for merging our two lives? 

DH is in Human Resources, and I'm in Finance & Data Analysis. We live in Texas. DH is 23 and I'm 25. We will be TTA and living child-free for probably 3-5 years until we might start TTC. 

DH and I both have a lot of hobbies we're involved in separately, which have been on hold during engagement. I'm excited to get back into those things. I love sewing/crafting and DH loves sports/video games. We also want to find married couples to be friends with and volunteering opportunities. We are new in our city, so we don't know very many people or have any friends. So, hopefully we can meet new friends soon!

mrsb53

Congrats! I just got married October 5. I am excited to officially begin life as a married couple. There is already a big to-do list including opening gifts, writing thank-yous, changing my name everywhere, and then going to doctor appointments and handling household issues that we pushed off due to so much wedding planning!

bekt14

Congrats to you as well! ALMOST wedding date twin!

How has your first week been??? I feel as busy as I was while wedding planning! 

We are having a huge garage sale this weekend and last night we worked on getting me on DH's health insurance. Next week I'm tackling the name change. 

I was expecting to feel bored after the wedding, but I'm definitely still feeling the stress- although the marriage itself is great so far!

krisclint05

We just got married Oct 5th and we just got back from our honeymoon in Jamaica yesterday. Today we went through our wedding cards and gifts and we are getting ready to write thank you cards. All the money we got from the wedding we opened a joint savings account today which was exciting! I am going to start the name changing process soon! I already changed it on facebook but that doesn't count lol. We both go back to work tomorrow hopefully its not too painful. We are excited to start our lives together as a married couple. We are planning to buy a house once we are settled with fiances in a couple years and have babies in a couple of years!!! 

mrsb53

@bekt14 Thank you! I replied to this thread before we started talking on the Knot, and I am actually mrsb53 over there. I guess the name change didn't transfer over to the Nest! 

I am waiting on getting the marriage license back before I start the name change process, but hopefully I can get on that soon! It is my goal to have everything in my new name by 2015!

@krisclint05 How did you like Jamaica? My DH and I recently got back from our honeymoon there, and we loved it! The weather was perfect, and it was so relaxing.

On a thread over on TK, I proposed starting a Facebook group for all of us newlyweds. Would you guys be interested in joining? I don't know if I should make it October 2014 specific, or TK specific, or just newlyweds in general.

chrisnjay05212010

welcome and congrats to all your newlyweds!!!! 

krisclint05

@rachelsea53 we had a great time in Jamaica we stayed in montego bay at a resort called Secrets St. James!!

theholmanherd

Congrats, newlyweds! The first year is so exciting. My best advice is to give each other a lot of grace. You're learning things about each other you may not have known before (if you didn't live together) and learning to live as one.

FWIW, I also went to Jamaica for my honeymoon. I loved it!

bekt14

I think a facebook group would be fun! We're all going through the same things right now!

This week I got on hubby's health insurance. I'm saving SO MUCH MONEY getting off mine and joining his! Yay for marriage benefits! 

I'm so nervous about the name-change process. It seems really stressful and complicated. I'm waiting until we get our marriage certificate back and then I'll start the whole process. 

I think I'm getting carpel-tunnel syndrome from all these thank you notes!

chrisnjay05212010

@bekt14- the name changing process wasn't stressful, its more of an annoyance.  I found the bank and the social security office to be the biggest pain.   The credit cards were so easy, it was just a phone call.  My car loan and student loans were just a letter with a copy of my marriage license.  If i remember correctly, i was able to print the forms for social security and fill them out before i got there.  The DMV was ok, just a pain to get there and then wait (depending on how it works in your state)