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Anyone Going Through Wedding Withdrawal?
Now that spring (and wedding season) is here, and our first anniversaries are approaching, is anyone else going through wedding withdrawal? Don't get me wrong - I love being married, and while I was going through the planning it was stressful, but I loved being a bride and bride-to-be! I'm ashamed to admit that I'm kind of missing the attention. Anyone else feeling a little nostalgic for the wedding stuff?
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Re: Anyone Going Through Wedding Withdrawal?
I have quite a few friends that are brides to be at the moment, and honestly I wouldn't have it any other way. We only attended 2 other weddings last year and they were both family weddings, where we were only invited to the weddings and had no other obligations. So, I got plenty of attention
One of my closest friends got engaged in January. It has been really frustrating watching her try to wedding plan. She gets super frazzled. Most of her wedding related stress is because her fiance is paying for the whole wedding, but she is having a really hard time staying within his budget.I totally get the budget thing, however she has champagne dreams. Oh, on top of this she wanted to buy her bridesmaids their dresses. We're trying to convince her that it is not a necessity, but who knows what she'll decide to do.
I LOVED most of the wedding planning process and can't relate to her stress at all.
We went to 6 weddings last year (out of about 9-10 we were invited to) not including our own, and I'm kind of wedding burnt out. I enjoyed the planning, but it was also . a very busy time, because I was transitioning from working to going back to school. I guess I'm also preoccupied with grad school (trying to get as many credits in as possible) and the LO on the way.
I do have several friends getting married this year but not gonna lie, I'm glad that we aren't close enough friends that we got invited to any of them!! It's not that I wouldn't want to attend, it's more that since I am working an internship this summer where I will be working every weekend (as an academic advisor at a college, so freshman orientations every summer weekend!) it's hard to explain to people why I have to work every weekend all summer.
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Before the wedding, I definitely thought I was going to miss it. Since the wedding, I haven't thought much about the planning at all. I enjoyed that time in my life, but I really haven't thought about it much this past year.
I missed it a little right after the wedding but not too much now. We went into house hunting in Sept so that took a lot of time and now we are in our new house. I am super busy with work so spend my free time on that.
The first month or two after the wedding I was really sad that it was all over-the month or so before the wedding was the absolute best time of my life.
But...I got over it and now I'm happy that this spring/summer isn't going to be as crazy. Last year we had 5 weddings not including our own, plus bachelorette parties, showers, etc., it was just so busy. This year we only have two weddings that I know of so far.
And I am just loving married life and settling into our home with DH, being married is better than I ever imagined!
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NO!! I do not miss the stress of planning,but I miss the fun stuff like picking dresses and favors and flowers... I am glad I am on the other side! my best friend is getting married in a month- so i still get to be around weddings, and she calls when she's stressing.
I just said yesterday to somebody that I miss wedding planning, but I would like to do it for not myself... So I can do the fun stuff, but not have the crazy stress! haha
I kind of miss it, but I am in 2 weddings plus attending a 3rd this summer, so a lot of wedding things are still going on around me. Looking back, I did enjoy all the planning, but it was a stressful time for me since I was also graduating that semester. I agree that I kind of miss the fun stuff like picking out dresses and flowers. I miss my wedding dress!