The Top 3 Things I Learned From My Wedding

If you are reading this a newly engaged, congratulations! If you are reading for some daily entertainment, you have come to the right place haha!

I honestly couldn’t have asked for our wedding day to be any more perfect than it was and we have some truly amazing memories from the day. However, the days, weeks and months leading up to our day were quite trying. There were lost of tears and lost relationships but through it all we learned some things. Here are some of them:

1. Up Your Wedding Budget.

This is important. You’ll be floored when you hear the prices of ANYTHING wedding related.   When vendors asked “What’s the occasion?” I cringed and silently thought about not telling the truth because from the moment the word wedding gets introduced, I was doomed.

My advice? Set a budget very early on and be realistic with it. We paid for most of our own wedding so we had to set up a savings plan. This helped us set a realistic date (13 month engagement) and determined what we could and couldn’t do.

Don’t forget those little miscellaneous items that are not included in the budget as it adds up, and fast. Finally, try your utmost best not to go into debt for your wedding. It may be considered the best day of your life but it’s just one day. There is life after.

    2. You will lose people, but you will gain some too.

I, sadly, lost a few relationships while planning my wedding. Some of the people I thought would stand strong with me, did not shine through. This taught me some valuable lessons. People will disappoint you, and that’s alright. The ‘that’s alright’ part took some time to resonate with me. I struggled with losing those relationships but I soon realized that people change, they also have their lives to contend with and sometimes, people just aren’t as happy for you as you’d want or thought them to be. This is life. What can you do? Learn from it and move on.

3.  It can be tiring and frustrating but remember the true essence.

After the wedding, all the party and glass clinking, you go home with the one you love to start building a life together. This experience (good or bad) will surely bring you a new found closeness and appreciation of your partner and you’ll  be stupidly in love for the first couple days after the wedding. We headed straight to our honeymoon to relax the day after.

It’s a good feeling and once you keep in mind the TRUE reason behind the wedding, all is well.

With all this being said will I ever do this again? Absolutely NOT! haha. I enjoyed every second of our magical day, because I knew it would be a once in a life time moment and I intend to keep it that way!

I’d love to hear your wedding stories and experiences. Feel free to share!