In yesterday's post about my elevator pitch, I wrote how I wanted "to help women deal with the transition of past excitement associated with planning a wedding to the sometimes let down of “reality” AKA post-wedding". With this in mind, today's list post:
5 Steps to Move Past "Wedding Mode"
1. Complete your thank you cards ASAP. Within 5 weeks of our wedding, all of our thank you cards were in the mail. Chances are your guests are still talking about how amazing your wedding was. By receiving your thank you card so quickly, it's just adds to the awesome-ness of your wedding.
2. Place your order for your parents wedding pictures as fast as you can say "Hook me up Mr/Mrs Photographer!". I failed in this category. Although we had our pictures in our hands 3 weeks after the wedding, it took me 3 months to place my order for my photobook. By the time I got my photobook back, we were all over the buzz of our wedding day. This should be the last of the "wedding" stuff to do. If not, GET ER' DONE!
3. Buy a house! One day short of our 6 month anniversary, my Rockstar and I will close on our sparkly new house. New countdown, new "things" to spend money on, and a CRAZY amount of money spent. Not much different than a wedding but much more practical :)
4. Join an online community. One community I'm associated with is Frugal Board Living. Most of the women on this Canadian Message Board have been there/done that with weddings. These women are strong individuals and being at different stages in life provide great advice and wisdom for those who seek it.
5. Find a new set of websites to check out and bring them into your daily rotation. By eliminating wedding eye candy, you slowly "forget" and move on. As they say, "out of sight, out of mind". Such non-wedding websites I enjoy include:
How about you? Anything you started to do to move past "wedding mode" that you care to share?
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8 comments:
Alison.
I love this. I feel like I am already over weddings though....bad thing? No, just balanced. Here is another blog by my pal Ruth to keep you interested in non-wedding stuff:
www.ruviews.com
Enjoy and congrats again on the house and all he new services :)
L
thanks BB!! I will be sure to check our your friend's blog.
As for being over weddings, that's not a bad thing at all
Thanks for the warm fuzzies!!
Hey there. Cute blog! I found you through the 31BBB posts over at Problogger, and I really like what you're doing already. Keep it up!
I was working on Day #3's assignment from Darren and I was intrigued by your list post title (though my husband & I had a courthouse wedding two years ago)...your blog color/style/title is cute...good luck and congrats on your new marriage :)
I also found you througn 31BBB. Love the idea behind your blog. Well done.
ah, couldn't agree more! I got married a year and a half and while we're putting the husband through school and me through school instead of buying a house -- all of the other tips are so important!
Found you through 31BBB (though I'm very much behind!)
Thanks everyone from 31BBB! Your support is much appreciated. Glad to hear the feedback from you.
Love this blog!! What a fabulous idea...
My transition from "wedding land" was to blog about everything I learned while planning our wedding...we were the first of my friends to get married, so now I've got my thoughts logged for all my friends to use!!
I agree that getting all the post wedding stuff done asap is best! We got our thank yous done four weeks after the wedding because we were both heading back to a semester of grad school and moving a few states away from where we grew up -- one less thing to worry about!
Now it's so much fun going to weddings and knowing one more couple is crossing the threshold from wedding to marriage!
Becky
http://wintheweddinggame.wordpress.com
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