Your Wedding day is not the Happiest Day of your Life

Jun 8

Jun 8 Your Wedding day is not the Happiest Day of your Life

Advise, Wedding, Relationships, Dress, Marriage

You know how people say, "Your wedding day is the happiest day of your life"? They are wrong. They are also wrong about it being the most important day of your life, but that's another post.

Your wedding day is not the happiest day of your life! My mum told me this, in not so many words- in 22 words actually.

She said,"Focus more on your marriage than the wedding, which is just one day. Your marriage, on the other hand, is for years."

When she said that, I thought, "Well, mum, OK... I will do everything you have just said...right after I get my bouquet of perfectly formed blush-pink peonies, my get-Cinderella-green-with-envy shoes, the cake of my dreams and my two veils!" (I know, who gets two veils!)

Every time I got seemingly carried away and distressed by my wedding planning, she would repeat herself, using some variation of the statement.

Then things started to go awry.

I never got those peonies and that got me very upset, also one of my veils never got delivered! The delivery company claimed that it was actually delivered and someone accepted it and signed for it. Clearly, it was delivered to the wrong address. It's beyond me why anyone would want to willingly accept a wedding veil and not return it, when they discovered it was a mistake!

Why was this happening to me?! *insert bride-static melodrama* I was paying a lot of attention to this wedding plans but it was still going wrong. What then would happen to my marriage plans, which I was paying like 21% of my attention to?!

I soon realized a wedding is really 1 day in over 30,000 days to be spent with this same, sexy person.

That's what mum was trying to say, in other words.

In other, other words, what she was trying to say was, prepare yourself for marriage, build your spirituality, improve your temperament, practice forgiveness, develop the habit of flushing away grudges, guard your lips and pray for your home, even before you walk down the aisle. In essence, pave the path for increasing happiness in your marriage.

Your wedding day is not the happiest day of your life, every other day is and it gets happier with each sunrise! Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. Also don't let them tell you that you should enjoy your wedding day because it only goes south from there. Arch your brow (and your back and any other thing that can be arched) and ask them,"What do you know?"

Do you know anyone going crazy with her wedding plans? Please share with her (or him...yes, indeed, groomzillas exist).

What are your thoughts? Did you have any disappointments with your wedding planning? Do people say it only gets worse after the wedding to you? Bah, lies.