Post wedding blues?

I've been married 7 months almost now and I still have the blues. It was so much fun and went by so fast I wish I could do it over and over again. We went on a small honeymoon in May and that helped but I still miss all the planning and spreadsheets and favor making and....I miss it all!

@centerpiece....greatest words ever. @Colleen...I feel how you do. I'm a teacher and got married during the school year (during the crazy). I signed on for EVERY summer work opportunity and am tutoring. My first day of summer is Friday and I'm terrified of not having something to do because I know I'll be lonely. I got a Michael's coupon in the mail the other day (ohhhh a all those DIY wedding projects). I'm going to go get a craft or project to do and maybe sign up for an art class or something. Move forward and grow is right!

I was the opposite. The day before the wedding when I finished decorating the reception room and realized that all I had to do was go to the dress rehearsal that night and relax and get up, get dressed and get married? I cried......TEARS OF JOY!!! I was so fricken happy that all the planning, all the work was over!!! I had my life back! I could take some time and read a book, work in the yard, shop for pleasure. Do anything where "wedding" was looming around it. Do nothing but enjoy my husband. It's been 8 months and I only just did my first craft sense the wedding...spray painting a stool! I still haven't set foot in a Micheals or Hobby Lobby! I settled quickly and happily in "moving forward".

Well said Centerpiece, we'll said.

This is me! I need to find a project or something to keep me occupied. Problem for me mostly is DH and I are trying to pay down some lingering debt so all our extra money is tied up in that. It will be short lived but leaves us hanging out at home bored a lot...

Good reality check centerpiece. We all need the reminder sometimes

Centerpiece, you are absolutely brilliant!

I posted something similar to this after my wedding at the end of April. Since then, I've had hip surgery (planned), my father had surgery (also planned, but we were not told about the plans until the day *after* the wedding) and ultimately, he subsequently passed away after the surgery :'-( ... What I wouldn't give for a little 'wedding planning bliss' or even just to be able look at my pictures without tearing up. Or seeing video of us dancing together and seeing me laughing, knowing now that just a month later we'd lose him...

Treasure your here and now ladies and gentlemen... Take it from me, you never know when it's all going to change forever. That green dress is fabulous; those silly "i cant believe x happened when it should have been y" will just be anecdotes you dont even remember in the grand scheme of things... Focus on living in the moment and not on the shoulda's and coulda's- enjoy married life! Enjoy daily ins and outs and sunsets and long dinners and weekends away and cozy cuddles and all the other newlywedded things! Find a groupon getaway and go! Go antiquing! Go museum hopping! Take a day trip! A cooking class! Anything :-) just be present in the here and now, not in the one day that happened. The wedding was the first day of the rest of your lives together, not the ONLY day of your lives together. :-)

OMG YES. It'll be three weeks tomorrow since the wedding. It started to hit me the week after and I'm just maybe coming around. We didn't take a honeymoon, we just took Monday off from work and that was it. It was really anti climactic. We both already lived together, we were done having kids before we even got married... it just didn't feel like starting a new chapter or anything like that. It felt like a very nice, big but unnecessary party and then... nothing. I was sad over my choice of dress (like hubby came home from work to find me drinking wine and sobbing while looking at the DB website), how my hair looked, and probably more than anything the fact I would never be a bride again. It was stressful planning the wedding, but also fun and exciting. I miss it. I know this feeling will fade with time and hopefully so will any of my regrets about how the day went. I've heard it said that the bigger the event, the more of a crash afterward. In hindsight I wish we had just eloped on the beach! Good luck to you, I'm sure your day was awesome. Just remember that it's life... there's ALWAYS something else to look forward to! Seriously. Plan a fab end of summer or Halloween party. Plan another vacay, even if it's just a weekend.

I feel the same way! Like back to reality. But I'd suggest maybe revisiting a hobby or something when you have down time. I'm personally diving back into my small jewelry business an preparing for a new baby and our five year old to go to kindergarten, so needless to say I have to let go of the wedding blues

I just read the post above me... I'm sorry for your loss, MrsW! That's rough. Probably the most legit post- wedding blues ever. But def words of wisdom there. I know looking at the pics probably hurts right now, but at least he was there for your wedding day and that is special- even if it is bittersweet. *virtual hug*

Well the good new is you had a fabulous wedding and it all went well! Try not to be down. Look at all the positives and how it was so special you did get to see everyone at once. I understand how you can have the post wedding blue though. My mom asked me a few weeks back what I'm going to do when the wedding is all over since that's all we talk about lol.

I did for a bit, but since I had a major burn the day of the wedding I did a lot of picture editing and watching say yes because I had to take it easy to heal, and I was desperate for any distraction from the pain I could find.

So I had a lot of wedding stuff to do that helped ease the post wedding let down. It wasn't too long after the burn healed I had costumes to do, 2 were bridal, then I had to househunt.

I agree with others suggestions that a project is a good idea, but if your mind is still in wedding zone, make it one related to your wedding. Maybe video montage of pictures