Get some perspective

The most important first step in dealing with post-wedding day blues is to distinguish your wedding for what it really was: a celebration of your marriage. No matter how perfect your day was, you need to remember that it was merely a marker of something far more important and exciting that is still to come. Stop thinking of your wedding as the climax of all your plans and view it instead as the beginning. Get rid of the bridal magazines and wedding paraphernalia and concentrate on being a newlywed, which will bring with it its own excitement.

Take off the rose tinted specs

It is easy after some time has passed since your nuptials to reflect on the time of wedding planning as a period of sheer unadulterated joy. You remember the excitement, the attention, the gifts and the shopping, and forget about the stress, dieting, expense and lack of sleep. Rather than peering nostalgically back on that period of your life with longing, it is time to take off the rose tinted specs and remember the things you will be glad to leave behind. Make a celebratory list of all the things you can do now that you couldn’t do as a bride-to-be (eating chocolate cake whenever you feel like it or spending your money on something more exciting than table decorations, for example) and reflect on this whenever you start to feel a little blue.

Relive it

If you’re not ready to let go of the excitement of your big day just yet, take a night to relive it and be the centre of attention again. You’ve got the wedding DVD, the photos and the honeymoon anecdotes – now you just need an audience. So get out the invites or make those calls and get your friends round for an evening of reminiscing. Get out the wedding dress again if you have to; it’s your night!

Keep busy

It’s important to remember that your case of post-wedding blues won’t last. Right now you are experiencing a massive comedown, but you will not feel this way forever (or, most likely, even six months from now). Instead of dwelling on your feelings and what’s been, have your few weeks of reminiscing, then try to get on with your new life as best as you can. Although you may not feel like it right now, getting back in to the swing of things and keeping busy with life and its many distractions is one of the quickest ways to send those blues packing.

Up the romance

Your engagement was supremely romantic, your wedding was the stuff of dreams, your honeymoon was just magical, and now… well, now the romance is over, right? Wrong. Just because the honeymoon is over doesn’t mean the romance need be! Lift your spirits by reminding yourself why you got married in the first place and take some time to appreciate what you have. You may not have the abundance of time you had on your honeymoon together, but regular small gestures will still keep the romance alive. Arrange a regular date night, plan some small surprises for each other, or just spend some evenings reconnecting – talking about something other than weddings for a change!

Make a plan

Once the honeymoon is over and you are back to work, you may feel as though you have nothing left to look forward to. If this is the case, the easy solution is to plan something new – preferably including your partner. Married life, particularly at this stage, shouldn’t be boring, so make the most of it and plan something exciting to do as a couple. Decorate your new home, throw a dinner party, book a second honeymoon, or even plan to start a family. Replace those glossy wedding magazines with some brochures or paint charts and start counting down the days to something new.

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