Wedding Burnout
You care a lot about planning an awesome wedding! This shows how excited you are for this special period in your life.
But there is simply too much to do and you’re feeling some wedding burnout! The sheer number of tasks is wearing you down, and this makes sense because there really is a lot to do! You might feel like this often in your life, even outside of wedding planning, which means you care deeply about things.
Going a little deeper:
Being engaged can also be a stressor. This is a major life transition that requires navigating new roles, shifting family dynamics, and preparing yourself for a lifelong relationship, all of which make this wedding planning thing even harder! These stressors are likely operating under the surface, and you might be focusing on wedding planning to avoid confronting these deeper and more difficult issues.
The good news is that there are things you can do right now to manage these stressors so that you can enjoy your engagement journey and your wedding day.
Recommendations for You:
Dedicate time to improving your stress management, and implement emotion regulation tools. As you enter this new phase in your life, it is critical to invest in your emotional wellbeing. You’ve probably felt burnout in other areas of your life, so you can use this unique time to change this pattern and enter marriage with new and improved skills for resilience.
Carve out time for self-care! Pick up a daily mindfulness practice, move your body regularly, and load up on face masks and bath bombs!
Use this time as an opportunity for self-reflection and growth. It is easy to get caught up in the details and logistics of wedding planning and avoid confronting more uncomfortable feelings about the process, like fear of commitment, anger with a parent, or resentment towards our in-laws. But it’s essential to take the time and space to feel those feelings, explore where they are coming from, and enter marriage with self-awareness and own your feelings, boundaries, and decisions!
Work with us! We have many options for personalized programs, from individual counseling to our Community Program, all of which provide stress management and emotion regulation tools. Read about our services here!
Tools for You:
The Intentional Nearlywed Relationship workshop: Communicating your emotions & Needs to your fiancé
In this short and sweet digital mini-course, you’ll learn how to communicate your emotional needs and make requests of your fiancé with confidence and clarity. In the time it takes to watch an episode of Bridgerton, you’ll learn how to have hard, easy-to-avoid relationship conversations, be heard by your fiance, get what you need from your relationship, become your own best advocate, and increase emotional intimacy with your soon-to-be spouse.
The Mindful Nearlywed | An Emotional Resilience Guide + Workbook
The Mindful Nearlywed is a free 20-page resource that will guide you through four common struggles during the engagement journey, with actionable journal prompts for self-reflection and emotional resiliency.
The Mindful Nearlywed explores:
Common myths about getting engaged and planning a wedding
Confusing emotions that arise during the engagement and wedding process
Why family members are having a difficult time or acting out
How wedding planning can strengthen your relationship with your partner
How family boundaries realign during this period