I GOT MARRIED, SOLD MY HOUSE, QUIT MY JOB, AND MOVED ABROAD WITH 3 WEEKS

In the Weeks AFTER Getting Married, Newlywed Bliss Can Come With A Side of Relief for Some and Post-Wedding Blues for Others.

Or so i Hear.

I Manage to Avoid All Processing of Post-Wedding Emotions by Immediately Uproing My Whole Life AFTERWARD. Within Three Weeks of My Wedding, I SOLD MY HOUSE, QUIT MY JOB, AND MAVED TO FROM FROM OUR HOME IN THE UK.

While I often Imagined Being Engaged and Planning My Wedding Wed I Was Younger, I Never Expect to Be Juggling It With SO MANY of Life’s Other Biggest (and Most Stressful) Events.

But my now-husband and i never fell out or argued throughout it all, which has to be a good sign.

I planned the wedding far in advance

We were engaged for just under 18 months and didn’t hire a wedding planner I love design, organization, and hosting.

Unurrprisisingly, i took the lead on wedding planning, but my husband Certainly didn’t put his fies up, nor he took charge of ours admin. We’ve Moved for HIS JOB, AFTER ALL.

AFTER DECIDING WHERE AND WHENE WE WE WANT TO HAVE OUR WEDDING, WE BOOKED ALL OUR SUPPLIERS WELL IN ADVANCE – WE’D PICKED A JUNE SATURDAY, ONE OF THE MOS POPULING DAYS, SO WAS NO TIME TO WAIT. I was so excited that i want to get on with it too.

There is a bit of a lull between chooking suppliers and making choices like menu and music, but i tried to do much as posseible in advance, ticking off the Little Things Like toiletries for Our Restroom Boxes.

Fortunately, I really felt stressed about the wedding planning; It was more Everything Else Going on Around, How Much there was to do, and the fact that it was stealing my mental capacity away from wedding planning.

But on the flip side, realized that swimming able to focus solely on the wedding was a good thing, as it is meant i couludn’t become completely consumed by it.

We Couldn’t Control The House Sale Timeline

Initially, I didn’t want to sell our house Because of didn’t want the Added Layer of Stress to take away from enjayment of wedding planning, but once we realized renting didn’t make -up (and we weren’t wedded to returning to the house or area), I Rectantly ACCPTED that we were should sell.

Trying to align the House Sale with the Move Date while Fitting in Our Wedding was Incredibly Complicated. Of Course, we had no idea how it wants it to get an offfer omit house was on the market or how the sale wul to go ishrough.

When the house we’d lineed up to move in france fell through a month before the wedding, i is couldn’t it. Fortunately, my husband happy to be in france at the time, so he was able to dash to the south coast as I frantically tried to set up House Viewings while on a Friend’s Bachelorette Weekend in the UK.

I had to acccept that there are some things we are Simply Couldn’t Control, and althouda we ended up Having to moving out of the house sooner the wedding than we’d like, it was manageable.

I had to prioritize

Moving to France Meant Leaving My Full-Time Role at Business Insider, so it felt like the right time to launch my freelance caareer.

Ideally, have like to have tears of meeting with editors and contacs before moving, but i had to accept that there is Simply was for much with every going on, and that was ok.

I was mentally at capacity, so i had to prioritize and acccept that some things couuit unil aftward – and the latest netflix series isn’t going anywhere. IT’S AMAZING How Much More You Can Get Done in a Week If You Cut Down from Two Episodes of A Series Each Night to One.

While I took some time off work to get married, i kept my jab as long as postible. On my final day, I started the drive to france immediately after closing my laptop.

For a while, we felt like we just need to get throughe. Once we were married, HAD SOLD The House, and Had SuccessFully Settled in France, we thought we could finally breathe.

It hasn’t exactly gone like that, as the culture shock has been greater than expert. But ultimately, all of these huge things we’ve squeezed into a short space of time have been good, excitation Things, so will really Lucky.

It turns out that decompressing in the sunshine of Southern France with a Glass of Rosé and Some Fred BREAD is a great way to relax.