Not a problem... But how do you contain your excitement for so long?

theunbreakablevow

This is a weird question in that I don't actually have a problem... My only question is how did all you brides deal with such a LONG time of excitement? We booked the venue a couple months ago, I bought my dress, we have our Dj and photographer, and now we are looking at all these amazing places for our honeymoon... and yet we still have just a little bit less than a year to go. I just want the time to speed by, but I also hate the idea of wanting to rush my life and rush our engagement. With so much time, how do I keep myself focused? I even finished moving us in to our new apartment today, so we have the experience of living together for the first time finally and I should be happy with that... but I just want all these plans to come to fruition after watching all of these amazing videos and showcases from our vendors that pump me up so much. I love him, I love how everything is coming together, and I feel like waiting a (almost) whole year is going to be torture, lol. I know other people felt this excitement and anxiousness and I just need to know how to deal with all this time of anticipation or else I'm going to drag him to the courthouse. 

6fsn

I had a demanding job and many happy life events for other people.

MNNEBride

It's normal to not want to wait for the big party/wedding.  However, life happens in the mean time and after the party is over.  What will you focus on after the wedding?  If you are in a good place with planning now, start a hobby, volunteer, join a gym, whatever, Just do other activities that aren't focused on the wedding because in a year from now, that will be over.  

We were engaged for 18 months and it seemed like it would be forever.  But it didn't because, in addition to planning the wedding, we were planning for my FI to move to my city where I had a demanding job, then my job was gone, I job hunted and ended up moving to my FI's town/my hometown, temping and then getting married.  

DixieNormous330

I had a short engagement.

Heffalump

What 6 said.  Plus I was in business school and traveling for work, so wedding planning was kind of a side project for me.  It was never really the focus of my life, especially since DH and I were already living together, had a house, etc. 

mrsconn23

Yep, DH was in school, we both worked full time (and he started a new job right before we got married and I switched work departments), the kiddo started kindergarten a couple months before we got married...we had a lot of daily life crap going on that I pretty much only had the weekends to really work on wedding stuff.  I got my 'excitement' out by talking to my sister a lot on the phone about wedding stuff.  She was damn near my planner because she's a highly organized perfectionist. 

dharmabunny

I was in grad school hell. Like, how the hell do I get out of THIS and move on with my life.

Wedding planning was a welcome escape for small snippets of time.

lacqueredlover

My FI and I have about 11 months until our wedding.  We are just enjoying everything else in our lives too!  We are enjoying spending time with our families, waiting on a new niece/nephew, celebrating other friends weddings, etc.

Just enjoy it!  This is the only time  you will (hopefully) be engaged so enjoy the feeling of being not quite a wife!