I lost my bride gene

SingLoveDance

I've been engaged for about 4 months and we are planning a wedding for August of next year. I'm cannot wait to be married to my fiance...but the process of planning a wedding is not what I thought it would be. I have always been very interested in weddings and the creativity surrounding them, but I have very quickly lost all interest.

I'm not excited at all anymore about the actual wedding (completely unrelated to marriage). I don't like any of the ideas I had before about flowers, invites, dress, etc.

My fiance tells me it's from the stress of a new job and the finances associated with the wedding and that it will pass.

Has anyone else gone through anything like this? Any advice?

Cant_wait!

You don't HAVE to have a wedding if you don't want one. You can always elope.

~~Busy.~~

Elope or hire a wedding planner.

BriDeZEEluh

I know what you mean. I felt pretty overwhelmed when I first started planning. I was all excited buying wedding magazines and getting a jump start on crafts and then I got burnt out because I wasn't taking care of any of the really important things. I took a couple month break and now I'm back at it. I still feel a little overwhelmed and having trouble sitting myself down to just DO IT but I think after I get a few of the really big parts out of the way it'll start to feel better.

uhhlanna

I felt like this too! I consider myself really creative and I hvae always been so excited for my friends' weddings... but mine, not so much. I think I was trying not to get too emotionally involved, since we were on a tight budget and I didn't want to get carried away. I've been hesitant about all my ideas since the beginning--the ceremony is in 9 days and I'm still not in love with our decor or flowers or anything. I think it's perfectly okay to not be excited about your wedding details--it's only one day. As long as you're excited about marriage, you're fine... I'm looking forward to our wedding day and I know it's going to be beautiful, but that doesn't mean our stationery or our reception are perfect... because they're totally not. You'll be fine!

SingLoveDance

Thank you all so much. You've been so helpful.

Have a great wedding uhhlanna!!!

LizziebeeUT

I thought I was going to want to go crazy with planning, but now everything I think about I look in terms of if there's a way to save money on it lol

Its actually my fiance that wants nicer stuff. I love it all too, but I would be perfectly happy if he wanted to just fly off somewhere and elope lol.