When does it become real?

maggyruth · May 2010

I'm getting married on Saturday, and there's part of my brain that still isn't catching up. It's a bizarre feeling and I don't like it. Reality does hit at some point, right? Right?

lauralaur · May 2010

I don't think it hit me until we got back from the honeymoon. Our wedding day felt like any other day really, except we were all dressed up.

salt78 · May 2010

Like right when I met my dad at the top of the aisle and the music started playing.

Brie2010 · May 2010

Once I heard the music, it was kind of like "whoa" but I felt pretty normal the whole day. Just really, really happy.

stinkerbell6879 · May 2010

When I met my Dad outside the bridal room to go down the aisle.

pandasquishy · May 2010

In Response to <a href="http://forums.theknot.com/Sites/theknot/Pages/Main.aspx/wedding-boards_etiquette_become-real?plckFindPostKey=Cat:Wedding%20BoardsForum:9Discussion:3aa5f20f-b45d-4e34-b7b2-9a080ffd87c9Post:191484de-704c-44ba-98a6-e22c6aa32837">Re: When does it become real?</a>:
[QUOTE]I don't think it hit me until we got back from the honeymoon. Our wedding day felt like any other day really, except we were all dressed up.
Posted by lauralaur[/QUOTE]

<div>Same here. It didn't really hit me until a month after we married. I don't know if that's weird or not.</div>

bmd14 · May 2010

I've been married for a month and it still hasnt' hit me. lol.

arbolita · May 2010

When I was getting ready to walk down the aisle

missy68 · May 2010

I'm agreeing - standing outside the doors with my dad. And it was a happy feeling - a whoa, but happy feeling. I think it's because at that point, it's all done, and you're ready to go.

Well, wait - maybe seeing J sweating bullets, hand clenched, knowing he was scared being the center of attention and was willing to go through that for me.

lizstill13 · May 2010

When my dad showed up in his tux and I was in my dress. He asked me if I was ready to get married. He was really uninvolved the whole planning time (that's just the way he is), but him acknowledging it at that moment made it so real.

katiewhompus · May 2010

When my bm and bff turned to me and went "Dude, you're getting married today". That and when I met some of sil's friends who told me I made a beautiful wife, and had a smoking hot husband.

Although it really didn't sink in until I started with name change, consolidating finances, etc. The morning after was kind of a feeling like , you knew something really big just happened in your life, but nothing changed in your day to day so it didn't feel different.

NcsuPsych · May 2010

When my dad met me to walk down the aisle. .it kind of hit me.

Honestly though, last week it really hit me. I got all giddy and excited. I like this feeling

future-mrs · May 2010

Your stories gave me goosebumps...lol...makes me excited

Moneypenny424 · May 2010

When I woke up that morning, I sat up in bed and said, "Oh my God, I'm getting married today." Not an exclamation, definitely not a statement of fear, just reality. And then I got really excited

. It also started to hit me when my dad and I were hanging out before walking down the aisle.

ThePinkSuperhero · May 2010

Still waiting! I think this is why we wear rings, to remind ourselves!

katiewhompus · May 2010

I think too (Whit let me know if I'm wrong) it would be more of an impact if you didn't live together before. I mean, Dh and I had already lived together for almost 2 years when we got married, so not much changed. I could see if we didn't live together where all of the sudden you are around each other more and dealing with the little daily things.

maggyruth · May 2010

Well, considering the fact that FI and I have never even lived in the same STATE, I'm sure I'm in for quite a jolt...

brookelynpaisley · May 2010

For me it kicked in when I was in my suite and looked down and saw the guests starting to arrive, and then all of a sudden my bridesmaids came in. It took me until "go time" to realize it was all happening. Thinking of that moment still puts a lump in my throat when I think about how happy and lucky I realized I was to be surrounded by people I adore and about to marry a man I love to pieces.

cschuma2 · May 2010

I think it hit me twice... at the rehearsal when we practicing how we would be walking.

And then it hit me again after I changed my name and got a new driver's license. "Holy crap! That's my name now!"

s.dice · May 2010

I'm so glad other people feel this way!!! I'm getting married in 9 days, and it still hasn't hit me - but after reading these replys, I don't feel like there's something wrong w/ me anymore - lol! Thanks, ladies!

Oh - and one more thing - I def. think that it's going to hit when my Dad and I are walking down the aisle.

ks3pink · May 2010

Everyone saying it hit them when they saw their dad is making me cry! It hits me whenever we do something big, like when we bought our rings, when we started painting our housem when we bought furniture, when we booked the caterer. The big stuff really gets makes me go "wow this is real". I think when my BM dresses come in and I see the girls in them it will hit me then too. But we've been engaged for 3 years, its time it hit me lol.

Artnerd16 · May 2010

I'm getting the feeling it won't hit me until the honeymoon when it's just the two of us for a while. My family has huge baggage and doesn't get along so I'm having a hard time focusing on the fact that it's OUR day and not just stressing about how awful they're going to try and make the actual wedding day. Been wanting to elope a lot lately....month and half to go!

amycherven · May 2010

it hit me when i was waiting with my dad and my girls to walk down the aisle and they started playing the bridesmaid's song "somewhere over the rainbow" and everything was absolutely perfect and gorgeous (on the beach) and my MOH turned to me and she just had tears streaming down her face! i cried all through the ceremony! lol it was just so amazing and perfect and such a smack in the face! but then it didn't hit me again until almost 2 months later when my name was actually changed and people started calling me by my new last name

wadingmoose · May 2010

... 6 months after the wedding is when it hit me. I just had a "holy crap, I'm married!" moment last week.

amanda.loughlin · May 2010

When I sent out my wedding shower invitations...I was like wow this is really happening. I'm getting married in 4.5 months and I can't believe how much time has passed since we've been engaged...it's crazy!

Xtine22 · May 2010

I almost cried after reading all of these. I really dont know how I am going to cope with that day and not cry... (yes, I'm kinda a crier)??? I'm not married yet but after my first shower which was in April (kinda early but it was a work one and we work at a school so it was easier then having it in Sept) That night I was like WOW I really am getting married...

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