Weddingbee Blog

Well, hello there hive! It’s hard to believe that it’s been more than two months since King Hippo and I tied the knot. For real… where did the time go??!? We’re still patiently waiting for our pro pics, and rumor has it that we should have them in the next couple of weeks (hooray!), which means the Hippo recaps are just around the corner. I can’t wait to relive every minute of our wedding day with y’all!

So… what’s been happening in the Hippo household since we got hitched? Well… a lot. For one, I just feel a little bit different. It’s weird, and I can’t really explain it, but there is something about being married that feels… well… different. King Hippo and I dated for four years and lived together for three, so it wasn’t like after the wedding we had a lot of adjusting to do. I figured things would be the same, just with some more rings on our fingers and new names to call each other. But… it’s different. It feels like nothing has changed, but at the same time… everything has.

Before the wedding, I would work ridiculous hours and often be at the office late at night or on the weekends, and while it was annoying, it didn’t bother me all that much.

But for some reason, after the wedding, it. is. unbearable. All I want to do is go home and spend time with my husband. (I still love saying “husband,” by the way!) The work projects that seemed uber-important before, somehow feel less so. Don’t get me wrong, I am still a super hard worker, but I guess my perspective has changed a little bit. It’s a job, and only one sliver of my life. My husband and my personal life… a much bigger and more important slice of my life pie. I think a lot of people have this figured out way before getting married. It seems to have taken me a bit longer.

Since the wedding, King Hippo and I have spent a lot of time thinking about our future—where we want to live, what we want to do with our lives, what’s important to us—and we’ve made some big decisions. The biggest? We’ve decided to move back to Dallas!!! While we’ve loved living in New York City, we’ve ultimately decided we are ready to go back “home” and settle into a less hectic (and less freakin’ expensive!) lifestyle. Not only that, but our wedding weekend made me realize just how important having a support system is. My girlfriends are amazing, and they pulled out all the stops for us in the months and days leading up to our wedding day. Being surrounded by so much support and love made me realize how lucky I am to have such a close-knit group of friends. I know that not everyone has that, and frankly, we don’t have it in New York. We have made a handful of friends since we’ve been here, but it’s just not the same. My Dallas girls are… well… my girls! I love them, and their husbands, and their children. And life is just too short to not be surrounded by people you love and who love you. And so it is decided. We’ll be packing it up at the end of June and making the trek west… as soon as we get a car, that is.

Married bees… did you getting hitched make you feel different? Did you make any big life changes shortly after getting married?