Weddingbee Blog

As we patiently wait for our wedding photos, I thought I’d give a little run-down of what happened in the week after our wedding.

The Mr and I both had the week after the wedding off, and nowhere to go. As much as it would have been fabulous to jet off to a tropical island right after the wedding, it was nice to have time to decompress and relax in our own home. Although we did manage to keep ourselves busier than we thought we would be! Mr CB was off out of town to work exactly a week after our wedding, so there was some stuff that we decided to try and get done while we were still together.

On the Monday after the wedding, we returned the keys to the venue (with some bottles of wine in thanks), returned the keg cooler, paid the caterer the last half of our payment, delivered a spare pie to Mr CB’s work, and bought out our registry. Yup, we took all the gift cards we’d received (we opened stuff on the Sunday) and headed straight to the Bay. The sales associates’ eyes lit up as we started piling things on the counter! “Six of these, 4 more of those, where’s that blender?” We also went out to dinner with my mum one last time before everyone left.

On Tuesday we did a lot of loads of dishes to get our new swag clean. Then we emptied every cabinet in our kitchen to figure out what was going and what was staying. We packed up all our old stuff into the boxes the new stuff came in and piled the boxes up to wait for Cinnamon Buns’ parents to come pick up for a family they know. We also pulled some stuff out of storage room for donation, then reorganized the storage room.

On Wednesday we went to EQ3 and ended up buying a sofa. In the afternoon I was hit with some of the worst allergies I’d had in a while, and spent the rest of the day napping.

After that, that week is a bit of a haze of anti-allergy medication for me, but it seemed like we spent a lot of time running errands. Not to mention the piles of wedding stuff that were everywhere in our house! Busy (and hazy) as it was though, it was so nice to spend some quality time with Cinnamon Buns without thinking “We should be assembling wedding things! Where’s the to do list?!” We were free to nap when we wanted, which I did (a lot. I blame it on the meds). Cinnamon Buns would join me sometimes, and read in bed while I napped. We’d wake up, then eat some of the last wedding pie. We stalked the interwebs for guest photos of the wedding together. We did laundry! We let it sink in that we were really—for reals—married now. We called each other “husband” and “wife” a lot too.

It wasn’t a glamorous post-wedding week, and it ended with me driving stuff out to where Cinnamon Buns was going to be working for the next 8 weeks, but it was us time, and that’s what we really needed.

How did/are you spending the week after your wedding? Honeymoon? Homeymoon?