It’s summer, and love is in the air. Are you engaged and planning to be married within the next year or so? Planning a wedding can be an exhilarating, yet stressful experience. Keeping a wedding journal through the wedding planning process can help keep your stress levels down and give you a written record of how you felt on the months, weeks, and days leading up to your big day!
Here are a few journal ideas for keeping a wedding journal:
1. Use a journal to help you plan your wedding.
Instead of just keeping a wedding binder to stay organized, why don’t you put together something resembling a hybrid of a wedding binder and journal? For example, you can use this tactic to reflect on why you might like one venue option over the other while attaching pictures from both of the venues. This will help you stay organized while you’re in the wedding planning process, and it might give you some clarity so you can make those hard decisions.
2. Do a couples’ journal with your fiancé on the week leading up to the wedding.
This would be a great keepsake for you and your husband/wife to have years into your marriage. Use this journal to reflect on what this marriage means to you. Write about when you knew your fiancé(e) was “the one.” Describe the first time you met each other and how things have changed or stayed the same. Make sure you both write an entry on the actual wedding day, and have the groomsmen or bridesmaids get it to and from the both of you if you don’t want to see each other before the ceremony.
3. Anticipate the next 10 years with your fiancé(e).
A couple days before the hustle and bustle of your wedding day take a few minutes to sit down and write a journal entry with your fiancé(e) about where/how/who you want to be in 10 years. First, write about where you see yourselves as a married couple in a decade. Do you want to travel? Have children? Move to another city? After you discuss and write about yourselves as a couple, discuss with each other where you hope to be as an individual in 10 years. Do you hope you’ve been promoted or have become a better cook? Discussing these ideas will get your mind ready for the transition that’s about to take place. After you’re done writing your thoughts down, take the document and seal it with the intent to open it on your 10th anniversary.
Did you keep a wedding journal? Do you have any other journal ideas for anyone who’s planning a wedding or about to be married? Share it with us in the comments!
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