My wedding was the worst day of my life
msn.commarriage to the next morning, and fell asleep. As she lay next to her new husband, Laura burst into tears. “I wasn’t expecting to have sex that night, but I was expecting to feel happy,” she says. “Part of the problem was that we had 180 people at the wedding, most of whom I hadn’t seen in 18 months.
Before I walked down the aisle, I almost had a breakdown at the thought of everyone seeing me in this huge dress when I hadn’t spoken to them in so long. ”The reception was also far more stressful than she expected. “Every time I had a conversation with a friend, I found myself glancing over their shoulder to make sure everything was going smoothly and at no point relaxed into this day I thought would be perfect,” she says. “Getting into our hotel room and realising I hadn’t really enjoyed any of it made me feel like such a failure. ”It is often said that expectation is the enemy of happiness – if that’s the case then it’s a wonder anyone enjoys getting married.
We’re slowly changing the narrative around long-term monogamy and parenthood, and understand that anxiety and depression can sit alongside love when it comes to life’s major milestones.
And yet on a wedding day, we leave very little space for anything other than blissful happiness. Hence the word “perfect” cropping up so much: the perfect day, the perfect dress, the perfect hair and the perfect first dance.
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