One Month!

We have been married for one month.

On one hand, it’s hard to believe that time has passed so quickly. On the other, the wedding seems like it was ages ago already. It’s weird.

I’ve been getting a lot of the “So how’s married life?” question. It’s funny, because I’m never quite sure how to answer that one, aside from saying, “It’s good! Very good.” I try to come up with a more unique answer, but seriously… what do you say?

The truth is that married life–at least for us–is not much different than unmarried life. We already lived together for three years before we got married. With the wedding and the marriage, all we did was make it official.

The biggest change has just been my name. I’m still getting used to it. I honestly haven’t had to use it that much yet, so in a way, it hasn’t even hit me that I’m not Heather Oldlastname anymore. I always knew I’d change my name when I got married. I didn’t think it was a big deal. But I’ll admit to being a little bit sad on the day I was at Social Security and the DMV, “handing over” my old name for the new one. It is just an odd thing–I’ve spent almost 26 years of my life as Heather Oldlastname, and now I am not “her” anymore. I don’t regret changing it, though. I know I’ll adjust.

And I love saying “my husband” now. That’s a change, too.

We are still waiting (impatiently) for our pro pictures and our video. I thought for sure we would have both by Friday of last week, but apparently everyone is running a bit behind. Hurry it up already, I want to relive my wedding!

You hear people talking about “wedding withdrawal.” After spending so much time and effort planning the wedding, there are the people who are really sad when it’s over and don’t know what to do with themselves.

Yeah, umm… that’s not me. I have not really experienced any of that. There are times when I think I’d like to go back and relive the day over again. But that’s only because 1) It went by so fast, and 2) I had SO much fun.

On Friday night, we were at my mom’s house for a party. At one point, I did sneak away to go “visit” my dress. It’s still hanging on the back of the closet door in one of her spare bedrooms. I hadn’t seen it since the day after the wedding, so it was kind of funny. It is still completely filthy. I had a lot of second thoughts about my dress between the time I bought it and the wedding day, but now, I can’t imagine having worn anything else. On the wedding day, as soon as I put it on with everything else–made-up hair, professional makeup, my jewelry, the bouquet–it all really came together for me and I knew I had made the right decision.

We aren’t really “celebrating” tonight. I’m just going to make dinner at home.

So here I am, on the other side. And I gotta tell you… life is good.