Five Mindfulness Practices For Your Wedding Day.

Let's talk mindfulness.

As a newly married Mrs. Rodgers, I have decided to share my everyday navigation of bettering my mental health. As someone living with PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder), an anxiety disorder, and manic depressive disorder, I needed to find practical ways to cope with wedding day stress.

The five most useful mindfulness practices I used on my wedding day.

1. Have an area to breathe decided.

Having a space for your new partner and yourself to breathe will help create moments for you to soak in and process all the excitement you are experiencing.

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2. Be Verbal With Your Gratitude.

Let your words of gratitude ground you. There are so many personal components to a wedding. Try and find an equal amount of things to discuss for each sense (see, hear, smell, taste, and feel). Take the time to remember those moments.

3. Delegate Tasks.

Let them handle it! I would highly recommend getting a close friend, parent or relative to be responsible for any last minute details for the day before, and the day of your wedding. Have the important things ready for the day before and then let go of the reins. Now it is time to relax and get rested!

I was very fortunate to have both my partner's parents, and my parents there to take care of all of the details. remember that you can't control everything that happens, but you control what you give your focus to.

4. Mingle On Your Time.

As soon as I finished my plate I went from table to table to mingle with our guests. I found it helpful to be in control of the conversation by going to them. It is also a great way to make sure everyone is spoken too for an equal amount of time.

If you can manage it, dessert offers you an opportunity to sit and breathe.

5. Activities.

We made our guests playing cards to take home and found it an excellent option for our guests who didn't want to leave it all on the dance floor. We also had yard Yahtzee, checkers, and twister outside for our guests to play. Having games to play kept our guests occupied and took the pressure off us.

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By using these five realistic mindfulness practices on my wedding day, it was a blissful, and stress free day for Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers. Wishing you and yours a lifetime of happiness on this exciting journey!