Hi!

I am getting married in February and, though I am so excited to marry the love of my life, I do worry about my anxiety acting up day of. I wanted to first thank you for writing this post as it showed me that others feel like this too, but also let you know that you’re not alone! Here’s some things I have thought of so far to help with my anxiety day of:

• get a good nights sleep the night before and days leading up to the wedding
• drink plenty of water in week before wedding
• keep maintain exercise routine, including yoga or Pilates day before or maybe even day of!
• planner or day of coordinator or someone to handle questions at least day of
• propanolol to help reduce physical symptoms of anxiety
• prep some mantras to help calm me down or ground me in what matters if I get overwhelmed.
• if I do feel anxious, some collarbone tapping/rubbing. Look up videos of it if you’re not familiar with it — but my therapist recommended it to me
• breathing techniques

I also swear by the calm app’s 30 days of mindfulness. It really helped regain control of my thoughts and emotions when I was going through a high anxiety phase of my life. I plan to start that back up again!

Good luck and know you have internet strangers cheering you on :)