I had every intention of making this blog post the very first thing I did once we returned from wedding/honeymooning and got back to real life.  Instead, I (sort of) cleaned up my kitchen, started sorting through excess reception stuff and today I did five loads of laundry.  I’ve e-mailed clients to let them know that I am back for work.  I’ve set up a lunch date/meeting with Wendy to start putting together what could be the greatest project in the history of the universe.  I’ve (we’ve) purchased a new vacuum cleaner.  I’ve started writing this blog post at least a dozen times in my brain.  But you know what? I’m not sure if I’m ready yet.

For all of my “oh my god I just want to be married and have this whole event be done!” crying/wailing/meltdowning that I did before the wedding now that I actually am married and life is supposed to be getting back to “normal” I don’t know if I’m ready yet.  I definitely have post-big!-exciting!-and!-stressful!-but!-turned!-out!-great!-activity let down.  I’ve been dragging my feet on putting things away and cleaning up the kitchen.  The dozen roses that sat on the table next to the cake at the reception (I think that’s where they sat, everything is kind of a blur) have all wilted (thankfully, a couple of them “died pretty” so I’ll be saving them) but I can’t bring myself to take them out of the vase and throw them away…though this is partly because Will and I are hoping we can still salvage a couple of clippings from them.  My dining room table looks like it was decorated by Tim Burton…and a packrat.

The truth is that it was perfect.  Everything went swimmingly.  No drama.  No bickering.  No tantrums.  The only regret I have is that I didn’t have time to really talk with and take pictures with everyone at the reception (but, thanks to photoshop, later on we can make it look like I did!).

The play by play account will show up in the next couple of days.  For now I’m still in blissful newlywed, not ready to get down to real life, limbo.  In the meantime:

The Newlyweds!