Secret's to HAPPY EVER AFTER

It was just two weeks after we touched down from honeymoon that I realised in the midst of choosing flowers, trying on dresses and finding a venue, I hadn’t prepared for actually being married. I was dragging my husband around a potential new neighbourhood (there was a wedmin-shaped hole in my life that needed filling with a move to the country), pointing out family-friendly parks, when he turned and said, “Are we even having children?” In the whirlwind of wedding planning, the serious talks had fallen by the wayside. A few better-late-than-never heart-to-hearts later and we reached the one-year milestone, minus a house in the country and the kids, but just as happy as when we said, “I do”.

I’m not the first to suffer from blinkered bride syndrome. It’s all too easy to get swept up in planning