Wedding Etiquette

10 Things You Should Know About the First Year of Marriage

It won't all be cake and flowers, but it can be the best year of your life together so far.

10 Things You Should Know About the First Year of Marriage: You'll feel as if you are forgetting something all the time.
2. You'll feel as if you are forgetting something all the time.
Just a few weeks ago, roughly 70 percent of your brain space was dedicated to wedding-related details and minutiae. With no seating chart to arrange or bridesmaids to wrangle, many new brides feel a little lost, and some may even suffer a touch of post-party depression. The good news? Now you get to plan your life together, and that, you'll learn, is actually the most fun of all.
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Jenna McCarthy is the author of If It Was Easy They'd Call the Whole Damn Thing a Honeymoon: Living with and Loving the TV-Addicted, Sex-Obsessed, Not-So-Handy Man You Married (Berkley Books)
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