When I started this blog, my intention was to keep a record of everything leading up to the wedding and I am pretty happy with the way that it has turned out so far. My last post was about the day before the wedding, so it would be natural to assume that the next post would be the wedding, right? I have started it, but I haven’t been able to finish that post yet. Yesterday, I finally figured out a couple reasons why. Jason came up with a name for what we think the main reason is: “Postpartum Wedding Depression.” We both realize that postpartum refers to the period following childbirth, but we think it is fitting for the way I am feeling.
Everyone said that it would happen, but I didn’t believe them…I wouldn’t be depressed after the wedding, I’ll just be happy to be married and starting a new chapter in our lives. Well, turns out, they were totally right! It’s not that I am disappointed in how anything with the wedding turned out, because that could not be further from the truth…it was the most perfect day of my life and everything went exactly how I wanted it to (I promise to write in more detail about it in the next post.) It is more that I spent so much time planning it and put so much into it that I am just plain sad that I don’t get to plan it anymore. I am sad that it is over. I suppose that is a better sign than being happy that it’s over, right?!?!
Another reason I haven’t finished the wedding day post for the blog is that I still don’t have our professional pictures back yet. Now, this is not one that I am sad about…I am MAD about this one! I loved our photographer and the engagement photos that he took of us were amazing, but I have been super disappointed by the process to get our wedding pictures. Pictures are VERY important to me, so a lot of time, effort, and thought went into choosing a photographer.
After we had met with a few different photographers, we narrowed our choices down to two. There were pro/con lists made for each of the photographers and they were pretty equal with one another. Each of them had a couple areas where they won over the other photographer. But the one that we ultimately chose had one big selling point for me. Because pictures are so important to me, coupled with the fact that I am not the most patient person in the world, the fact that our photographer said that we would have our photos within 10 days of the wedding sealed the deal for me! Within 10 days of the wedding? That means that I would be able to see my pictures on or before December 8th? Sold!!! Please notice the date of this post…yep, January 14th! I’ll do the counting for you so you don’t have to…it has been 47 days since we got married and we still don’t have the pictures! MAD!!!
I was patient until December 11th, which yes, I know is only three days after the date I was expecting the pictures. I sent Preston an e-mail to see what the hold up was. He replied the same day, but I didn’t get it because I had set up my e-mail to have people reply to my new e-mail address with my new last name, but had forgotten about that, so I didn’t get the e-mail he sent me. I spent the weekend freaking out that something had happened to the pictures and that we were never going to see them. On Tuesday, we went over to the Fogelberg’s for Jack’s birthday and Jason’s mom and Aunt Kay both asked about the pictures. They had wanted to use some of the formal shots for their Christmas cards. This was the catalyst that I needed to pick up the phone and give Preston a call. When we talked, he told me that he did reply to my e-mail that evening and I realized that I was a crazy person for freaking out and forgetting that I had set up a new e-mail. He also explained that he was super behind on editing because one of his computers had crashed. I told him about Jason’s family wanting to use some of the formals for their Christmas cards and he said that he would edit those particular pictures and have them to me in a couple days but that the other pictures wouldn’t be done until the end of the month. A couple days was actually 5, but who’s counting? (Oh yeah, me!)
I waited “patiently” through the rest of the month, complaining to anybody that would listen to me and slowly turning into that girl that checks her e-mail every other minute to make sure that she didn’t miss any sort of notification that her pictures were ready. December 31st came and went…no pictures. January 1st came and went…no pictures. January 2nd came and went…you get the idea. Finally, on January 9th I sent another e-mail. I got a response that they are almost done and they would be uploaded on Wednesday, January 13th. I got a call from Preston in the afternoon at work telling me that the pictures were done, looked amazing, and were uploading to Pictage as we spoke. He said that he didn’t know how long the upload process took, but that I could probably expect them late on Wednesday or at the latest, early in the morning on Thursday.
As mentioned previously, I am not the most patient person in the world, so I checked my e-mail every 17 seconds and finally logged on to the Pictage site around 8:00 last night. A notification popped up that I needed to “release my event,” so I figured that I needed to do this in order for the wedding pics to populate. Guess what? I was wrong. All that this did was send out an e-mail notification that “The Photos Are Here!” to every person that signed in with their e-mail address to Pictage to view our engagement pictures. But…they aren’t. ANNOYING!!!
I am now thinking that we might get to view our professional pics sometime around our one-year anniversary…we’ll see!!!
So there it is…the explanation for where the blog post on the actual wedding day is. I will say that I cried like a baby last night over my sadness that the wedding is over and I actually feel a lot better after writing out the wedding picture story. So hopefully this means that I am coming out of my “Postpartum Wedding Depression” funk. Wedding day blog post coming soon…
***Update*** We finally received an e-mail notifying us the pictures were ready on Thursday, January 14th at 10:40pm...they look great, so a little bit of my madness has melted away!
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I felt the same way! Its is a bummer after all the fun has ended.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I pray that your photographer has a better turn around than mine... who got me our photos NINE MONTHS after the wedding. Even though he knew I was a wedding planner who could send him tons of referrals. WTF?
Anyways, I feel your pain! Hope you get them soon!
Jess