Wedding five weeks after due date?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know, none of my business. But I can’t stop thinking about this and I just want to anonymously discuss.

My friend is currently pregnant, getting married just four weeks after her due date. It’s a typical wedding, too, at a typical venue with dancing and everything else you’d expect. I can’t stop thinking that if she has to have a c-section, or runs late, she is going to be in rough shape at this wedding. Can you imagine being 3-4 weeks PP and doing this, let alone 4 weeks post-abdominal surgery?

Yikes. I'm assuming this is her first child? Because she clearly has no idea what is in store... You never fully realize until you have the baby. It's a huge shock. Maybe she will luck out and be one of those women who seem to recover more quickly (that was NOT me, that's for sure!).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know, none of my business. But I can’t stop thinking about this and I just want to anonymously discuss.

My friend is currently pregnant, getting married just four weeks after her due date. It’s a typical wedding, too, at a typical venue with dancing and everything else you’d expect. I can’t stop thinking that if she has to have a c-section, or runs late, she is going to be in rough shape at this wedding. Can you imagine being 3-4 weeks PP and doing this, let alone 4 weeks post-abdominal surgery?

Yikes. I'm assuming this is her first child? Because she clearly has no idea what is in store... You never fully realize until you have the baby. It's a huge shock. Maybe she will luck out and be one of those women who seem to recover more quickly (that was NOT me, that's for sure!).

Also adding the deep-in-your-bones extreme exhaustion/lack of sleep when having a newborn, on top of recovery from childbirth.

[Anonymous]

Yeah that's insane but it's not your place to say anything.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know, none of my business. But I can’t stop thinking about this and I just want to anonymously discuss.

My friend is currently pregnant, getting married just four weeks after her due date. It’s a typical wedding, too, at a typical venue with dancing and everything else you’d expect. I can’t stop thinking that if she has to have a c-section, or runs late, she is going to be in rough shape at this wedding. Can you imagine being 3-4 weeks PP and doing this, let alone 4 weeks post-abdominal surgery?

Not your problem

[Anonymous]

I lost the weight pretty well and slept okay but I about had a breakdown having to get dressed up for my children’s baptisms at 6 weeks. I felt so fat I wanted to cry and nothing looked good on me. I absolutely would have been a runaway bride if that were my wedding. Why not just do a courthouse wedding now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow, what kind of friend makes a post to talk about another friend behind their back?

I mean, lots of people. It’s anonymous. Don’t act holier than thou.

I have quite literally never made a post to talk about a friend behind their back. I've never even made a post talking poorly about a friend.

[Anonymous]

She will be insanely sleep deprived at four weeks out, assuming the baby comes on the due date and putting aside other factors like potential C-section recovery, etc.

Was this wedding already planned, and therefore she feels like she will lose too much money if she tries to reschedule? Otherwise I like the PP suggestion of a quick ceremony at Townhall or some kind of elopement, and then a big party later on. I would do a party when the baby is about six months old. And I would plan to have a babysitter keep the baby at home after the ceremony.

[Anonymous]

I have a friend who walked down the aisle VERY pregnant - like maybe 7 months along. At the time, I thought to myself that it was ridiculous to have a wedding at that point.

However, they do sell wedding dresses for those who are very pregnant. So, I just went along with it and kept my thoughts to myself.

It's twelve years later and every time I see her I think of her wedding, her very pregnant self, and how crazy it was to have a wedding at that point. It still sits with me.

[Anonymous]

Little matters -- except, get married already!

[Anonymous]

So I'm in my early 30s and know several couples who have gotten pregnant while engaged / are about to get engaged. I feel like they're all not trying but not preventing, which I kind of get at this point given all the fertility issues arising. All of either gotten married at the courthouse or pushed their wedding 1-2 years. Some got legally married before.