You might think after the big day you will be free of to do lists and be done with juggling a bunch of wedding-related tasks… but, trust me, this is not the case. Welcome to the world of the newlywed…

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…and your new to do list! Imagine that, after two and a half years of wedding stuff, I still have some wedding stuff to do now that we are married. The Nest provides this list of newlywed to dos.

Here is my post-wedding to do list:

• Send announcements (Check!)
• Write and send thank you notes (Check!)
• Clean and store my dress (Check!)
• Create and order wedding photo album
• Pack up wedding stuff strewn about my apartment
• Sell some wedding stuff or donate it
• Upgrade my sterling silver ring for white gold (which was supposed to be done before the wedding…)

Some of the common things you should do as a newlywed, we were able to take care of earlier (like calling Calla Lily Dude’s tax preparer) or I don’t have to worry about (like changing my name, since I am keeping my own).

I am happy to get some things off the list and was able to do so rather quickly with some planning. For example, I had our DIY announcements printed at the same time as our invitations and thank you notes, so I just stuffed announcement envelopes when we were getting our invitations together. Our announcements went out in the mail the day after the wedding.

I also printed 2 sets of mailing labels to make sending thank you notes a breeze. I even took a stack of thank you notes and a print out from our registry on our honeymoon, since I knew I would be up earlier than my dear husband and would need to kill some time. I am happy to report that I got all of our thank you notes sent within 2 weeks of the wedding. I like to think of myself as a thank you note rock star because I have several friends who never sent out thank you notes and regret it to this day, years later.

As for the other to do items, I am currently working on creating our wedding album using Shutterfly.com, but stalled on packing away the wedding miscellany in our apartment or selling/donating it . I think I am attached to all the wedding clutter after being surrounded by it for the last two and a half years, so I am reluctant to see it go… but I know I can’t have boxes and stuff laying about forever!

I have ordered several new wedding rings, so look for a post about that…

I am settling into married life quite nicely, but I still have to take care of a few more wedding-related to dos, so the wedding adventure is not over just yet!