Grief and wedding planning

Dealing with grief while planning your wedding.

[@diannaanderson]

Well addressed! Especially the information that when someone dies, a part of ourselves dies with them - especially if they were part of our happiness and general support system.

[@maryloupatten7096]

This was a wonderful video. I really like your channel and the down to earth approach you have to so many things.

[@Friendsofafeather]

Losing someone you care for is extremely difficult. I have lost a lot of family members and I find myself thinking about them and wishing they where still here so I can tell them how much they mean to me.

[@brinirose7302]

This was an incredibly articulate way to explain the effects of grief, particularly the "losing a part of yourself - the part with this person, and the time after." Thank you for making this video, I hope it reaches all the people who need it 💜

[@cynthiaoconnor7185]

So glad you all said you never get over it. My mom, dad and granddaughter died/were killed from 2001 to 2004 and I still grieve for them. It's problematic because you'll be having a good day then, WHAM!! You're hit by a wave of sadness.

[@user-ny3lf9bi2x]

You have done a wonderful job of helping and explaining grief and how it affects people. The closer one is to someone who dies, the deeper, stronger, longer grief will fill your life. No matter how long ago, the hole left in your life only gets less painful, and smaller, it never goes away. Each new loss brings back all the other losses of your loved ones. Someone said that loss is like having a part amputated, you eventually learn to function without it, but you feel it's loss. Even so, after years and life is good, something comes along, a song, a picture, etc., and for a moment or two you feel like you have been hit by a wiffle bat, it hurts like crazy but doesn't last long. Best advice, listen when they want or need to talk! Share good memories or what you appreciated about them. ❤😊

[@rickraber1249]

I once heard someone say that it will never be the same, but it will, at some point, be okay. (This is Mrs. Rick.) My baby sister died at 6 mos. of age when I was 11. And it hurt so bad. We all coped as best we could. Then one day, over 40 years later, I was by myself in the kitchen when I suddenly thought of her, and a sob just ripped out of me. Here's the thing - I'd only seen her alive one time, through the porthole in the incubator, from a distance of about 30 feet, in the hospital, because she lived her whole life there. I'd never gotten to touch her or hold her, and yet I loved her - still do - and that grief came out of left field again and just hit me. Grief is like that. But it will become manageable, and you will heal.

[@JaneCurtis-vk7fq]

I never thought of a part will always be with the person who grieve…..I know that family will never truly get over a loss but a friend….no 💔. Thank you!

[@42ayla]

There are religions where once the date is set it's set whatever the crisis. I can't imagine going through with something like a wedding while grieving.

[@jessicathomas3273]

This was a great video. My dad died 3 months before my wedding date and my best friends mom (also a huge part of my life) passed away 3 days before the date. I wanted to move the date but everyone kept telling me it was too late to change so we went ahead with it. I had a beautiful wedding but because i had to make rushed changes and decisions while I was grieving and I gave in on certain things i still look back on parts of it and get angry. I should have postponed like i wanted.

[@jonimerchant5954]

I think this would be one of the roughest issues in the wedding business. Hard to balance the human side with the business side. At least here in USA , a contract over rides the tragedy. The pandemic taught so many businesses and people this lesson.

[@haramanggapuja]

Indeed. Some businesses learned from that. Some didn’t. Those that didn’t learn - providing they were not part of the corporate oligarchy - might have survived. Many didn’t.