西部落：如何愉快地度好蜜月?（在线收听）

We have seen the bridezillas who lose it, planning for their over-the-top weddings. As nuptials get bigger, even more lavish, it seems a letdown after the big celebration is getting bigger as well. For one in ten new spouses, the letdown after the ceremony is so severe it develops into what is known as post-wedding depression. Are we creating a generation of brides who cannot recover from their wedding day?

It's a dream of many little girls that someday her prince will come.

Is the bill here?

Yeah…

But the war of wedding planning can drive some brides to the extreme.

OK, can we get going?

And the search for wedding perfection can push others over the edge, transforming them into bridezillas, like the over-the-top TV show.

That's not funny!

Some are stressed, some are serene, but the pressure to create that flawless day can be daunting.

Planning a wedding and getting married is both the best time and also the most stressful and, and, and in many ways the worst time as well.

Marnie Hinze got married three months ago inside a Comte Cape chord church with over a hundred guests. As the sound of bagpipes escorted her down the aisle, it was a picture-perfect ceremony. After the wedding, Marnie and her new husband, Mark, flew off for their long-awaited fantasy trip to the Caribbean.

That the honeymoon was fabulous, and really relaxing and fun and perfect, just like the wedding.

But once the honeymoon was over, Marnie emotionally crashed.

I felt bad because it was over, and now real life was starting and I had to think about kids and buying a house and all of the major things that come after. One gets married and that was kind of scary.

Marnie fell into a post-wedding depression, a condition afflicting one in ten new spouses. After spending a year or more focusing on one day, the letdown, once that day is over, can lead to confusion, frustration and for some, clinical depression.

I mean I didn't really understand why she felt that way. (See you later..) You know, it bothered me cause I thought it was something wrong that I was causing her to be differently sad or depressed.

Everybody's telling you, "You should be having fun... this is the best time in your life, you know, before you have kids, enjoy it, live it up". And l felt like what's wrong with me that I feel like this.

1.nuptials:n. marriage ceremony, wedding

2.serene:adj. tranquil, calm, peaceful, quiet; supreme, royal; clear, cloudless 宁静的, 安详的, 沉著的

3.bagpipe:n. wind instrument 风笛

4.clinical depression:a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention