I am in the process of writing a series of articles about wedding nerves and anxiety. You can find them at http://www.fearcourse.com/articles-and-notes.html. We have just completed six months of research looking at wedding nerves from the perspectives of:
- The bride
- The groom
- The best-man
- The father of the bride, and
- The mothers’.
The obvious omission are the bridesmaids. I realised this and we are about to rectify this omission to the research.
However the less obvious omission and one that I certainly hadn’t considered are the personal close friends of the bride (frequently) and those of the groom (less frequently).
I was talking to a group of people yesterday and we got onto the subject of wedding nerves. One of the group told us about a wedding she went to of one of her close friends and how she found the lead up to the wedding so terrifying that she decided not to attend. She subsequently reversed this decision on the eve of the wedding and went but suffered from a series of panic attacks the night before and was at times rigid with fear during the day. Today I did a bit of searching and found quite a few reports of wedding nerves and anxieties with the friends of the bride and less frequently, but still quite prevelent with the friends of the groom.
I have to say I was surprised at this finding, but I have subsequently turned up quite a lot of data on this particular phenomenon.
So why do friends suffer from wedding nerves? In my next blog all will be revealed.
Tags: best man, bride, father of the bride, groom, wedding anxiety, wedding fear, wedding nerves
