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October 2024

6 Key Behaviours That Long Lasting Couples Exhibit on Their Wedding Day

By Audrie Soh

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Learn about the key behaviours couples with long lasting marriages demonstrate on their wedding day.

No matter how perfect or extravagant your wedding day was, the truth is, the success of your wedding bears no indication on how successful or long lasting your marriage is. It is often the small, unspoken behaviours that you and your partner habitually exhibit that define the strength of your bond and foretells the future of your marriage.

While there is no formula to a long lasting marriage, couples who tend to enjoy an enduring and happy marriage tend to display key actions that reflect love, respect, trust and understanding. These behaviours, when exhibited on a day where both you and your partner are overwhelmed by your surroundings, lay the groundwork for your marriage in the long run. Discover the six key behaviours that couples in long-lasting marriages often display on their wedding day.

1. Staying Connected

Couples that stay connected with one another despite the whirlwind of activities and attention on their wedding day tend to form unions that are likely to be long lasting. It could be simple as sharing a meaningful glance, holding hands, a quick kiss on the cheeks or lips or exchanging reassuring words.

Making a conscious effort to stay emotionally and physically connected to your partner on a day as important as the day you are committing yourselves to one another shows that you understand the importance of being present for one another and demonstrate the ability to prioritise and support each other even during the most hectic and emotional moments. This habit of connection will in turn become a cornerstone of your marriage, helping you navigate through the ups and downs of married life.

2. Spending time alone

Weddings can get overwhelming with family and friends greeting the happy couple, leaving them with no to little time to themselves on their big day. Couples who choose to take time to be alone with their partner amidst the hectic commotion tend to enjoy a long lasting marriage as they understand the importance of prioritising their relationship over that with their family and friends.

When you take a few quiet moments to be with your partner on your wedding day, you are reinforcing your connection and creating special memories that belong to only the two of you. This habit of prioritising each other amidst the hustle and bustle shows that you are more attuned to each other’s needs and the need to stay connected as partners despite everything else around you, and this in turn, will strengthen your relationship in the long run as you meander through the stresses of everyday life.

3. Navigating problems together

While no couple hopes to deal with family drama, missing vendors, bad weather, or any unexpected issues with their celebration, wedding hiccups do, unfortunately, happen. However, couples who navigates the problems that pop up on their wedding day are more likely to enjoy a long lasting marriage.

When you view and tackle any wedding hiccup as a shared responsibility instead of leaving one partner to deal with it, it shows that your relationship is built on a foundation of teamwork and emotional resilience. Your commitment to work and handle challenges as a team, instead of assigning blame or responsibility, will help you and your partner face and overcome future uncertainties and difficulties with the trust that both of you will act as a united front to move towards a resolution.

4. Showing kindness to their families and vendors

You can often tell how a person would treat you by the way he or she treats their loved ones and strangers, and couples who show kindness to their families and vendors, despite the circumstance, are more likely to build a loving and supportive partnership, which is an essential quality for a strong and enduring relationship.

How you treat someone foreshadows how you will treat your partner when life gets hard. So, when you treat your families with kindness, it indicates how much you value, respect and appreciate familial ties; and when you treat your vendors or service staff, people whom you’ve just met recently, with the same kindness, you understand that in spite of closeness, these people deserve your appreciation and acknowledgement as they work tirelessly to make your wedding a dream come true. This ability to show kindness, respect and appreciation regardless of how close you are to the person, will form a foundation of empathy and gratitude that’ll help make your marriage more resilient and enduring.

5. Continuously show love to each other

Weddings are understandably a day full of excitement, logistics and greetings with family and friends who’ve taken the time to come celebrate. But don’t forget the real reason why you’re there and who you’re really there for – your partner. Couples who make a conscious effort to express their love and affection for their partner despite the hectic schedule on their wedding day are more likely to enjoy a long lasting relationship because they understand the importance of prioritising each other in spite of their surroundings.

It doesn’t need to be a grand gesture – it can be something small like exchanging affectionate glances, gentle touches, or even small acts of kindness throughout the day, such as writing a love note to start the day, saying you love them, or making sure that their needs are taken care of throughout the day. Through these gestures of love, you are making an intentional effort to show love to your partner despite the busy day, and this habit of showing love will form the backbone of a strong and enduring marriage.

6. Staying present

On a day as important and as busy as your wedding day, it is easy to get swept up in the whirlwind of activities and emotions, and forget about what truly matters – staying present in the moment. By being fully engaged in the moment, you and your partner will be able to experience and savour the profound joy and love for one another, and the excitement of embarking on a new phase of life together on a day that’ll hold great meaning to both of you. It also creates an opportunity for you and your partner to create lifetime memories that you’ll treasure for the rest of your lives.

By consciously choosing to stay in the present and experience the emotions and going-ons of that moment, you and your partner are prioritising the importance of staying connected and engaged despite your surroundings, laying a strong foundation for your marriage.

Credits: Feature image from Lena and Yonglong’s Vibrant and Colourful Wedding at Artemis Grill & Sky Bar by Oddly Familiar Photography

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