Yoga: One Bride’s Key to Wedding Stress Relief

One bride-to-be is using yoga to stress less while planning for her destination wedding. Bonus: Killer triceps and a slimmer physique.

For Lauren, the bride-to-be blogger behind Salt Says, her destination dream wedding is right around the corner. On February 27, 2010, in the beautiful Turks and Caicos Islands, Lauren will say “I do” to fiance Mike. It’s not easy planning a destination wedding, but through yoga Lauren has stayed calm and developed a more toned body. “I can’t say enough about how yoga has kept me sane,” she says, “not just in wedding planning, but in life in general.”

Read on for more about Lauren’s destination wedding planning journey and the key role yoga has played.

The Engagement

It was February 3 of this year. I was on the couch helping my youngest brother with his homework—in sweatpants with my hair messy—I had just got home from the gym. My little brothers were staying at our house for the night, and Mike had gone to pick up his nephew and had taken my other brother with him. When they returned, my brother ran into the house saying I had dropped something in the parking lot. I immediately got up to go check because I’ve done that before, but then my brother took a ring box out of his pocket. He said he found it on the ground next to my car.

It took a few moments, but suddenly the realization that it was my ring box—my wedding ring box—dawned on me, and I started to cry. Then, surrounded by my brothers and Mike’s nephew, Mike asked me to marry him.

I said yes.

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