I'm Getting Married In A Week: The 3 Products I Trust To Get Me Wedding-Ready

It's hard to believe, but I'm getting married in one week. One week! We've spent over a year engaged, thinking and talking about this day, and it's finally here. The music, flowers, and colors have been decided, and my dress is hanging on my office door. It's all, in a word, overwhelming. 

If you haven't planned a wedding, I'm not here to scare you. But I will say that for my personality (I run the content team here at mindbodygreen, and I have no shame in admitting that I'm Type-A), the pressure to be perfect weighs heavy. I want this to be the best wedding our guests have ever been to, and I want to look the best I possibly can. After all, it's going to be a heavily photographed day with many eyeballs on me and my future husband (!!). 

Before diving into the products, I want to emphasize starting from a good foundation and prioritizing the basics. From the start, I knew I wanted to make tweaks to my lifestyle to make me a smidgen healthier day by day. The goal wasn't to look incredible (although, I'd take it); it was to feel incredible. 

High-quality sleep helps me get things done and remain levelheaded. And sometimes (always) over the last year, I've needed a little extra help achieving it.

So as part of tending to a solid foundation, sleep became my No. 1 priority. On the days I went to bed later, I pushed my wake-up time to allow eight hours.

And I recently shared my complete adoration and dedication to our sleep support+, but here's the TL;DR: I've taken it for 18 months, and I'm still totally obsessed.* On the days I forget, it shows in my sleep score (I'm a Fitbit-wearer).* I take two capsules every night around 8 p.m. so I have plenty of time to wind down, which is ideally by 10 p.m. 

For my pre-wedding journey, I wanted something to support my skin from the inside out. It seemed more reliable than leaning on tons of topical products. But because I'm a rather strict vegetarian, I don't take collagen supplements. That's where cellular beauty+ came in. 

Y'all, this supplement is gold. I've been taking cellular beauty+ for four months, and the hydration is as enviable as when I wrote about it in the winter.* My dermatologist even asked what I was doing to make my skin so glowy and fresh.

I have a skin issue (or challenge, if you will) called keratosis pilaris, also known as KP (colloquially, it's also called "chicken skin" or "strawberry skin"), which means I have bumpy, blotchy upper arms and legs. It's very common and totally harmless, but aesthetically, it's not my fave. Furthermore, I'm not going to tell you anything about my dress…but my arms show (scandalous, I know).