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Luckily, I did not have my period on my wedding day.
However, for big events in the past (college formal, etc)., I have moved my period by skipping the sugar pills in my birth control pack.
No worries about it being TMI! It's an annoyance on your big day. Just another thing to worry about.
If you're not on the pill you could get put on it and then skip the placebo pills aka week of your period and start your next pack of pills right up. For most people, you won't have a period at all, some will have breakthrough bleeding/spotting.
I'm pretty sure my best friend did this to not have her period on her honeymoon. It is not unhealthy because a period on the pill is a fake-period anyhow (at least that's what my gyno has always said).
If you're already on the pill, look into a switch to LoEstrin, I was on that for three years with no period or light periods every month. It was heavenly because I have terrible periods. This post is long, sorry! I guess I missed my calling as an OBGYN! Haha. Good luck!
If your not on pills, like me, you could try Midol Extra Strength. I normally get very bad cramps during my days and it's the ONLY thing that will work for me. They say the extra strength lasts 8 hours, but it's more like 5/6. I do know that stress sometimes tends to either accelerate/decelerate the process so if you're one of those that is super stressed like me, go to a spa and hopefully slow down the process! =)
you can try skipping pills, but let my experiences serve as a warning. yes, there can be spotting/breakthrough bleeding. How much is this "spotting" ? I tried to do it for a backpacking trip to greece, and I bled
FOR ONE AND A HALF MONTHS STRAIGHT. And this is was MORE than usual. Spotting? Yeah right. Try it if you dare, but female plumbing is a mysterious and terrible thing to mess with!
This is one of my big concerns too tivoli! But I'm still year and a half away from my wedding, so not much I can do about it right now ;) I'm not really clockwork when it comes to timing either, so even though I looked ahead and chose a date that *should* work according to my schedule right now, that could change over time - whon whon.
I refuse to go back on the pill due to crazy erratic moodswings and loss of libido (two things a blushing bride would like to avoid - haha), and so
I was a bit lost as to what to do. A friend of mine suggested the nuvaring, as it is temporary, can be placed back to back (like taking the bcp back to back), and although it contains similar hormones as the BCP, they are not ingested and thus have less of a systemic impact. HTH!
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Talk with your doctor!! I know you can skip the placebo pill and go straight to the next pack but it is only recommended for certain pills (not orthotricylen). I tried to skip my period for a vacation and had the worst month afterwards (spotting & didn't feel "right").
Does anyone know if there is a period caculator online? I'm having the trouble trying to figure my schedule out for my wedding!
Period calculator here: http://www.mymonthlycycles.com/whencalcct.jsp?calctype=mp
I just googled 'period calculator' and it was the second link to come up 
Mine's actually scheduled to come the week of the wedding too, but since I'm on a triphasic, I can't just skip the placebo pills. So I'm skipping one pill a week for 7 weeks to shift everything to a week earlier (24 days cycle instead of 28 for almost 2 packs).
I too did the "shift it a few days" with the pill. I was due to be in the middle of it for my wedding, so I just started taking the pill a day early for the three months before the wedding, so by the time my wedding month came around I was starting my period on a Sunday instead of a Wednesday. No breakthrough bleeding because it was OVER by the wedding day, not just contained by taking extra pills.
Well if you're so far away you can try a different pill. I was on before that caused moodswings and then went on orth-lo. There's also those pills that will stop your period for three months...
You could also do the back-to-back birth control a couple of months out to shift your period to a week or two before your wedding.
As someone on NuvaRing who has skipped before, I don't recommend doing it for more than two rings in a row. Not for medical reasons, just for...well, it changes mucus levels and consistency so it can just get weird feeling to yourself.
Mostly I suggest talking to your gyno and seeing what he or she gives as options...they should understand that no one wants her period on her wedding day.
definitely talk to your gyno. i actually had this talk with mine today and opted for a generic version of yaz, which isn't a tricyclic (i've been having awful cycle-related mood swings). she said i can just skip the sugar pills and go a couple of months and see how my body responds.
I need to go to my gyno anyways, but I'm concerned about the wedding day period as well. I know everyone just says "skip the placebo pills" but my period always starts a few days before the placebo...
Beccs, have you tried skipping them? Maybe your whole cycle will adjust and move a few days earlier...
Soon after I got engaged I went to dinner with two recently married friends. One of the biggest pieces of advice both of them had for me was to not try to change my cycle with the pill for the wedding/honeymoon. Both of them had tried it and had unpleasant experiences physically and emotionally. If you're on the pill I agree with the suggestion to talk with your doctor and find out whether you can shift the pills around.
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you don't mention whether or not you're on some kind of birth control. if you're not, i don't think there's much you can do besides just hope for the best. if you are on birth control, like many others you can just skip the placebo pills and shift your cycle up or back. i'm on a triphasic pill [ortho-tricyclin lo] and my doc has said if i wanted i could just skip the placebos and start a new pack if i wanted to change my cycle, which i've done plenty of times with no ill effects [i tend to start a month or two before i want to change my cycle]. but everyone is different so i'd talk to your ob-gyn first. good luck!
Rather than skipping the pills I suggest moving your period up ( so you get it BEFORE the wedding). you can skip last couple of pills on your pack (2-3) and/or shorten the 7 day sugar pill period ( aka, only take four sugar pills and start a new pack). This requires a bit of "planning" ( one month ahead) but it works fine. I do it for vacation ( nobody needs period in the Caribbean).
If you are not on the pill I think just hope for the best ( sadly). I heart red wine somehow makes it start sooner and lemon makes it stop sooner so I guess you can jug red in weeks leading to wedding, but the results ( other than drunken bride) are not guaranteed.
I am on Lybrel. It is a pill that you take every day, with no placebos. While there is a chance you have breakthough bleeding, I have had none in 8+ months I have been on it. It is like Depo Provera in the sense that you have no periods except when you experience breakthrough bleeding, but without the weight gain that Depo has. I LOVE it. I love not having periods. The only problem is that it is new and has no generic. Worth every penny, though.
I used to be on Ortho Evra (the patch), which was great too, if you don't mind wearing a bandaid for a week. You can skip your period on that too by applying a new patch on the week you usually don't wear a patch. My doctor said this was alright, but of course, check with yours first.
Here's how the website explains what Lybrel does:
LYBREL is a birth control pill that delivers the same low dose of hormones every day. As with other birth control pills, it prevents pregnancy by suppressing ovulation. But when you take LYBREL, the lining of your uterus does not undergo the changes needed for menstruation and, therefore, you do not have regular menstrual periods or a pill period.
It looks like I'm going to have my period on my wedding day (next month). I can't go on the pill for medical reasons, so does anyone have any non-BC related suggestions for pushing my period forward or backward? I would really rather not be broken out and bloated if there's any way to avoid it...
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I just got married- and had (eh-em) an uninvited guest show up......
I just popped Tylenol all day long- every 4 hours - I get pretty bad cramps and that was my biggest concern.
And It helped immensley. and I was so freakin' happy all day that I pretty much forgot about it.
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Hi Ladies! I know this is probably personal, but I'm almost 95%% sure that my period will come just before my wedding. I guess getting my period isn't the end of the world, but it's the effects of it....my bloatedness, and worse yet, my skin looks pale and colorless (Something I'm not sure even make-up can fix! Hahaha) Plus, mood swings!! (Not to mention the wedding "night" situation...eak!!) Anyway, what can I do about this, if anything, and is anyone facing this situation, or if you did, how did you handle it?? =P If you choose to share, thanks in advance. =)