497 - Wedding Wellness for Encore Brides, Military Couples & Blended Families (Mental Health Series, Ep. 2)

Bridechilla - Wedding Planning Podcast

Evergreen Podcasts

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 625 Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dr. Melissa Green is a licensed psychologist, wedding wellness coach, and recent encore bride who understands firsthand that wedding planning is about far more than timelines and to-do lists. In this episode, Leah and Dr. Green explore wedding wellness through an emotional and psychological lens—especially for brides over 40, second-time brides, military couples, and those navigating blended families and adult children. They discuss how age, identity, past experiences, and trauma can shape the wedding planning journey, how to set healthy boundaries and manage complex family dynamics, and why emotional support, grounding practices, and self-compassion are essential tools for staying calm, connected, and joyful throughout the process. If you’re planning a wedding while balancing real life, real responsibilities, and real emotions, this conversation is for you. 📲Find Dr. Green on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.melgreen Today’s episode is sponsored by Sandals! Sandals Resorts offers some of the best adults-only all-inclusive resorts that bring guests closer to the vibrancy, authenticity and spirit of the Caribbean. Start planning your dream wedding at http://sandals.com/. This episode is sponsored by BriteCo! Get 5% off wedding insurance by visiting https://insurance.brite.co/planner/BRID3 Find Bridechilla online: - Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@thebridechilla - Instagram: https://instagram.com/bridechilla - Website: http://thebridechilla.com Bridechilla is a production of Evergreen Podcasts. TAKE OUR SHOW SURVEY HERE! ⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FCT5DRM⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today's episode is sponsored by Sandals Resorts and Bright Co-insurance.
0:11.0	Let's get this party started and embrace your inner bride chilla.
0:15.7	What's up, Chillas?
0:17.0	Today we have Dr. Melissa Green Carter, newlywed, Dr. Melissa Green Carter, in with us today to
0:24.1	talk about a lot of really important topics. So if you're over the age of 40, if you're a second
0:29.6	or third time bride, if you're in the military, have a military spouse or have dealt with trauma
0:36.1	or partner with trauma, We're going to be
0:37.7	covering all these topics today. Dr. Melissa Green Carter, welcome to Bride Chula. Thank you. I'm
0:44.1	excited to be here. Yeah, start off by telling us about your company, the Resilience Studio,
0:48.9	as well as your wedding wellness coaching with the Joyful Bride Collection. As you mentioned,
0:56.2	I am a newlywed. I just got married for a second time in June. And as I was planning my wedding, I realized there weren't a lot of
1:03.3	resources and things that were marketed towards brides who are maybe getting married a second or third
1:10.7	time or brides who were older like me.
1:13.8	When I got married, I was 53.
1:16.6	Actually, I just turned 54 two weeks ago.
1:19.5	Happy birthday.
1:20.9	Oh, thank you.
1:22.1	I thought, like, I really wanted to, you know, support brides in general, but particularly those of us who really didn't seem to have a voice in the wedding industry or not as much of a voice.
1:35.7	So I started to pivot my work to work with older brides or what I would like to call like encore brides, brides who are getting married
1:47.8	again or radiant brides. So the Resilience Studio is focusing on wellness and supporting brides in the
1:58.2	wedding planning process as far as stress management and things like that.
2:02.7	And Lord knows it's a lot of stress.
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