How best to avoid AF on the BIG DAY!?

[peaky297]

My fiancé and I are getting married next year and hope to start trying for a baby straight away. I have been on Microgynon for 3 years and am contemplating coming off the pill 3 or 4 months before the wedding to prepare my body for TTC.
My main worry is AF turning up on my wedding day / honeymoon. If I went back to a normal cycle, would AF start 28(ish) days after my breakthrough bleed?
Of course I know that I may not go straight back to normal, but I have crunched some dates to try and work out when to come off if I do decide to do so.
Any advice on my situation / coming off the pill generally would be appreciated! Thanks x

I don't think you'd be able to predict your period with certainty and plan it to not come on a few days, three months away! You have no way of knowing when your individual cycle would be back to normal.
Why is it so important to be pill-free and making babies directly following the honeymoon?

I came off the pill 8th August, had a 29 day cycle, followed by a 25 day cycle. I'm currently 6 weeks pregnant.. it's so unpredictable how quickly or slowly your body will get back to normal.
Only you can decide what's best for you, but just be prepared to be pregnant on your big day.
Congratulations on your wedding

I stayed on the pill until 10 days before my wedding. Previously I hadn’t really been taking any petals from it. Period started 48 hrs later. Was AF free for wedding and honeymoon. And got pregnant on honeymoon.

Sorry, forgot to mention I came off the pill twice (for two DC) and the time it took to get back to normal was completely different. Pretty much straight back into normal cycle the first time, very irregular the second. :/

It might take months to get back to being regular. I'd keep taking the pill until much closer to the date if you really want to be certain your period won't interfere with your wedding.
You probably don't want to be in the early stages of pregnancy for your wedding (nausea) and honeymoon (nausea and restricted travel options) anyway.
I'm changing from the pill to the coil soon, but I am waiting until I'm back from my honeymoon as I don't want hormones potentially ruining it.

bonzo seems to have judged it perfectly!

Just because you hear so many stories of women who don't go back to normal after coming off the pill for months. My friend recently came off the pill and it was only last week, 5 months after coming off it, that she finally had a period! My Fiance and I certainly aren't old, but we aren't in our mid 20s either, so if we want more than one child then time could be of the essence!

When I had a special holiday planned my doctor gave me some pills that would delay the period. I had to take them for 10 days, so you could do that if your periods returned.

I think you have a choice.

Come off and risk a period or come off when you get married. You can't predict these things.

I was on microgynon for years and stopped to TCC. AF cycles were 26days from then on. I personally wouldn’t risk it and would stay on it until after honeymoon. You can take northisterone to delay period but it’s hormonal and may mess up your cycles