Getting the jitters when you're planning your wedding is fairly normal, as is struggling to sleep.

However, it doesn't have to be your experience while you are planning your wedding. If you find yourself struggling to sleep or dealing with a lot of anxiety, here are a few things you can try to get yourself back to normal.

Build a New Routine

Do you have a bedtime routine? If so, it might be worth making some changes to it to help relax before bed. If you don't have one, you are missing out. Creating a routine for yourself before bed helps your brain and body realize that it is time to go to bed and that it needs to produce melatonin.

Your phone and other electronics should not be any part of this routine, because they put off blue spectrum light that tells your brain to wake up and pay attention to whatever it's looking at. This effect can delay melatonin production for 3 to 4 hours, making it incredibly difficult for you to fall asleep.

Try a White Noise Machine

If you find yourself waking up in the middle of the night because of sounds in your home or your partner's snoring, you might want to try a white noise machine.

Adding white noise to your bedroom creates a baseline level of noise that will drown out some of the other sounds, making it easier for you to stay asleep for longer periods of time.

Try Essential Oils

Essential oils are the distilled oils of various plants or other natural objects. They take the scent of a plant, and occasionally it's other properties, and make it more accessible. You can try essential oils like chamomile, lavender or jasmine as a pillow spray, as a wax melt or as a straight oil to help yourself relax before bed.

Make sure to turn off the wax melter or incense diffuser before you fall asleep if you decide to use those so you don't wake with a start in the middle of the night when you remember that you didn't do so.

Change Up Your Bedding

Chances are, you don't remember the last time that you bought a new pillow or mattress topper, let alone a new mattress. You should be replacing your pillows and mattress toppers approximately every one to three years, and your mattress approximately every eight years.

You may not have the budget to update your mattress entirely during your wedding planning process, but a couple of pillows or a mattress topper should be more doable. Getting the right kind of pillow for the way you sleep will do wonders for making you more comfortable and helping you to sleep for longer without tossing and turning from discomfort.

Talk to A Doctor

If you are dealing with a lot of anxiety and sleeplessness over several weeks or months, talk to a doctor to see if there's another underlying cause for these problems that you don't know about yet.

It may be helpful for this to keep a sleep diary so that you can show exactly what issues you are having.

Jackie Kepler is a MattressReviews.net sleep professional. She enjoys sleeping with cats, but sleeps on a king size bed because she needs her space, too.