Exclusive | Brides are refusing to give up their fitness trackers at their weddings and some are getting creative

It was Jackie H.’s big day — and her mind was racing.“Is this all going to play out the way I want?” the bride-to-be wondered.“Are things going to happen on schedule? Are our vendors going to show up? Are people going to be weird?”But there was one moment when, according to her wearable, everything finally went still.“My Oura ring reflected my stress levels as being high pretty much the entire time,” Jackie told The Post.

“Except when my wedding coordinator pulled me over to sit down and eat.”The 36-year-old from Portland, Oregon, is part of a growing cohort of brides wearing their health trackers down the aisle, eager to see exactly what one of the happiest — and most nerve-racking — days of their lives does to their bodies.“I’m a data analyst, so I like to look at data,” Jackie said.“I was curious to see how my body would react to the stresses of going through a wedding.”Adding the band to Jackie’s bridal look was an “easy choice.”“I definitely knew I was going to wear it,” she said.

“With the actual wedding clothes, it looked pretty normal, especially because the silver went well with the rest of the color scheme.”But for plenty of women, bringing a piece of tech to the altar is anything but a no-brainer.Online, Reddit threads, Facebook groups and wedding forums are buzzing with debate over whether gadgets like Oura rings, Fitbits and Apple Watches should make the guest list — or stay at home.For the data die-hards, there’s no question that their wearables are coming along for the ride.“I NEVER take mine off other than to charge,” one Redditor wrote.“I don’t want any gaps in my data and I think it would be so neat to see the stats from the big day.”“This isn’t coming off.

I am one with my [Apple] Watch,” said a TikTok user.“I know for a fact that on that day my step count is going to be crazy, and I’m gonna wanna know what it is.”Yet plenty of brides aren’t convinced wedding-day data ...