I advise entering the engagement and curation league of @abh12345 and learning to curate well and comment well here. The connections are most important on steem.
Also using good dApps to post with. Esteem, nTopaz, tasteem, dPoll all pay well for your good posts and there are others.
I'm having pretty good success using the palnet, neoxian and marlians tags for my posts and getting rewarded with those coins too. There are a lot more coins on steem-engine and if you have the right topics for them you can get those coins too.
Big congrats on your wedding. Here's to many more happy days for you.