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The Best Wedding Investment Isn’t Decor
Think about the last wedding you attended. What stood out most to you? Some might say how good the signature drink was, or how nice it felt to catch up with family and friends they hadn’t seen in a while. Others might remember how full the dance floor was all night, or how incredible the meal tasted. After attending enough weddings as a guest (and photographing many more), you start to notice something…. All of the best memories have one thing in common.
Newly Engaged? Start Here
The second you get engaged, the wedding world comes at you fast. Everyone starts asking questions. Instagram suddenly serves you wedding content nonstop. Pinterest becomes a black hole and before you’ve even had a second to breathe, it can feel like you’re already behind on a day you haven’t even started planning. If I were starting from scratch, this is exactly where I’d begin.
The Pressure to Make It ‘The Best Day of Your Life’
There’s a phrase that gets repeated constantly during wedding planning: “It’s going to be the best day of your life.” And while I understand the sentiment, truly, it can also carry more pressure than we realize. And for many couples, it quietly turns what should feel joyful into something that feels performative, stressful, and impossible to live up to.
Being a Bride Has Made Me a Better Wedding Photographer
There’s a specific kind of weight that comes with being a bride in the wedding industry. When you’re surrounded by weddings for a living, people assume you’ll know it all. That your day will be effortless. That nothing will go wrong. That it will be perfect because you’ve seen it all before. Yet the feeling of it being your own is entirely different. In living it firsthand, I learned things about weddings that no amount of experience behind the camera could have taught me.