I try to remember that feeling when working with couples now to streamline the process and get back to what is most important to them, both as individuals and as a couple, in a time of so much change.
Today, I read this passage about weddings from the loveliest book, A Homemade Life by Molly Wisenberg. She writes about her engagement and how for even the most laid back weddings, or as she describes, "the kind of event where the bride could wear jeans and a ponytail, the kind of evening that goes well with a bottle of Hefeweizen and a game of Frisbee," it is still a bit of a ride.
"First, when you get engaged, a few things happen. You agree to marry someone, for starters. Also, your head sort of explodes. Third you are handed a ticket- rather sneakily, I should note, with no warnings at all - to an amusement park ride known as THE WEDDING. If you were to pass it at the fair, you'd know it by the pink flashing lights and the neon sign of two doves in silhouette, kissing. It's at times mildly disorienting, and it can even tend toward terrifying, with tears, beers, pimples and speaking tickets. But if you stay in your seat until the very end, it turns out to be pretty fun."
She goes on to write about her wedding day and I just love this:
"Our wedding was exactly what I hoped for, and still, when it happened, it felt like a surprise. In that way it felt just like us. I don't know when I've ever been more proud of the two of us, and of what we love."
Her advice for the day, "...take the dance floor with your new husband, preferably to Ella Fitzgerald singing Cole Porter's "Night and Day," (click here to listen
) and when he dips you at the very end, when the horns are blaring, close your eyes tight and thank the heavens that the planning is through, and that the beer is cold, and that you can dance, dance, dance."PAPER BOAT PHOTOGRAPHY - Kentucky Wedding Photographer
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