The blog world is filled to the brim with all sorts of different kinds of blogs these days, with all of them serving different purposes. If I had to quickly categorize this one, I’d probably call it a wedding photography blog. But for me, this blog is much more about the photographer (me and my life) than it is about my photography. Especially when wedding season isn’t in full swing. I’m always brainstorming about the kind of content I want to include on this blog aside from all the minutia filling my everyday life. And because I’m always looking for something that will help brides with wedding planning, I came up with an idea and enlisted the help of a few of my fabulous newlywed brides. I asked each of them a series of 3 questions geared toward wedding planning and wedding photography in hopes that it might help brides who are currently planning their weddings.
This post will be the first of a 3 part series and today I’ll be featuring a few responses to the following question:
What advice would you give to a bride who is currently planning her wedding?
1. ”Take a deep breath, the small things wont matter on the wedding day, you will be in lala land and not even care. It may seem like you will, but just enjoy EVERY moment. I remember sitting in a room with Cameron waiting for our ceremony to start, I just wanted it to start, I wanted to get married! I remembered when someone told us, “enjoy EVERY tiny moment of the day, because it goes way too fast!”, I did just that, now that is one of my favorite parts of our wedding day. It was just us together sitting in a beautiful, peaceful, quiet place. So ENJOY your day because it seriously goes by soooo fast.” – Brooke
2. ”The best advice that I can give a bride and groom planning their wedding would be to really Infuse your personality into everything, from the pictures to the flowers to the centerpieces. Don’t have a cookie-cutter wedding. Think about your hobbies, cherished memories, and personalities. If you love to travel, consider naming tables after places that you’ve been together. Your wedding will be a thousand times more special and memorable if you make it your own.” – Chrissy
3.”There is an overwhelming amount of wedding planning resources available to brides. Don’t let yourself become overwhelmed and lose sight of what’s important. The love between a couple, about to embark on a new journey is beautiful, and I think that keeping the love you have for each other in focus is key to planning your wedding. It is so easy to see weddings on all the amazing blogs and want to mirror their venue, decorations, flowers, colors.. even see a dress you love in a photo and stress yourself out trying to track it down.”
“My main advice would be to keep it personal. Choose your venue, decorations, flowers and colors based on details that matter to you and your husband to be. Keep it real, keep it simple. For example: After feeling completely overwhelmed for the first few months I was engaged- it all suddenly became very clear that we should choose a theme that is rustic/chic, like us. Jimmie is from Idaho and I am from Southern California– we have very different backgrounds and wanted to include details that represented us. We chose very elegant colors, our venue was outdoors and we designed centerpieces placed on blocks of wood from a tree from Jimmie’s hometown. We definitely represented the city girl meets country boy aspect of our love. We also tried to keep our focus on our families and all of the great examples of love in our lives. We set up a table with our parents and grandparents wedding pictures, and gave candied apples as our favor- Jimmie’s mom’s maiden name was Apple. I am so glad we chose to plan our wedding according to our own vision and love–not just based off of the cookie-cutter ideas that are out there.” – Kathryn
A huge thank you to Brooke, Chrissy and Kathryn for sharing their wedding planning advice. I’ll be featuring more of their responses in posts to come. If anyone would like me to post anything specific with regards to wedding planning, photography or anything in between, please let me know! I know you’re all probably sick of me talking about how much I love Breaking Dawn. Or perhaps you’re not (:
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