I sit here tonight thinking of the weddings from last year and the new ones coming up this year. I can’t help but think that it must be so hard to make a lifetime’s worth of dreams become a reality. Didn’t we all dream about what our wedding day would be like? I really don’t envy the stress that comes along with trying to pull that off. But I will use this blog to try and offer some advice that I hope will help you out.
For whatever reason this is tip #3, it should be tip #1......
Have fun on your wedding day! That’s it. My big piece of advice!
I know it’s easier said from here, not being the bride and not being so emotionally invested in it, but it’s true. I have been to so many weddings and I have seen all kinds. The one thing that I have learned is that something will go wrong, be prepared for it. The unexpected will happen and you will have to make the choice to either roll with it or let it roll over you.
I like to tell the story of one of my brides (I won’t name names) who planned this gorgeous ceremony outside. She planned for everything, except the weather. You can pray, make deals and beg but the weather just does what it wants. The ceremony went off as planned, but the clouds started to roll in. She was greeting her guests and I walked over to her and put my hand on her arm and said if you want any pictures at all....run. We did....we ran. Her in her heels, holding her new husbands hand, laughing wildly....we ran. We got 2 shots off and the storm hit..... and not some typical rain storm. We were drowned in 3 seconds flat, my camera and her wedding dress, hail stones the size of golf balls, we laughed madly as we ran into the house. She was amazing, she rolled with it. She looks at me with water running down her face and said well......I only planned on wearing this dress once anyway!
She handled this with such grace and humor that I could have hugged her. Had she not been able to roll with it, she could have ruined everything.....the day.....the pictures....everything. Don’t let the things you can’t control, control you.
