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31 Mar 2020

Your Special Day, Another Day

Around this time, you thought you would be hearing wedding bells. But instead, you keep hearing the word “unprecedented.” All plans feel ruined. And a part of you might feel guilty. Your wedding tears feel wrong when you know how overwhelmed hospitals are, how sick people are getting, how loved ones are separated. But your tears aren’t wrong. You have every right to be devastated. Your first thought might be: My wedding is cancelled. Because now you have to contact […]

29 Dec 2019
Brittany and Chris Beauport Hotel

One Look at You

The Earth grinds to a halt when a groom sees his bride in her dress for the first time. His jaw drops, his eyes fill, and the room is full of gasping and honking nose-blowers. At least this is what happens in Hallmark movies, slumber party fantasies, and in pictures tucked away in yellowing scrapbooks. But in reality, rows and rows of watching eyes can stick to you and weigh down your every step, every word. It might be difficult […]

10 Nov 2019

Through a Different Lens

I thought I would never get married. Someone I used to be with for a long time believed that marriage was just a label, something that people think they need in order to be happy. He said it enough that I started to believe him. And if we did get married, we said we wouldn’t hire a professional wedding photographer, or have much of a wedding at all. It would be quiet and simple, something that could fit in a […]