It’s been a long time since I’ve written a post. Ironically, I think my last post started
about the same way. I never forget that
I have this little online diary, but my life has just been a bit too busy to
document lately. That strikes me as sad
somehow, but oh well…rather have a wonderful, busy life and no time to document
than have plenty of time to document and no life!
So what’s new with me?
I’m getting married in 45 days!!!!
I’m so excited I can barely see straight. Most of the planning is done now…so the “just
waiting” has started. It feels like May
12th will NEVER come, but I’m sure it will. I’m trying to savor it, but it’s hard because
I just want to be Mrs. Josiah Coburn!
We got engagement pics done by the lovely Amanda Curcio,
proud owner of Amanda Truth Photography (one of which is pictured above). If you’d like to see Amanda’s favorites from
the engagement session (as well as some very sweet words she said about Josiah
and I), you can do that here.
I’ve been struggling over ONE decision for the wedding…first
look or no first look? For those of you
who haven’t obsessed over every detail of a wedding lately and are unaware of
what a “first look” is, let me explain.
Instead of the bride and groom seeing each other for the
first time AT the ceremony, they have an intimate moment before the ceremony
where the groom closes his eyes and then turns around and sees his blushing
bride all dolled up in her wedding day finery.
I love tradition, so I didn’t even THINK about doing a first
look…at first. I just KNEW I wanted him
to be completely surprised as I came down the aisle. I mean, sure, it would make it A LOT easier
to take pictures before the ceremony so there isn’t as much wait time for our
guests between the ceremony and reception (which I have been REALLY stressing
about), but sometimes tradition shouldn’t be abandoned for what is simply
convenient right? Easier isn’t always
better…
In this case, though, I’m having second thoughts. My lovely aforementioned photographer said
she would happily do whatever I wanted, but having done a ton of research for
her own wedding (which is coming this fall) she made some very convincing
points about the first look.
- It DOES give you more time to take the pictures. Definitely. There’s just no arguing that point
- It gives the bride and groom time to have a private moment on their wedding day and “get the jitters out” so to speak. Many brides and grooms report being MUCH more relaxed after the firt look session and portraits.
- You get a lot more pictures because you have time to take them!!
And after all that…I still wasn’t sold. However, she also provided me some links to
some other photographer’s blogs about the subject…and the pictures and
testimonials totally got me. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE these priceless moments caught on camera
shared just between the bride and groom (okay, there’s a photographer there,
too, but whatever). The genuine emotion
in some of them was just amazing…I actually got teary-eyed!
So, we’re going to do a first look and I feel SO much better
about it. I love knowing that I won’t
have to be stressed between the ceremony and reception wondering if I’m keeping
my guests waiting too long because most of the shots will already be done!
The links Amanda gave me are:
Katelyn James: http://katelynjamesblog.com/first-looks-for-brides-and-grooms-photography-wedding-day/
Jasmine Star: http://jasminestarblog.com/index.cfm?postID=457
Lauryn Galloway: http://lauryngallowayblog.com/what-is-a-first-look/
I’m not as familiar with
Jasmine, but I’ve been looking at Lauryn and Katelyn’s blogs quite a bit thanks
to Amanda (the former is Amanda’s photog for her wedding and she just did a
workshop with the latter), and I honestly have sort of a non-romantic internet
crush on both of these lovely ladies.
They are young, spunky, and write about their craft so
passionately! I would love to have a
sit-down with them sometime because they seem like genuinely wonderful
people. So…look them up! (Amanda, too!)
That’s all for now. I am completely happy to have made my decision,
and I’m VERY happy with the decision I’ve made.
I’ll write again after the wedding to tell alllllll about it!
