Tips and Wedding PLanning Advice
Speak your truth. Let your family know what you want on your wedding day and have your fiance and yourself stick by each other in that decision. It doesn’t make you any less chill or a bridezilla it just helps set expectations and boundaries with your family accordingly.
Live in the moment! It’s easy to get caught up in what is going to happen next and trying to please everyone that you forget to be present in the now.
When choosing your getting ready location a lot of venues or churches have their own “bridal getting ready rooms” however sometimes they may be cramped and ugly with little no natural light. We can shoot in any circumstance however most of our brides prefer the natural light for their getting ready photos so if the space that is provided is ugly looking you may want to consider a cool local airbnb or hotel to get your dress on and get ready at.
Have a rain plan for your wedding day. The weather is out of everyone’s control we can still take great photos no matter what however it is better to have the best back up plan possible in case that it does so you aren’t left slightly disappointed that it wasn’t quite the vision you had. Create a rainy day vision back up plan. That could be finding a really cool local location nearby to take photos in or if you have a back yard tent wedding have a cool stash of twinkly lights to hang up under the tent or something.
Above all things make sure you are taking time for your mental health through this process. That is going to look different for everyone but for me just taking a candlelit bath and turning on some relaxing music does the trick most nights or just putting my phone on do not disturb after a certain point in the day. Family and these decisions can be so overwhelming what you don’t realize when you dreamed of planning your wedding was the stress that can come along with it.
