04/23/2020
I’ve been a little quiet on here. It feels a little complicated to know what to say. Everything has changed. We have rescheduled every single wedding through June. Our busiest season is just gone like that. My weeks would have been filled with weddings and engagement sessions and planning details for weddings, and now they are filled caring for couples whose plans have been completely upended. I keep telling Zach “I didn’t handle it well when I thought it was going to rain on our wedding day... I can’t imagine how these brides are doing it!” ...better than I would - that’s for sure.
The first week of “staying home” felt like being a kid and it snowed and your dad stayed home from work and no one could drive anywhere but it was kind of fun... and maybe the power went out so you had to play board games by flashlight and get creative but that was what made it so fun. ...and you knew the snow would melt in a day or two and it would be safe to leave again but this was a little change from the normal routine and it was so fun for a day or two.
It doesn’t feel like that anymore. Anticipated moments are being canceled and passing us every day. I miss my family and my clients. Adulthood comes with this set of worries that a kid snowed in for a few days couldn’t imagine. Photographers everywhere are having their entire spring income erased. We are okay and Zach is still working full time (from home) but that is really scary for our whole wedding industry. It’s also really weird to know what to share during this time. I have really struggled whether to keep sharing (previously photographed) weddings and sessions or if that comes off as tone-deaf or insensitive to those who have had their wedding dreams completely changed.
Life’s just a little weird right now.. I think though, that our world needs beauty now more than ever. If you’re anything like me, if you hear another commercial say “these are uncertain times” you might burst. Every news outlet is just the same corona updates on repeat. You already know to stay home(and if you don’t know that by now, a reminder from me isn’t going to help.) I think what we need now is a reminder that life is still beautiful. ...and I might not be the best to do that, but I know I can choose to add to that beauty or subtract from it. So I’m choosing to add. I don’t want to act like the world isn’t going through something awful right now but I also don’t want it to be all I focus on. I’ll be sharing weddings again and hopefully bringing a little bit more beauty and little bit less fear to your feed. First up on the blog later today is the wedding these flowers are from... Taylor & Louis’ beautiful Day! It’s pink perfection and features the prettiest church ceremony and portraits with the Richmond skyline at . I can’t wait to share it all!!
