Gasp…How People Go Without Photographing Their Biggest Life Moments

Let me say this louder for the folks in the back…no proposal, engagement, or wedding is too small to be photographed.

We all get it, photographers get it, I get it. You are a simple person, you imagine your most intimate life’s moments without a crowd, your wedding vision is nothing flashy or over the top, and typically, you do not like to be the center of attention. Maybe there are even some deep-rooted defense mechanisms or insecurities on why you do not like to be photographed. Whatever your surface or deep level reasonings may be, you have found yourself dismissing the services of a professional photographer.

What people often do not think about it, is that this moment, the day in which you are proposed to or propose to someone and the moment following a year or two later that you say “I do” and marry someone, this moment is much bigger than you. Memory fades and as much as you think you can hold onto these memories on the day you turn 90, you may need some support from a teenie bopper and a photo album that was specially curated for you by a talented photographer.

As much as this moment is about you…this moment is also about others. The others who experienced you laughing for the first time, the people who watched in awe as you took your first step. This moment is about the offspring you could create. Those curious growing humans who crave to know the people who brought them into this world. This moment is about every moment that you want to travel back in time and feel those feelings you felt on this one special day.

I couldn’t tell you firsthand what these emotions are… I have never been married, however, after countless moments of observation, I have seen people crawl out of their shells and glow in the light they have never seen. I have witnessed partners look at their future spouse as if that was the last time they would see planet earth. I have seen tears shed that send butterflies down to your gut (and you do not even know these people). I have heard stories been told about random bar hook-ups turned marriage, a successful swipe of the right on Bumble, and years of friendship that turned into the biggest rom-com out there.

Your moments are stories and there truly is no better way to preserve them than by looking at them firsthand.