Paw Paw Michigan Elopement . Kara + Andy

When weddings, as we knew them, started to fall apart, mandates started to change dreams, and days of joy turned into bittersweet days. How, as an industry, do you rally for your couples? How do you support your couples? Do you get mad, do you start to bicker and complain? Or do you refocus, reinvest, and begin to dig deeper into them and their now much different wedding days. These past few months have been hard on all of us. The next couple of months are also proving to be hard, maybe not hard but different, a new normal. Wedding days are shifting, dreams are growing more intimate, and yet the result stays the same, marriage, vows, and commitment. I know that Kara and Andy did not plan their big day this way, but what they ended with was exactly what they wanted when they started this journey.

I am excited for the two of them and their new blended family. I am excited I could be behind the camera for them to document such a fun and exciting time. I look forward to the future of weddings. I look forward to my clients, to their new days of joy, and their original commitment to each other. I am excited to see how I can help steer, and walk along side clients as they learn what a new, mandated, social distanced, pandemic, and change in dreams can look like. To allow them to have a day that they will look back on with such joy and happiness in the years to come!