2020, The Pandemic Wedding, We did it. Finger Lakes, Wedding Photography.

2020.

It brought us all to our knees.

Affecting every plan.

So much soul searching, questioning, and figuring out how to make the right decisions.

Kind of like a relationship?

Once you get through all the falling to your knees, changing of your life path, asking yourself if you found the right person, you want to celebrate!!!

This year made celebrating with a group of people different.

It broke our normal expectations. Things like weddings and how they look and feel are deeply ingrained for so many of us. We envision them. Some of us even before we meet our partner. They are a right of passage.

If you were able to get past the part about the event not looking and feeling like you envisioned, then you had to live with the fact that not all your people could be there with you.

Needless to say, no event we were a part of was normal or typical. They were however, I’m going to say it: INCREDIBLE.

In their own unique way.

Couples spent their money differently. They thought about the people at their events in a new uniquely caring way. They highly valued the time spent. They were so grateful for whatever it was that happened.

No put downs to our past couples, because you all are amazing people, you know that.

BUT this year, in our opinion, brought out the BEST in some people. We were so impressed and lucky to be able to capture these events. Even though we were sometimes not as close physically and connecting with our client’s and their family’s was more of a challenge. We still loved it and made it happen.

The masks, the biggest challenge. At first, nobody wanted to even remember they were a part of the year, so we avoided them in photos. Then we realized that a major role of having a professional at your wedding event was telling the story of your day. If we were leaving out masked people, we were leaving out the people. So.

Also, PS, by the way, if you didn’t know: USING A CAMERA WHILE WEARING A MASK, is a #$%^&*( challenge. Your viewfinder fogs completely. So, it’s kind of like shooting blind, or actually shooting blind. Which, isn’t a very creative process. BUT, we figure it the heck out! (cause that’s what we do).

When all was said and done, people got married. They did! They celebrated! They started their journey together. Maybe they will have a larger event another time, maybe they won’t. Maybe weddings will change as we know it. There are some great new things?!?!? Like: 50 people rather than 200 means like crazy good food, incredible florals, and time to actually have fun with your people. (one positive. I will post about all the other positives, promise).

2021, we are coming for you. We have some kick ass couples scheduled and we know they are going to make beautiful things happen.

Wedding industry. We need help. BUT we are so strong, scrappy, creative and we will PIVOT. Side bar though, we need to get together on the same page to do it. Let’s talk about that because we are ALWAYS stronger together. It can not be every person for themselves. We have our people, but we want all of us to be our people.