Wedding season has started. We have so many invitations for the month of June, something every weekend and already have one wedding under our belt and another this coming weekend. I absolutely love weddings, maybe because I love planning parties and a wedding is the ultimate event to plan. I have almost every issue of Martha Stewart Weddings that I have been collecting since I was about eleven and I still buy them.
I had a lot of fun planning out every little detail for ours but there are so many things I would have done differently. There are so many resources available now, just within four years. When I was planning there was no etsy.com (where I probably would have gotten almost everything) and there weren’t any blogs devoted to wedding ideas. I would spend hours doing search after search just to find someone who sold paper lanterns bigger than eight inches. But it all turned out well. i just kept in mind that it was a party for our friends and family thanking them for being behind us and I wanted to make it as fun and as comfortable as possible for them. People still talk about our wedding so I guess it was all I could hope for.
This weekend was Scott’s cousin Kristen’s wedding in Minnesota. She and her new husband, Aaron, are a beautiful couple and it was a fun day. Kristen contacted Scott last Thursday when she realized there was a miscommunication with her photographer and that there would be no one taking pictures of their wedding. She asked if we would be able to do the job. So I went out and bought a flash and got the opportunity to photograph my first wedding. I was a little nervous but things turned out well and I hope Kristen and Aaron are happy with their photos.
I’m not sure which job I would like more, wedding planner or photographer. Maybe I could do both.
I would go for the photography business – you’re good at it. And everyone needs a photographer, but I don’t run into a lot of people who use a wedding planner. Even if they should.