We’ve been to a lot of weddings over the years, but never to one this extra - the framed mixed media collage of the bride and groom riding a sports car to a carnival manned by Dolly Parton should be a tip-off to that. The whole day was full of incredible handmade details like this. The groom, Nate, created personalized coloring books, decorations for the altar, decorations for the several-foot-high dog sculptures that were perched all over the event, unreal numbers of paper flowers and gold stars and a handpainted photo backdrop and a million other little things that I’ve probably forgotten. Everything was touched with the lime green and pink wedding color scheme or with circus details like popcorn buckets full of flowers and spools of carnival tickets. They even hired a magician to perform illusions during the cocktail hour.
Kate and Nate’s wedding was a lot of things - colorful, delightful, full of cotton candy and pies - but if I had to pick one word to describe it, I would say it was emotional. I never want to make a big deal of the fact that we shoot LGBTQ weddings because, I mean, they’re weddings. It feels like there shouldn’t be a disctinction. And yet… our business is older than marriage equality in the U.S. This is all new and wonderful and I think it’s clear, in the pictures, that this wedding was a story of found family, which isn’t something unique to the gay and lesbian and bi and trans and queer community, but it’s a huge part of it. And it’s a part that’s worth celebrating.
