Lavender Farm & Backyard Wedding
Some photographers work for their entire careers to deliver photographs to people they never speak to again.
I have done the exact opposite- I have built a career on photographing people who not only do I talk to again, but whose lives become so intertwined with mine that the word “client” never even comes up. Friends. Only friends.
Grace and Jake have never been and will never be clients. They are more than friends- they are chosen family.
And so, this blog post holds more weight than my feeble words can possibly carry. I will try. I will fail. I will post the photos and hope they do the smallest ounce of justice.
Super 8 Black and White Footage by Juliana Laury
Grace and Jake got married in the way of two people who built an entire life together before hosting the party to prove it.
They gave me the opportunity to document a day that was never meant to be about the day, it was meant to be about a life. A Home. A family.
The wedding happened at home. There were diapers to be changed, people to be fed, laughter and chaos and everything that holds two people together in the good times and the bad, in the days that look nothing like this one, and the days that feel just like it inside your heart.
I left this wedding speechless because I knew I had witnessed the purest form of what a wedding is supposed to be.
And so, I leave you with the proof here today. Here is how I documented two people who I have called my friends for 8 years. Here are their two beautiful children, human beings who hit the parenting jackpot and will only understand much later in life that their being a part of the day that their mommy and daddy married made that day even more special than it ever could have been without them there. I love knowing that I get to KEEP WITNESSING this love story. I love knowing that this has never been the start of our journey together, just another piece of the gorgeous puzzle of friendship that we get to keep adding to for years to come.
