Reflecting on this Uneke Warehouse wedding makes me smile for many reasons. The people. The story. The surprises. The freedom to both capture and create. And most of all, the sense of trust I was given by these two brilliant, kind and giving people. They let me capture it all exactly the way I saw it without a single limiting factor. To me, that’s a green light to get busy and go deep. To enter black out mode. See. Feel. React. All day long.
These guys had me laughing and crying in equal doses. They didn’t take the planning of things too seriously and that created so much space for the day to take on a life of it’s own. That said, when they read each others letters, It destroyed me. I mean it’s just the three of us and the most important stuff they’ve ever said to each other is front and centre. I can’t disconnect from that. Maybe that helps me get to the heart of things quickly.
Seeing the emotion of a wedding ceremony and the lead up at close quarters is pretty special. It’s sometimes hard to focus on what I am meant to be doing when everything in front of me is so real and raw. But in the end, I know I am meant to be there because of how I connect with it. It’s always a lesson on simply going with the flow, letting go of the reigns, trusting my instincts and reacting to the magic that’s already there. Because after all this time capturing never to be repeated moments, I have learned that nothing good ever comes from following a recipe for “good” wedding photography. Every story is different. Every couple is unique.
I just wanted to simplify it all. To craft a beautiful story out of the beautiful story already in motion. It was just doing what good stories do, waiting there for me to point a camera at it.
