So let’s just say you are planning your wedding. You have a hundred different things to coordinate, dozens of well-meaning relatives to appease, thousands of small details to incorporate. Your brain quickly turns from an organ of high functioning reasoning to one of those blow-up playhouses filled with screaming kids, and oh don’t look--- that one just puked. Gross.

The question quickly becomes not what can I include, but what can I cut out to keep myself sane? Often times, it becomes the small personal details and touches that get
left by the wayside because they don’t matter, or so you’re told. While I’m in agreement
that napkins folded into doves for each place setting or die cuts in your invitations aren’t going to make or break your wedding, I think the small details do matter. The personal touches that you take joy and pride in, the mementos that you include, the colors that define your wedding– do matter, and I say this not only as a girl but as a photographer.

In August, I had the privilege of second shooting a wedding with Tim Smith Photography. This isn’t my first wedding with Tim, so we already have an understanding that I’m responsible for getting the detail shots: the flowers, the jewelry, the programs, etc. The things that you spent countless hours picking out, designing, worrying over, and that make your wedding– your wedding. And while the small stuff can be expensive or time consuming or aggravating or completely unnecessary or God help you, all of the above, they add a layer of texture and personality to your wedding that makes it unique and different from every other wedding.

So my advice is to sweat the small stuff, some of it at least. If not for yourself, do it for your photographer. ;)