Sunday, December 30, 2012

"I'm saving my wedding gown, in case my daughter wants to wear it, someday."


Someday may come sooner than you think.



To optimize your viewing experience, hit play to hear this familiar and fitting song.  Unless you want to avoid tears... in which case, if you have a young daughter, you should just not look at this post, at all.




Picture these photos on display, as this gorgeous girl gets ready for her own wedding day...  I get butterflies, just thinking about it.


In twenty-some years, if I have the privilege of photographing her wedding, I imagine my normal, professional exterior will crack a little.

{love this girl.  love this family.}

*Thank you, Fern Hall for allowing us to use your beautiful estate!

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7 comments:

  1. cindygDecember 30, 2012 at 7:57 AM

    This is absolute perfection. I am in awe. Finding it hard to find words. And....I got teary WITHOUT listening to the music! What a mother's (and little girls} treasure!!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:46 PM

      Thank you, cindyg! Tears make me so happy!! ;)

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  2. HisAngelGirlDecember 30, 2012 at 8:51 AM

    My "normal exterior" cracked and my little girl is still in my womb!! Tearjerker...you are an amazing photographer...I wish you were local!!!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:48 PM

      haha That's awesome. Where are you from? We've often talked about doing a photography/vacation trip!

      And thank you. :) :) :)

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  3. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:06 PM

    AMAZING!! This makes me want to "unpreserve" my wedding dress from it's tightly sealed box and put each of my 3 girls in it... If only I had a venue like that to photograph them in!

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    1. UnknownJanuary 5, 2013 at 7:50 PM

      WELL!!! I'm working on "a venue like that". ;) I'll let you know, when I have something lined up! I've definitely envisioned sisters in a shoot like this too- one would wear the wedding gown and the others could wear bridesmaid-like dresses. Can you even imagine??? (Again, fast forward 20 years, to their wedding day...) Oh. My.

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  4. UnknownMarch 7, 2014 at 5:43 AM

    Tears....Memories of my mom letting my sisters and I wear her heavy, satin, wedding gown from 1949 and popping the many satin covered buttons off because we were at our "pudgy stage" of adolescence:) She knew what memories we were creating and I can still smell the cedar from the chest she would pull it from to let us indulge in a little fantasy of our own. It was one of the reasons I never preserved my gown...my daughter has since "worn" mine too:) Love, love, love this because I am a "Sentimental Mess" kind of girl:)

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