When I was a kid I always hated roller-coaster’s. It wasn’t that I had any issue with heights or that I was particularly scared about going upside down or diving up and down at high speeds, it was mostly that I spent the entire (usually 2 hours!) queuing worried about feeling sick and looking like an idiot in front of my friends. It was only at a recent trip to Flamingo Land with friends that I realised that the only way to tackle a roller coaster is to jump on, scream your head off and enjoy the ride…
It occurs to me that weddings are a bit like that – months of nervous build-up and worrying about what’s going to happen on the day and when it finally arrives and it’s your turn to step onto the ‘coaster you can either continue to worry about something going wrong and miss your chance to enjoy it or you can strap yourself in, scream with excitement and prepare yourself for one hell of a ride.
The most fun weddings are always those where the couple completely let go and allow nothing to stand in the way of them enjoying their big day, even if their plans fall away around them. One such couple’s wedding has become somewhat famed over the weekend as our friend Jon at S6 Photography was on hand to capture a truly beautiful wedding that ended up taking place in the back-end of a hurricane, with their Tipi flooding and water leaking through the roof of even their hastily put-together backup venue. Decorations were destroyed, the bride’s dress was drenched and the guests were forced to wade through huge pools of water. The bride and groom could have despaired, they could have cancelled everything and added tears to the rapidly growing puddles, but not this bride and groom. This was their day and nothing and nobody was going to stop them enjoying their day. They simply rolled up their trousers and waded right in.
This is an extreme example but so often bride and grooms allow the smaller things to stand in the way of enjoying their day. You can plan a wedding to the minutest of details but at the end of the day it’s the people who are there that matter, everything else is just, well, stuff. Chances are something will go slightly wrong at your wedding no matter how well planned it is, but at the end of the day as long as you can get married surrounded by the people you love does anything else really matter?
So as you stand in that queue, staring up at the daunting ride in front of you, quit worrying about what could go wrong, just get on, strap yourself in and scream if you wanna go faster.
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