WedLog

Yes, I stole the Title from East Side Bride.

She’s hilarious and blunt and I love her.  I, however, am not really all that outraged that someone posted a photo shoot in a “real weddings” section on a blog.  Because, seriously, have you seen the other “real weddings” in the blogosphere?  Come on!  So maybe they aren’t technically photo shoots for magazines and stuff, but seriously.  “Real weddings” that get featured on most blogs are basically indistinguishable from photo shoots.  Case(s) in point - the pictures below from Style Me Pretty and Southern Weddings Magazine.

Sure, I admit that I like to peruse the posts for elements I might incorporate into my wedding, but let’s be blunt.  If it looks like a photo shoot, and feels like a photo shoot, and was staged, lit, shot, and edited by a professional photographer then how is it not a photo shoot?  Seems to me that it was a photo shoot of your wedding.  Except that you styled it instead of the photographer.

I fully intend for my wedding not to be a photo shoot.  Other things to keep in mind:

Your wedding is not a state dinner

Your wedding is not a debutante ball

Your wedding does not involve royalty

Your wedding is not a gallery exhibit of all of your unique talents and interests

Your wedding does not exist for the sole purpose of impressing your friends

Your wedding is not a transaction of woman from father to husband*

*hopefully