I used to attend a lot of weddings and I’m starting to think simple is just way better.

In my teens and 20s I had a mystic view of the wedding. There’s the music, the pomp and circumstance, the big dress the bride only wears once and then goes into a hermetically sealed box after being cleaned. Flowers magically appear along aisles in houses of worship.

Because I was known among friends and family as the person with the video camera and the know-how to use it properly, I shot and edited (with music of course) probably 10 weddings in two years. I was quite weary by the end of one particularly busy summer but I did really love the pageantry of it all.
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