04/10/2025
Jodie & Mark 🩶
As with any organised event, the planning that goes in to it lasts for months, and is so necessary to ensure that each and every guest enjoys themselves. But a universal truth that isn’t always acknowledged, is the beauty that can come out of what you cannot plan.
Take Jodie and Mark, for example. For their late September wedding, we just missed sunset while everyone was enjoying their dinner and a superb performance from a magician. But we still headed out to the beach to make the most of some ‘blue hour’ portraits instead.
By the time we got to the beach, less than a 5 minute drive away, we realised the only road to the coast had been completely flooded, making it impossible to get a car through. And so, our beach hopes were scuppered.
Mark suggested from the backseat of the car, “Let’s just get out here and do the photos in the road.”
And so we did. After the sun had already set and night drew in. Completely impromptu and totally authentic.
As I said goodbye to the couple later that night, Mark turned to me and said, “I know the beach didn’t go to plan, but it ended up being the best part of the day.”
And Mark wouldn’t have realised the weight that his sentence carried or how much it meant to me. But it did, and it was a wonderful example of embracing the freeing feeling of letting go of complete control and, when it’s right, making the most of the very moment you’re living in.
These two got their full gallery today and it felt like I was handing over something I cared so dearly about and almost didn’t want to say goodbye to. I loved meeting these two, and I loved the palpable energy they filled the entire room with, all day. Truly embracing the joy of the unplanned.
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