11/08/2024
"You belong somewhere you feel free."
This is your reminder that I, my business and this account are inclusive, safe spaces 🤍 The only thing I reject here is hate.
A lot of us are feeling scared and vulnerable, with good reason. I want to gently encourage you to not catastrophize; the future is unknown to us still, and all we have control over is how we respond in the present. Please do not let fear and anxiety dim your light. The world still needs you and people like you.
Of course, I loved all my clients this year. And I especially want to emphasize at this time the gratitude I feel towards my q***r/LGBTQIA couples (including those who never intimated their identity to me). When I started my business, I never dreamed that I would get to book so many couples who were like myself. I'm just so happy that you all recognized me as one of your own, and trusted that I was a safe person to have as part of your vendor team.
Let me tell you, I've done a LOT of work over the past year in regards to my own identity. I learned about compulsory heterosexuality. I observed ways in which I had internalized homophobia towards myself, the ways in which I subconsciously policed my own actions and thoughts over the years. I acknowledged the shame and guilt I have felt for my own gender and sexual fluidity, and ultimately I accepted all of it.
For those who have never felt at odds with our society's take on gender, it may seem excessive and unnecessary. After all, at the end of the day nothing changed. At my core, I'm still the same as I've always been. But the lightness that comes from seeing, accepting, and loving the parts of myself I didn't even know I was denying can't be understated.
Anyway, thank you all for reading and please enjoy some snapshots from Kayla & Alie's wedding day! It was magnetically fun, tear-jerking, and the definition of q***r joy 🤍🤍🤍🤍 and please take care of yourselves.
