08/23/2026
There are moments I photograph that I know, even as theyâre happening, will change the way I see weddings.
This was one of them.
Her mom reached over and held her hand while she was getting her makeup done. It was quiet and completely unpromptedâthe kind of gesture that happens so naturally between two people who have loved each other for a lifetime that no one else in the room may have even noticed.
But I did.
And I remember thinking about how many times that hand must have reached for hers before this day. As a little girl. Through growing up. In moments when she needed comfort, reassurance, or simply to know her mom was there.
And now, on the morning she became a bride, her mom reached for her all the same.
It struck me then, and it has stayed with me since. A wedding day holds so much more than what is happening right in front of us. There are entire histories tucked into the smallest gestures between the people you love.
Those are the photographs I never want to miss.
Because sometimes the smallest moment in a gallery is the one that, years from now, holds the most.