06/27/2026
Photos by the lovely Amethyst Trail Photography💖
To my fat brides, grooms, and nearlyweds:
The weight loss industry is working OVERTIME to make you feel like you need to shrink yourself. That you’ll only be loved, cherished, desired, happy…if you lose weight.
As your body positive wedding photographer, and a fat bride, I say: F**K. THAT.
In the year before my wedding, I felt the pressure to lose weight, and this pressure only intensified when I decided I wasn’t going to. In therapy, I talked about my worries: that one day, my partner — this amazing, sweet man who has only ever expressed that he is deeply in love with me and my body — would wake up and suddenly realize that I was too fat to marry.
She said one thing that changed my life: “why are you assuming he would lie? Why are you putting these awful words into his mouth?”
An industry fueled by capitalism, racism, ableism, and fatphobia made me question the REAL love right in front of me.
You deserve to take up space in your body — the body your partner loves — on your wedding day. Don’t you ever forget that.
