Q: What Wedding Moment MADE YOU CRY YOUR EYES OUT?
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There was not a dry eye in the ballroom. Everyone was crying.
What wedding moment made me cry my eyes out? I’m going to cry just thinking about it. When brides dance with their fathers.
Probably the thing I would cry most often would be the father daughter dance.
We have planned hundreds of weddings, but I will never forget this wedding that truly made me cry. And honestly, thinking about it now is getting me teary eyed.
I’m not generally a very emotional person. It takes a lot for me to get teary eyed or cry, But I would say the thing that really hit me hardest during the wedding day and can get me a little teary eyed tribute to late parents.
I know exactly the wedding for this question.
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It was a few years ago. Our team was able to create a very special moment for a groom and his mom, who had a rapidly accelerating MS. To be honest, the couple was not sure that she would be there on the wedding day. Thankfully, she was. By the wedding day, she could no longer speak and she was in a wheelchair.
They still wanted to have a very special moment with her and the groom and his sister danced with their mom on the dance floor. They moved her wheelchair to the music and even though she was not able to really express herself, you could see that she was very emotional in that moment. And there was not a dry eye in the ballroom.
Everyone was crying. Things like this remind wedding professionals why we do what we do. We can make the day so smooth for you that you can just be in the moment and make these memories with your loved ones.
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My mom passed away when I was ten, so I had to have my wedding without her. The heaviness of that moment and all the expectations that you have growing up, having a parent be involved in that special day really hit hard. So some tributes that I’ve seen to parents who have passed that really kind of hit me and stood out to me are photos and little charms, or lockets, on the bride’s bouquet.
That’s really sweet. We had a couple who had their mom’s dress be a part of their wedding dress. I think the most memorable really was one of our brides who lost her dad pretty tragically and close to the wedding. And she had one of his favorite shirts sewn into her dress, which I thought was really sweet. But I think the one that really hit me hardest, I had a couple who both parents had passed and she walked down the aisle with a photo of both of her parents and sat down on a beautiful chair and had a beautiful memorial table for her parents there.
Just the words in the ceremony talking about that tragedy and being open and expressing their emotions about we’re not going to dance around this issue. That is the elephant in the room. So let’s address it and let’s speak about it and share good stories and know that they’re there with you. Those moments are the ones that choke me up a little bit and get me a little teary eyed on the day just having been a bride that had to have her wedding without her parent.
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Of my brides, her and her dad’s relationship was so, oh, my, I have no words. It was just to watch it. The love, the bond. It was just amazing. And when it came to the father daughter dance, just the way that he held her and she helped him see, I’m tearing up. Oh, my gosh. They just they.
They were crying. They were laughing. I mean, I connected with the mom. Oh, my God. She was crying. I was crying. When there is that father daughter relationship like that and he’s giving away his baby girl, there’s nothing like that.
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I lost my dad about 12 years ago, so thank goodness he was there for my wedding almost 28 years ago. I was definitely a daddy’s girl. So that moment of daddies and daughters and that father daughter dance is really heartwarming. Also, if I’m ever at an event and the song that my dad and I danced to is played, that always gets me, whether it’s the father daughter dance or just background music during cocktail hour.
It doesn’t matter if I hear it. What a wonderful world gets me Every time.
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A bride had just love her dad. Two weeks before the wedding, they tried to have the wedding as soon as they can so that he could be a part because he had cancer. She didn’t think that she was going to do the father daughter dance, so she got rid of it. But I talked with her mom and her fiancé.
What her dad’s favorite song was talk with the DJ and the DJ played the song we had her to come up and each one of her brothers took turns, gave her a hug, a danced with her, and all of these people represented her dad for her On the day. So it was really, truly a special moment, a special time.
It just let her know and felt like he was there, even though he couldn’t be there. There were people there that would fill in the gap and fill in this. Oh, I’m sorry, fill in the gap for him during that time. As a planner, we really and truly think about the wedding day forward and backward, inside and out in our job issues to really make sure that everyone is comfortable in having a great day.
And I think adding that moment to represent her dad truly will be something she remembers forever, but also let her know that although he has passed away, you still have a team of guys that’s willing to be there for you.
2 comments
I have been asked this so many times... does the wedding industry inflate prices when they hear it's a wedding?
Here is my honest answer (as a former wedding photographer)... NO. Did I charge more for a wedding than a 50th birthday party or a family portrait session? Yes, absolutely. I charged A LOT more for a wedding.
Was I taking advantage of the emotional sell? Absolutely not.
The main reasons I charged more for a wedding were: the unseen amount of work involved in the 12+ months leading up to the wedding, the skill level needed on the day, the INTENSE pressure to create perfect "portfolio level work" no matter what the reality of the situation- but mostly it is to compensate for the time AFTER the wedding in post production.
Little known fact about wedding photography - the real job is sitting at a computer editing photos. Photographers spend many hours behind the computer carefully selecting and editing photos. They make adjustments, crop, and adjust colors to ensure each image it's best. Don't forget the time it takes for batching, renaming, importing, exporting and uploading the photos and preparing them for delivery.
Do you think this justifies why photographers charge more for weddings than for other types of shoots?
Couldn’t agree more! And on the videography side its an absolute ton of data + editing discipline.
Its a double sided coin- weddings are extremely high pressure but also high reward when we nail it.
Our products (photo video) in particular are the only thing that genuinely will last forever . Having fun and ALSO nailing the product is worth the price of entry and frankly more.