Weddings
make me cry. I do not cry easily, by the way. I usually cry for puppies
and old dogs, for old people begging on the streets and sad movie
endings, but apart from that I don't cry. However, it gets a little bit
hard to keep my face from crumpling up everytime I attend a wedding,
especially a wedding that is very beautiful, one that has been planned
with love and care to the minutest detail. So when Kat, a friend of mine
and one of the best photographers in Dumaguete asked me to serve as her
second shooter for this wedding, I did two things: I said yes, and
immediately after saying that, I Googled 'How to avoid crying at
weddings.' I had to be prepared. People would think it strange if they
saw me crying, especially since I knew that I would not know a lot of
the guests there. I have cried at weddings before, especially if the
couple were people I knew, and especially if I knew of their love story.
Dianne and Fritz have a beautiful love story to tell as well, although I
should not be writing about that here (although that would be neat!).
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This Dumaguete wedding was very beautiful, and I was very thankful that I only got
misty eyed at church, once, thank God, and I had to wipe a tear or two
during the reception, just seeing how happy everyone was. Weddings are
more than just the celebration of two people coming together. It's the
celebration of two worlds, two families, two groups of friends, coming
together into one, smiling, beaming, singing mess. And for the families
of the couple, it is a reunion of sorts. For those who can afford to
have even their distant cousins there, a wedding is a time where you see
an aunt who you have not seen since you were in kindergarten, or the
yaya who changed your diapers and fed you until you reached Grade 1. In
this wedding, Fritz and Dianne had their picture taken with the people
who took care of them when they were kids, and I was immediately
reminded of my yaya and how I have not heard from her in a long, long
time. Weddings make you remember the people who showed you love as you
grew up, and make you wish every one of them could be there at that
moment. It was heartwarming seeing the couple have that in their
wedding.
Perhaps another reason why it's so easy for a lot of people to get emotional at weddings is because it celebrates almost all the things we love about life. Family, best friends, good food, dancing, and if you have one of the best team of event planners in the area (Purple Parasol did a great job with this one, as expected), pretty things! I loved how they put everything together, the lighting, the stage with the hanging mason jars that each held a single flower, and even the puzzle-style message cards where guests wrote their wishes for the couple. Everything went exactly as planned, and I think the couple could not be happier.
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