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Are you ready, hive?

Ready to get up close and personal with the Brooch wedding? I’m dying to share our professional pictures with you and relive our amazing wedding day! It’s finally time! Here’s a sneak peek—the same one I saw during our honeymoon in Costa Rica—of our favors and first look:

via Meredith Perdue

I feel pure joy when I look at our photos, but I have to confess, that wasn’t always the case.

In all honesty, I was somewhat disappointed in our pictures at first. I’m not sure what I expected and my feelings may have had something to do with the great many weddings I’ve viewed online, but I was a little disenchanted.

I think I expected to see a different sort of wedding; someone else’s wedding? Maybe I expected to see a model bride, and not myself? Isn’t it funny how we imagine ourselves looking so much different than we actually do?

Then, to add insult to injury, we tried to submit our pro pics to a certain mainstream wedding blog. We knew it was a gamble, but I thought for sure nothing could change how I felt about our day. Then, we got rejected. Can you imagine? I felt pretty… well, rejected.

A few days passed and the pictures began to grow on me. In fact, I began to love them. Like, really love them. I printed off a few black and whites and hung a collage in the hallway of our house. Each day I walked past them, I began to fall more deeply and madly in love.

With the arrival of our thank you notes from Wedding Paper Divas, I finally had the ’ah ha’ moment I had been waiting on. I can honestly say, I was finally just as in love with our wedding as all the beautiful, featured ones I’d seen across the web.

Photos by Meredith Perdue

I began to see past what wasn’t there, and focus on everything that was! The raving reviews that came from our family and friends helped a lot, too. Hearing their reactions, I realized my perspective was obviously tainted. How could it have not been after years of ogling at nothing but beautiful weddings?

And something else dawned on me! Weren’t we already featured on the BEST wedding website in the world (ahem, Weddingbee)? Not only that, but like so many of the other bees have declared…our day was not about the details, music, food, decor, or even pictures (believe it or not)! It was about love, family, friends, and fun, which were all abundant in the Brooch wedding!

I’ve decided to coin my recaps “Brooches Become One” in honor of this small revelation. That way, I read and remember the true meaning of our day before seeing any photos, and keep in mind that our wedding was, and still is,  about us become one. Nothing more, nothing less.

So let’s get this show on the road!

Did anything disappoint you after the wedding? Did you get over it? How?