Wedding photos

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These photos are beautiful!! It looks like it was a great day. I especially love that last photo - the veil against the bright red carpet, the gold accents, and you two in the very center of the photo, it looks so special! Don't compare your wedding to anyone else's - if you liked your flowers, dress, etc, and if you look back on these pictures and are reminded of happy memories from the day, that's all that matters. Congratulations on your wedding!!

Your pictures are beautiful!! Congratulations!! 🥂🎉

I think these are beautiful. I really like the one in the church with your veil on the steps.

I think they're gorgeous photos. You look so happy, and your dress, veil and flowers are gorgeous.

I think it's easy to have this image in our heads of how beautiful our wedding photos will look, and of course nothing can ever compare to what we'd imagined.

I think that's for 2 reasons -

a. because it's a fantasy and nothing ever works out in real life quite like it does in our heads but also

b. because when you look at other peoples' photos, you see the perfect end result. You don't see the fact they had to scramble through rocks to get that gorgeous photo, or that her feet were killing her, or that he forgot to take his phone out of his pocket so there's a bulge in every photo, or so on and on. You only see the highlights whereas in reality every time someone else looks at their photos, they remember the process to get that highlight.

I find I often feel critical immediately after looking at, or taking a photo, because I'm a bit too close to appreciate what was captured. I think after some time, the feeling will wear off, and you'll look through them and see new things to love that you aren't seeing now.

I think they look wonderful! Your dress is pure elegance. Where did you get the bridesmaids dresses? They are great!

Cute pictures!

These pics are great!

Your pictures are beautiful!!! 😍

I can be overly critical of myself in pictures and it's really easy to pick out tiny little things once the wedding is over, but that will fade with time!! You spend soooo many days leading up to the wedding obsessing over all the details - that it can be hard to let that mentality go at first!

I love your dress and pearl necklace together - you look so incredibly elegant! 😍 And I love that sanctuary picture where you can see your dress's train and your stunning veil! ❤️

Stop second guessing your choices. Your look is classic and timeless!

Your pictures are beautiful! With our first wedding, I did the same thing. I went over every little detail and second guessed everything. At the end of the day, everything was beautiful. So now that we are renewing our vows, I’m trying to not judge myself so much.

I have the very similar feelings as you, so I think they are somewhat normal. I honestly think you look beautiful and love your dress, veil, flowers, and photos! In my case, I think I'm just kind of hard on myself, I spent so much time planning and putting things together so they'd be beautiful and how we wanted, and in the end nothing goes perfect and no one wedding is going to look like an Instagram highlight reel or a photographer's portfolio. Also, I'm not a model (nor is my husband), and its inevitable that I will find the majority of photos taken of myself unflattering, so there's that. You are likely your own harshest critic!

Our photographer just posted our "sneak peak" online and I feel a bit disappointed, but when we had our Covid elopement last year (also shot by our photographer) I felt kind of the same. Once we got all of our photos and had them for a while I found some I really liked and gravitated towards those. Of all our elopement photos, there are probably 10% of them that make me really happy, that I look at, post on social media, and printed to put in our home, and the other 90% are just backstory. So it's pretty normal to not think every photograph you got back is frame worthy, and I think with all of the effort that goes into wedding planning, it's also pretty normal to not feel 100% confident about every single aspect of how the day went. I had never even been in a wedding before and really took the lead on planning ours, so there are some things I learned in the process that would have been nice to have figured out beforehand (and that I probably would have realized had I ever been a bridesmaid), but that's the way it goes. Most things in life you practice and repeat and do over, but weddings typically don't fall into that category so they aren't going to be perfect, ever. Comparing your one wedding to an inspo Pinterest board, wedding and elopement Instagram account, wedding photographer's portfolio, all of which are highlights - the best of the best out there - etc is never going to be a fair comparison. If there are one or two photos you absolutely love you probably did a dang good job!

Also, I think its important to remember "what's done is done" and you can put this all past you now. You spent months or years planning your perfect wedding, changing plans, making decisions and second guessing them, etc and at this point, you don't have to worry about it anymore. Spending time, energy, and emotions on regrets about things you can't change isn't productive (as I write this to you, I'm reminding myself of this as well, but its a hard pill to swallow sometimes).

From my third party perspective, your photos are beautiful, and you look absolutely stunning! Cut yourself some slack, show yourself some self love, and enjoy your beautiful marriage.

Your pictures are great. I actually love that they look a bit different than the typical insta wedding. The church background (the colored window, the red carpet, the big doors) looks great with your very understated classic beautiful dress. And there must be a reason why you chose to get married in a church/that church and it's great to see that in your pictures.


Somehow we're told that we need all these Instagram perfect wedding pictures and that the photos are so important because it's the only thing you get to keep after the wedding.
I disagree with this view. The pictures are a memory of a very very special day - not more not less. You and your husband's aren't models, neither are your guests. You probably chose your location not due to what would be best in pictures but because of personal meaning/budget/convenience/availability. Most choices we make in wedding planning are some sort of a compromise between you and your husband and possibly families between your budget and your dream and lots of other factors. Every wedding has some hiccups (sometimes smaller sometimes bigger) and your pictures might reflect that.

I think it's normal to have some post wedding blues after all that planning. But with time you'll hopefully love your pictures (or at least a portion of them) and they'll be a memory of your wonderful wedding day.

I was a bit obsessing with my wedding pictures and felt the wedding blues. Then I became pregnant and my wedding (three months ago) suddenly feels incredible unimportant because I have something new exciting to focus on. I am not suggesting to get pregnant but life will move on and you'll focus on other things. It just takes some time after all those months of intense planning.

Your pictures are great and you look beautiful!! I literally gasped lol. I feel like these are very timeless/classy. You'll look back on them in 50 years and say wow, I looked good! May I ask where your dress is from? It's gorgeous and I'm looking for something similar.

Absolutely beautiful!!! I love your dress

These photos are stunning. You look absolutely beautiful. Congrats!!

I agree with whirlwind on how it’s nice to see a different style . You know what I love about it the most - it’s that it’s the most precious snap shot of the woman you wanted to be presented as for a very special day that you and your husband will cherish forever. They are beautiful pictures . You look great in all the pictures.

I think your pictures are beautiful. Congratulations!!