When Your Wedding Gets Canceled, Dress Up Anyway: Emily and Jesse

This couple had their wedding canceled not once, but TWICE. So they decided to have fun anyway. They dressed up and invited me over.

After already having to reschedule their wedding due to Covid, Emily and Jesse’s plans were further thwarted when, a year later, their venue up and decided to cancel their second date, leaving them high and dry and with the sad decision to just call it a day and scrap the idea of a big wedding reception. I know this was painful (so many things about the past few years have been). But, in typical fashion, they decided to make the best of a shitty situation. And can I just say–these were some of the most fun, least stressful wedding photos I have ever taken.

Emily and Jesse decided to get all dolled up in the clothes they’d chosen for their big day, make some popcorn, pop some beers, and make a day of it with me in their beautiful home. We listened to awesome/terrible alternative rock from our collective heyday (late nineties, early aughts, I’m looking at you) and had a freaking blast goofing around and chatting in their laid-back home session. I adore these two, and (as usual) I feel grateful to have made friends out of this thing I love to do.