Advice for the 'To Be Wedded'

While doing my daily blogging, I came across some wise words of Gia Canali, a brilliant photographer and fellow blogger.  These words of inspiration are for the "to be wedded", which I believe I will make my mantra for the planning days ahead! 

*Your wedding is not the ultimate statement of who you are as a couple. I mean: your wedding should certainly reflect you two more than it reflects just the idea of a wedding. Of course.  But—... don’t let yourselves get out of hand.  Weddings are really just a public acknowledgment, an affirmation, marking the beginning of the adventure of your (official) partnership—kind of like a bon voyage.   Weddings are now so much bigger and more splendid and more extraordinary in design and scope than I possibly could have imagined when I was a little girl.  When we all were.  But.  How you live your married life, each and every day, or rather the sum of your days, eventually becomes a much more powerful testimony of who you are as a couple.  So, plan the wedding you imagine, great or small, near or far, lavish or serene.  I hope it is a wonderful and honest celebration (and that the photographs are fantastic, too!).  I’m just saying, I hope your marriage is even more marvelous.  Were it up to me, and were my husband and I so extraordinarily lucky, I’d rather let our fiftieth anniversary than our wedding be that ultimate statement of who we are together.*

p.s.  My husband says I should say that perhaps the “tip” here, if there really is one, is to plan your wedding for the couple you want to become.  

image via Gia Canali Photography