LOVE ~ Conquers Covid-19 — Twin Lenses Photography

2 weeks ago, I received my first heart breaking message from an upcoming bride about how Covid-19 has forced her to change her wedding plans for this month. This week I received another message about how venues are having to ‘cancel’ their events for May. This just breaks my heart. Not only for myself and my business, (don’t hear me wrong, this is definitely affecting my business and my family financially), but for these couples. Today, I wanted to give a little shout out to some of my couples and their upcoming wedding days, having to deal with all this uncertainty and heartbreak right now.

I wanted to let you know I’ve been thinking of you and you haven’t been forgotten, and whatever feelings you’re experiencing right now, sadness, fear, confusion or loss, they mean something. I wanted to let you know that with each update from the media informing us of mandated cancellations and changes in our country at this time that my heart continues to feel for you, and for what you are being asked to give up.

While you watch many of your friends trying to make the most of this time on social media… posting silly memes, figuring out how to work from home, ordering takeout instead of dining in… you’re struggling with changing, postponing or canceling a dream you’ve most likely had for years and years. While many of us are trying to decide on a new series to start on Netflix, you’re trying to come to terms with the fact that a special day you’ve been working towards for a while may look a lot different than you had hoped. I’ve had couples message me lately about other ideas and options for their big days, and I hope to blog again about some of those options. But today, i’m focusing on you, not on “what are we going to do”.

Today, I wanted to say I am sorry that in the midst of your already hectic wedding planning process, you’re being asked to handle not only more high emotions, but organizing chaos as well. Maybe moving or changing your wedding to accommodate these changes lately has been a breeze. But I have a feeling it hasn’t been that way for everyone. Finding a different date, coordinating with relatives and guests from far away, contacting each and every vendor, and trying to decide how on earth you are going to celebrate in this new reality.

So today, in case no one has told you, I just want to say I am seeing your struggle. I am recognizing what you’re having to go through, and I wish that I could make it easier on you.

And today, I want to promise you one final thing. Your day will come, and I will be still be there, to capture those memories one way or another. It may look different than you had initially planned, but it will come. Not only will it come, but it will shine all the brighter and be all the sweeter because of what you are having to endure now.

How do I know this? Because you are demonstrating what marriage, and what a wedding celebration, is really all about. Loving someone else more than yourself, no matter the cost. You are living out love as an action. You are living out sacrificial love. And love that sacrifices for others is the truest, deepest, most perfect love there is.

And perfect love, even in the midst of global epidemics, canceled plans, financial instability and changed dreams, always perseveres. (1 Corinthians 13:6)

So on behalf of every single one of us who are not walking in your shoes, I want to thank you. For making the, sacrifice that many of us do not have to make in this crazy time. For changing your dream wedding so that family and friends can stay safe and healthy and for reminding us what true love is really all about.

I have a feeling all the people you’re loving by the choices you’re making right now cannot wait to return the love when they finally do get to celebrate you!

Tara

Everyone, and I mean everyone, is in need of a little extra love these days, so let’s be on the lookout for ways to support one another during this time!

Sending all my love to the brides, the vendors, high-school Seniors, those moms-turned-homeschool-teachers, the overworked nurses and doctors, the small businesses, and every group who are making sacrifices during this time. We are all in this together.