01/18/2014
Not just on your wedding day, but on any day... I loved this article. Pictures really aren't for us, in my mind, they are for the generations of family that will live after us. When my grandchildren (with four children, I better be getting a handful of lil grandbabies!), look back at photos of me, I hope they will be reminded of the love that I had for them, the memories they shared with me. NOT thoughts of my outwardly appearance.
"Pictures are for your granddaughter, who will one day see herself in you, and embrace her image for the first time.
On your wedding day, stand with your shoulders back and your arms held slightly away from your sides. Keep your chin up and your neck long. Check your teeth for lipstick and powder your nose. But remember: I’m not photographing you for Vogue or Marie Claire. I’m not making your picture for a CoverGirl campaign or the Miss America Pageant. I’m photographing you for the people who love you: for your husband or your wife, for your family and friends. I want your most joyful smile, your warmest embrace, your strongest gaze. And I’d stake everything on the certainty that that’s what your loved ones want to see when they see your photograph.
So let it go. We all have chubby arms when we’re hugging someone tightly. We all have a double-chin when we laugh really, really hard. We all have knobby knees when we’re ten.
And that’s exactly as it should be."
Me (left), and my grandmother (right), both in photographs taken by our husbands. I'm ten. I'm in my great-grandmother's kitchen in south Georgia. My parents have left me with my grandparents for a...
