MARRIAGE CUSTOMS

From intimate backyard ceremonies to grand traditional celebrations, couples are breaking free from cookie-cutter wedding scripts to design meaningful moments that tell their own love story. As a wedding photographer, I've witnessed firsthand how personalized vows, unique cultural fusion, and custom rituals create unforgettable ceremonies that guests still talk about years later.

When my husband and I got married, we knew we wanted our life together to be special, not just on the big days but all the time. Celebrating our wedding anniversary each year is a big deal for us. It's more than just a party or a gift; it's a beautiful tradition that helps us remember the promises we made. These meaningful moments, these milestones we commemorate as a couple, are so important. It's about looking back at our journey and looking forward to what's next, always with our family and our faith at the center of it all. It's about building a legacy of love, one anniversary tradition at a time.

Have you ever seen couples in movies or at weddings literally 'tie the knot'? This beautiful tradition is called handfasting. It's an old ritual where a couple's hands are bound together with a cord or ribbon as a symbol of their unity and commitment. While many think of it as a pagan or Celtic practice, a lot of Christian couples are finding ways to bring this powerful symbol into their own weddings. It's a wonderful way to physically show the promise you're making to each other before God. It reminds me of the Bible verse from Ecclesiastes that says, 'A cord of three strands is not quickly broken.' In this case, it's the husband, the wife, and God, all bound together.