Over the past 3 weeks, I have blogged a Share The Honest Love post every Sunday morning and today I would like to add to this wonderful and uplifting series of images. If you’re new to Share The Honest Love, please take a moment to read this – and to learn how to participate in this project using the #ShareTheHonestLove hashtag, read on to the end of this feature.
Last week, I took pleasure in sharing images that showed the love between generations – this week, I haven’t gone for any particular theme, but I can’t help be drawn to the following photographs for the sheer joy expressed through each image. I have embedded the images so that you can see directly who shared them. Thank you all you Instagrammers for sharing the honest love, these photographs are so very lovely 🙂
And now over to Laura for the image that has captured her imagination this week in her quest to share the honest love...
“I have loved seeing just how many images have been posted for #sharethehonestlove and each week the task to choose a favourite proves very difficult! It’s brilliant to see how many newly-married brides have shared their recent photos (and how many brides-to-be have contacted us to say that it’s changed their thinking) but what I’ve really been moved by is the amount of people taking time to look back through their wedding photos. As well as going back through my own wedding photos, I’ve gone through the photos from every single wedding we’ve hosted at Fetcham Park.
Share the honest love has made me look at everything in a completely different way and I’ve loved seeing that it’s led other people to do the same. And it’s not just that; it’s as if it’s ‘allowed’ people to post photos that they might not have done otherwise: whether it’s because they’re not ‘flattering’, not ‘perfectly’ shot or not ‘stylish’ enough. It’s as if we’d all lost sight of what we should have been looking for: wedding photos aren’t there just to make a perfect Facebook profile photo, to impress people with a photographer’s technical skill or show off our taste and style. Wedding photos are important because they capture the love. The photos people have chosen to share are real and honest moments, and that’s what we’re looking for. And what we’re all enjoying seeing.
Which is why I love this photo: the morning of a wedding is such a special time and this captures the happiness, love and excitement perfectly. It doesn’t matter that there’s a carrier bag and empty glasses in the foreground, that’s actually what makes it so perfect! It’s a real and honest moment, one which everyone is so focused on that they’re oblivious to being photographed. And that’s what this is all about.
So thank you to everyone that’s sharing and thank you to all the brilliant photographers that record these amazing moments.” — Laura Caudery
We’d love to encourage you to share your own Share The Honest Love image on Instagram or Twitter – do you have an image that moves you and reminds you what weddings are really all about?
Be sure to share using the #ShareTheHonestLove hashtag – we look forward to hearing from you. You can over 700 #ShareTheHonestLove images that have been shared so far here.
With love,
Annabel and Laura xx
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Founder of Love My Dress. Passionate Podcaster and Editor. Annabel lives in rural North Yorkshire with her husband and business partner Philip, their two daughters and menagerie of furry hounds. She loves photography, meditation, walking, being outdoors and star gazing. She is fierce when it comes to championing talent within the wedding industry and when she's not working on Love My Dress, she supports her husband Philip in the running of the family's sustainable flower farm and floral design business, Moonwind Flowers. In 2013, she became a published author.
