Romantic Wedding

This link offers snapshots of a truly individual wedding ceremony. A truly romantic wedding ceremony, if you will.

Tahni and Joseph (the couple pictured) decided to throw a Bohemian/French inspired wedding! Take a look at the photos, they’re incredible. I’ll admit, I’m a romantic in just about all regards, and this wedding epitomizes that.

How do the pictures of this wedding scream “romantic” to me? Well, for pretty much all of these reasons:

• Tahni has no veil or tiara. She has a beautiful and natural headpiece with flowers, leaves, and winding vines around the crown of her head.
• Her makeup is minimal. No makeup on a wedding day? That’s an intimate view of the bride’s natural beauty.
• Her dress has a little lace – lace simultaneously covers and reveals physical beauty.
• The dress is white, the universal color of innocence.
• The dress also has little flounce. Who says romance has to be full of extravagant frills?
• Joseph looks barely old enough to marry Tahni. His build is still boyish, which makes me think two innocent lovers have found each other in the big world.
• Joseph isn’t wearing a tux, or even a sport coat! In the ceremony, he is still wearing his flat cap. Who used to wear flat caps? Poor little newsboys. Poor little immigrants. Flat caps have, after all, been named the “mark of a non-noble”. So romantic! He is “poor” but wants to marry her anyway.
• His hair (and hers) is clean, but a little unruly. Neither is slicked-back, pulled tight. Just loose curls and ringlets. Natural.
• Sunlight peeks through. Purple flowers everywhere. Grass that appears almost bluer than it does green. Knotted trees and branches. Everything has a golden glow.
• Butterflies. Lanterns filled with flowers.
• Tables have globes for centerpieces and repurposed kitchen pitchers for vases.
• Old, handwritten postcards. Wild flowers instead of roses.
• It is a wedding. The ultimate consecration of love.

Refer to Robin’s list of what makes something “romantic”. You’ll feel the emotions, the love. The wedding is completely individualized to their taste (when have you, or when will you, ever see a wedding with your own eyes that is just like this?) The wedding is set in nature; the entire thing is outside. It’s crafty, artistic. It looks like it was thrown together on a dime (though in reality it probably cost much more). It’s rural, they’re children, it’s all innocent. Everything looks placed, set, written, and done by hand. A bit feminine? Arguably yes, it is.

I think a political message might be that weddings don’t need to look like they cost a fortune to show the love. Love isn’t purchased, after all, it’s natural. This wedding appears to be so naturally beautiful, that the love between the couple must be equally beautiful (and equally natural). The wedding, hair, dress, and entire ceremony appears effortless. Maybe their love for each other is effortless, too.

What is the overall message? These two, out of every other person across the globe, have found each other. The four words I took away after seeing this wedding (and have used multiple times now)? Natural. Beautiful. Effortless. Romantic. By finding each other, they round beauty and love and romance. Really, what could possibly be more romantic than pure romance?