Megan & Chris’ Marriott World Center Wedding

by Becka on May 27th, 2010

Marriott World Center | Orlando, Florida

Megan and Chris are absolutely adorable. And Megan may have been the most relaxed bride we’ve ever shot. She was graceful, lovely, and completely at ease all day long which makes our job even easier. They welcomed us into their love story and we had a great time celebrating with them and capturing these images. I don’t want to embarrass Chris but by far my favorite part of the day was the minutes before Megan walked out to him. His groomsmen stared down the green field as Megan made her approach. Chris’ brother stared at Chris, smiling, as Chris stared at Megan and tears of overwhelming love fell down his face.

I LOVE the different dynamics of different families. Some families are very internal and hardly show any emotion at all, even though I can see in their eyes that the waves are rolling deep inside of them. Other families laugh when they feel like crying. It’s so fun to watch because you can tell that their hearts are just so overwhelmed that their body doesn’t even know what emotions to express and they rotate back and forth between nervous laughter and tears- usually giving in and doing both at the same time at some point. And then there are the families that are able to truly express their emotions with no confusion. This is especially striking to me. Especially when the men of the family have no qualms about it. I want to raise my future sons that way because I think it’s so completely beautiful. Chis family was one of those families. I loved that the sons were not afraid to show how they were really feeling. They didn’t make fun of each other or try to take away from the moment at all with jokes. They let themselves (and each other) feel it, and show it. And they let me capture it. It was lovely. I hope you feel the same emotions when you look through these images and I hope Megan and Chis will be able to look back on these for decades to come and remember what it felt like when…