09/15/2023
To all the brides and grooms fretting about a rainy wedding this weekend, take it from someone whose ceremony was during the Mother’s Day Floods of 2006 - let it go. Take a moment to acknowledge it isn’t going to happen precisely how you planned, allow yourself to be sad for five minutes… then move on.
If you spend your time worrying about what might have been, your biggest regret will have nothing to do with the weather, and everything to do with missing the moment.
My wedding was supposed to a beautiful outside ceremony, with white chairs lined up along the picturesque Kennebunk River at The Nonantum Resort. We fell in love with the spot the moment we saw it.
Seventeen years later and I’ve never thought once about what we originally planned or the pictures we missed out on. Our wedding was lovely and my only weather-related memories of that day was how well we executed the rainbow theme.
And you know what? We could’ve planned a staged outside photo and had a rainbow suddenly shine down on us from above in a glorious background of color and wonderment — and I still wouldn’t trade it for the photo in this post.
I mean, look at Barbara’s face. It’s candid and it’s real — it’s the look of someone living in the moment, who knows she’s cherished and always will be. I’m blessed to still be staring at that beautiful face, all these years later.
Focus only on what you can control and let the rest go. Live in the moment. Cherish eachother.
Besides, rain on your wedding day is lucky — take it from the luckiest guy I know. 🌈