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Dirt on the hem, Scotch in the flask, and a 10-year-old promise kept on the edge of a volcano!! 🌋🥃 Cindy and Jay skipped the wedding performance and opted for pure, understated partnership... complete with a bride in North Face boots and a canoe canoodle. This AAPI Heritage Month, we are screaming from the rooftops (and the crater rims) for couples who do it entirely their own way.

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Friends, I have receipts. David's Bridal (yes, the one that has filed for bankruptcy TWICE since 2018, laid off 9,000+ workers, voided customers' gift cards, and left independent seamstresses unpaid for thousands of dollars in completed work) has just announced it's pivoting to AI.

They want to be your wedding planner. They want indie vendors to pay them for "AI-matched leads." After everything they've done to couples AND small businesses in this industry!?

I wrote about why this won't work, and why the wedding industry's actual immune system has always been independent vendors and the couples who hire them.

Link in comments. Share if you're tired of watching extractive companies eat small businesses alive.

Can you guess what year this wedding happened? Sometimes it's easy to forget that we've been doing our thang for almost 20 years, and then I'm doing some work in the archives and I stumble across these two cuties and just so dang ADORABLE.

6 ways for autistic wedding photographers to avoid burnout, from autistic wedding photographers who know: https://offbeatwed.com/autistic-wedding-photographers/

Photo by Emily Paris Photography
Article also featuring wisdom from Dutcher Photography and A+K Photography