As you’ll hear quite a few times in their wed­ding film, Katie + Tay­lor have been togeth­er for 15 years — an impres­sive feat made even more incred­i­ble by the fact that these two met and fell in love in grade 9 🥹

We think it’s fair to say that get­ting mar­ried in the time of COVID-19 altered many of our cou­ples’ and our own expec­ta­tions of what a wed­ding should be. Scratch the larg­er ball­rooms, four-tiered wed­ding cakes, and ten-piece band-led dance floors and enter the inti­mate wed­ding. Because big­ger doesn’t always mean bet­ter and a pan­dem­ic cel­e­bra­tion doesn’t mean you have to mud­dle through less than ide­al plans. In many cas­es our cou­ples have more than “made do” and their big days have been even more mean­ing­ful than any­one could have anticipated.

PAUSE

We pause for many rea­sons: to lis­ten, to reflect, to revere, to be present. We pause for lit­tle things — like cross­ing the street — and big things — like tak­ing time away from our busy sched­ules to cel­e­brate hol­i­days and spe­cial occa­sions. For the past year, we’ve had to pause for our safe­ty and pause became a per­pet­u­al part of every day life. Each of us have had our own set of com­pro­mis­es, dis­ap­point­ments, and hard­ships and we had to find new ways to embrace this state of being.