Congratulations to you both

It’s always fun covering weddings of amazing people. Real tears (of joy), real smiles, real moments, real people. Keep your love on, and keep supporting each other. Congratulations Mr. &Mrs. Echols.

A quick preview of your day.

Every wedding is made unique by the people involved. I have known Taylor for a few years and her and her mom’s relationship is wonderful, Taylor and her fuss and joke and it went on that way as usual. When the veil was being applied then the tears finally came. :) Tears are a good thing.

Mr. Echols

Jordan a.k.a. Jo, a fine young man, he loves his new bride and is very happy, and has good supportive men around to help him out.

Amazing ceremony, poems, sand pouring, roses, and specially written vows, that left few dry eyes in the crowd. They’s married y’all.

Mrs. Echols

From African American Registry dot Org:
“The significance of the broom to African American heritage and history originates in the West African country of Ghana. During the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, most of Ghana in the 18th century was ruled by the Asante of Ashanti Confederacy.  The Asante’s urban areas and roads were kept conspicuously clean according to visiting British and Dutch traders with the use of locally made brooms. These same brooms were used by wives or servants to clean the courtyards of palaces or homes. The broom in Asante and other Akan cultures also held spiritual value and symbolized sweeping away past wrongs or removing evil spirits.

This is where the broom comes into play regarding marriage. Brooms were (are) waved over the heads of marrying couples to ward off spirits. The couple would often but not always jump over the broom at the end of the ceremony.  Jumping over the broom symbolized the wife's commitment or willingness to clean the courtyard of the new home she had joined. Furthermore, it expressed her overall commitment to the house. It also represented the determination of who ran the household. Whoever jumped highest over the broom could be the decision maker of the household (usually the man). The jumping of the broom does not add up to taking a "leap of faith."

The irony is that practice of jumping the broom was largely discarded after Emancipation in America which was consistent with the eventual fall of the Ashanti Confederacy in Ghana in 1897 and the coming of British customs. Jumping the Broom did survive in the Americas, especially in the United States, among slaves brought from the Asante area. This particular Akan practice of jumping the broom was picked up by other African ethnic groups in the Americas and used to strengthen marriages during slavery among their communities.

Jumping the broom was not a custom of slavery, but is a part of African culture that survived American slavery…”
https://aaregistry.org/story/jumping-the-broom-a-short-history/

You should know…

Taylor - ahem…Mrs. Echols, —an emerging interior designer— was the vision behind the look of her wedding. Everything that you see that looks amazing she’s responsible for, location choice, colors, theme everything. I will get a link to her website in the near future so you can hire her to make your space look amazing.

The smiles say it all.

The best part of weddings for me are the real moments. Of course the bride is important and the cake and decorations, but if no-one was there to help celebrate, where would the sharing of joy be? Weddings are high stakes photography, there is so much to catch, and that’s part of the fun. Each memory is priceless and each photo a chance to time travel.

If you look closely…in the distance you’ll see the Seattle Space Needle.

Taylor and Jordan, thanks for trusting us to help you capture all of these amazing moments. Your images are being edited, you’ll choose the images you love, which will go in your custom album, after that we’ll go over the layout, and then send it to print.

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P.P.P.S.

There comes a point in every wedding when the couple’s faces say “Why did we plan all these ceremonies?” It’s the proverbial “Hit the wall” moment. When they are just like, sigh, ok let’s do this. They loved the cake as well as the delicious food. I will add the link to the caterer soon.

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