Chick Chat With Connie Girl: Where Do You Stand With Pregnancy & Pre Wedding Photoshoots?
Hello Guys! Talk Tuesday A.K.A #ChickChat is a few days late today! Apologies about that, so just for today it’s Talk Thursday!
Perhaps I’m old fashioned but there is something in me that isn’t overly keen on the excessive publicity of pre-wedding/pregnancy shoots. Not sure when or who started the trend but one can only point fingers at Hollywood and the celebrity effect. Although I feel documenting the journey of motherhood is a beautiful thing to do. Some women are so beautiful it would be criminal not to! With social media being the pulse of the world right now, most people are using it as a medium to share their lives and parts of themselves but could sharing your joy be a gift and a curse?
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I was showing my fiance some pre-wedding pics I liked and wanted us to get some ideas. He is generally not a picture person so I wasn’t too surprised that he was completely uninterested in the wedding shoot idea. He believes our wedding pictures will suffice. He doesn’t understand the purpose of those shoots and according to his mother, “we shouldn’t take any pre-wedding pictures and announce it to the world” I asked him how he felt about maternity shoots because, “I plan to take some”. He replied, “why would you want to broadcast pictures of your pregnant belly for the world to see”.
I’m not a ‘hiding girl’ when it comes to weddings and pregnancies but I started getting suspicious as to why we shouldn’t, so I asked my mother in law. She broke it down about a dear friends daughter who put her proposal pictures online and attracted the attention of some “old enemies”. She ended up not getting married to him and he remarried the “enemy” within a year. She said she believes it was spiritual and she doesn’t want the same for us. Hmmmm. I guess it’s not a battle to pick so that’s how I’m not taking pre-wedding pictures ?
Has any other bride/wife experienced this or similar? #preweddingphotos #pregnancyshoot #weddingdrama
Image Credit: Lisa V Photography for Tonto Dikeh