A look into an intimate wedding at the Lighthouse Inlet Heritage Preserve on Folly Beach
I’ve been asking my couples to share their love stories so I can get to know them better. Dani and Louis’ story has touched my heart and truly inspired me. I couldn’t not share it!
Their love languages are both physical touch. It’s no wonder they wouldn’t stay apart from one another.
Dani, the bride shares:
“The most pivotal moment for our relationship, the moment where everything changed, was when I got my first job out of college. We both grew up and lived in Michigan, so this was an exciting ‘small-town girl goes to the big city’ moment for me (granted, we grew up in Ann Arbor which really isn’t that small). We weren’t incredibly serious at the time and kinda knew that there may be a moment one of us got a job outside of Ann Arbor. We had an agreement that we couldn’t do long distance and would end things when that time came. Well, I had 2 weeks to pack up my life and head over to the city, and Louis was there for me every step – and mile – of the way. We shoved everything into a UHaul and started our drive at the buttcrack of dawn for the 10-hour drive to NYC.”
“It wasn’t until we got on the highway that the tears started coming. It had to be the corniest scene out of a movie – the song “Happier” by Bastille & Marshmello kept playing and it was as if it sang the lyrics that we were feeling for each other, knowing we were about to be split states apart and would be ending our relationship. We even pulled over at a highway overlook and stared out at the trees and mountains, hugging and sobbing (tell me this isn’t a corny movie scene lol we joke about this all the time).”
“In our minds, our entire relationship was ending. We would no longer see each other, we probably wouldn’t talk to each other, and here we were dying at the thought of it all yet still going through with it. Hours later, we got to my apartment and moved everything in. We spent the night talking and crying and sharing how much this was really going to hurt.”
“The next morning, Louis took the Uhaul back home to Michigan, and there I was left alone in NYC. Well, we couldn’t stop talking to each other every day since we split apart. A week later, Louis said that he couldn’t decide if he should go visit a friend in Chicago or not, and I jokingly said he should just come visit me. He non-jokingly said okay. And then he non-jokingly drove 10 hours the next day to come see me. And quite honestly, the rest is history. Every month for a year, he would drive the 10 hours to see me for 2 days. A few months later, we were in a Korean BBQ restaurant in K-town and he told me he was going to marry me (I cried). 1 year later I moved back to Michigan, and 3 years after that he proposed. We love each other because we cannot stay away from each other. No matter what, we’re always drawn to each other. I even found some old preschool photos of me next to a boy on the playground – turned out it was him! We didn’t even know we went to the same preschool, but we were next to each other even then. We both feel like the luckiest people in the world.”
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Camera Notes: Fujifilm xt5
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