 No relaxing that's the that's the theme of December 2018 yeah we did too many too many there's no relaxing this has been such a stressful time for both Jared and I work wise and to be honest I wouldn't have it any other way because it's made me fall in love with you and see you as a partner in such a beautiful meaningful way yeah do you feel that way about me I do feel that way but but I've always felt that way before the busyness came in always gotta one up somebody okay and I'm not saying it like that I'll just tell you the truth you want me to just oh yeah just this month you know I just feel it's just like the truth like I feel like ever since I met you you've pushed me in and and put me in positions to grow that I've never ever touched territories that that you've got me into I've never got to to get to know my man side I feel like me meeting you put me in I'm gonna cry baby you did help me a lot and it's just I can't continue to take these off okay this video is sponsored by Squarespace honestly this is the go-to place for your craft to shine whether you need a domain website or online store make it here fast easy and effortless and make it look stunning with Squarespace the concept for our wedding photos really was born out of what marriage meant to us and it meant the same it meant continuing on what we already have going it meant not making marriage into some kind of accomplishment or final destination but just making it a part of the journey of explaining our love to people and developing in our love in a way that reflects how we feel about each other so the wedding photos are just us doing normal stuff we wanted to symbolize in the wedding photos us doing our everyday routines we and the only thing that was different was us wearing the wedding outfit so yeah to me what that really symbolized is nothing is going to change yes we have a fancier title and in this case fancier outfits on but it's going to be the same work it's going to be the same day to day it's not always going to be some fairy tale fantastical us on the edge of a mountain overlooking a waterfall that's like the lives that we live i was down for those pictures well i don't expect marriage to be like that the only reason i was down for those pictures is because i know the family would want those pictures but i think that's actually a good representation of our relationship because somehow we both got exactly what we wanted and we were no one had to compromise really yeah and i understood and trusted your vision i understood and trusted your leadership and you understood and trusted mine so in that case it makes them even more appropriate but it was it was one of those things where i was like i wonder if these are going to go together like a vibe and they really did it was like amazing and you looked amazing in your dress you look beautiful if we were to do a traditional wedding where she wore this big huge white fluffy dress and then i wore this traditional black tuxedo with a bow tie i think we would have looked goofy up there but i feel like now we look like us we look like a unit we look like what we are we our relationship it's a display of that and i think that kind of going goes into the way we're doing our wedding the whole traditional of it it's like it explains us and it's just like us it's not like them or anybody else and that's what i think that is so special to me about our wedding me i agree with that as well too i think it's a reflection of what we've built and what we value i also think that we also really understood the balance between what was for us and what was for our family yeah and we found a nice healthy compromise in there and so honestly my dress was 100 for my family i just thought that like that was the thing that i knew that they would probably give me the best reaction and it would probably mean the most to them um i am half indian guyades so west indian but descendants from east india and that's a just it's one of those cultural special places that means a lot to my grandma meant a lot to my aunt my mom who is not indian at all is completely fascinated with the culture why was it important for you to have an element of your native culture in your outfit i think there's a couple reasons for that for me uh i i feel like i've only really met my native side i i really only got to know them my dad's side who is the on my black side um i haven't really got to to know a lot of them i met a couple of them i've never been to detroit that's where they're from and the the vest just looked good so so that was just really what it was it was just it just looked good with the outfit and i felt like it was a cool addition first of all super grateful for the photographer amina uh she came through she she handled it she came all the way down from the bay area and i've been a fan of her work for a minute i've been following on instagram she has a really dope like fly on the wall type of uh photography so we just when we saw that we just knew she would be perfect for the job and she really was and we're so grateful for the work that she did in the comment section below i would love to hear from you guys what is one thing that you knew you were going to do for your wedding before you decided who you were going to marry be that the dress be that the photos what's one vision that you have always had in your mind and speaking of visions i want to show you guys the full gamut of the photos that we took uh we're not going to share all these on social media obviously some of them are private some of them just don't need to be shared but you guys we want you to see everything that we got to see and really appreciate the full storyboard that we put together so if you go in the info box below there is a link to our squarespace website we designed this site ourselves we put the photos up there ourselves squarespace of course is how we have been empowered to share our vision in a clean professional 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