2021 - Celebrating Wedding Guests, Friends, Family and Wedding Party

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So here's where my stalker skills really come in handy! I always try to focus on wedding guests, friends and family. But I've never thought to create and entire "Best Of Wedding Guests" slideshow before.

I photographed more weddings in 2021 than I have in at least 10 years, maybe even back to pre digital photography. So many weddings, SO many favorites! I had a really hard time narrowing it down past my 500 favorites.

Don't worry, all 500 images aren't in these 4 slideshows, but 2012 was the last time I ended up with two slideshows of favorites, let alone FOUR! It was a year of celebratory gatherings, a sense of accomplishment and perservence for all who attended the wedding. I always take lots of photos of the guests, but this year I stalked them big time. Anyone who made it to a wedding this year needed to be documented. Preferably having fun. And this was easier to do because most weddings were 75-125 guests. Only one went over 200 guests. Gone were the 6-12 people at a wedding which happened a lot during 2020, but still the guest lists were trimmed, wedding party members replaced (or not) and flexibility was the name of the game.

So my goal in 2021 was to try to document ever wedding guest that attended. Some only came for the ceremony and some only came for the reception. I didn't see nearly as many photo booths this year (maybe because of social distancing it didn't seem so fun?), so that meant I needed to step up my game and capture a lot of candid photos of guests.

Dancing pretty much looked like any other year this year. Lots of it, lots of letting loose and lots to capture.

The wedding parties tended to be a bit smaller in 2021 and most bent over backwards to make sure the wedding couple had the time of their lives. One wedding party even passed around a goblet for them all to drink out of at the end of the night in a spontaneous game a "let's test the third wave of Covid". Never got a single call about Covid contacts this year, but statistically it had to have happened. Those that came to the wedding (guests, friends, family, etc.) had made the calculation that attending the wedding was worth risking their lives for. And so I made sure I had lots of photos of them enjoying the heck out of themselves.

Feel free to check out a few of my other favorite wedding images from 2021. I'm pretty sure you'll see what a special year it was.

© Marci Curtis