Claire + Noah’s wedding took place on a rainy summer day in July. Due to the 2020 Covid pandemic, many brides have been scrambling to rebook their weddings and think outside the box of a normal wedding day celebration. Claire and Noah were no different. After some deliberarty, the couple decided to go their original wedding day plans in exchange for a backyard beachfront wedding with 30 of their closest friends. Although this wasn’t exactly what they had in mind for the big day, they didn’t let that sway them.
After an afternoon of hors d'oeuvres and mingling at Claire’s family home- the couple went their separate ways to get ready for the ceremony. The ceremony took place in one of Claire’s neighbor's backyards that overlooked Lake Erie. This was a place that Claire loved and spent so much of her time during her childhood. Their ceremony symbolized so much meaning for the couple- from celebrating Claire's father to honoring Noah’s Jewish heritage.
I’m so happy to have been a part of this uniquely, beautiful evening celebrating love and a beautiful future!
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Photography: Jillian Barrile Photographer
Ceremony: Lakeview, NY
Florist: Wegmans
Dress: Made by Mom
![BARE is about
Being vulnerable
Getting intimate
Living free
So I want to take THIS week as an opportunity to connect with you outside of the holidays and being bombarded by a million ads and get vulnerable with you.
To ask you…
How can you give yourselves MORE pleasure, DEEPER intimacy, and LESS stress?
Does this look like more time spent in nature or slowly sipping on a warm cup of tea, tasting and feeling every sweet drop on your tongue. Or maybe it's completely changing your perspective from "I have to" to "I get to" when you are doing the chores or tasks you loath. Or, could it be choosing to let go of the friend and family that give you the most drama and heavy heart.
I did just this. Last year, I made a commitment to myself- and it was a really big one!
I decided I would no longer live with the thorn of guilty and shame around my lack of intimacy and sexuality.
Yeah, you might be surprised by that one.
But, this thorn was so cork screwed inside of me that I cried at the thought of it being gone, Bc I had no idea what it would feel like to live without it.
Isn’t that crazy?! It was almost more comfortable to live with the discomfort than to remove it.
WILD
And I’ll tell you now, a year later- that the hardest part of all this was the CHOICE to no longer live with the guilt, shame, and trauma of intimacy and my sexuality.
It took me committing to this YES in order to crack wide open and completely surrendered to my pleasure and desires. All while also removing any of the guilt I carried for being a sexual being.
[Big Deep Breath]
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