Wedding Date on Apr 21, 2018

Josee & Corey had their Mississippi wedding at a family home, which was absolutely fitting with all of the family details she included in the wedding. I wanted it all to come across in the video, from family helping set the table to the restored chandelier hanging over the dance floor that belonged to Josee's late father. This wedding day was full of emotions and so personal for Josee & Corey. Corey’s sister passed away a few weeks before the wedding; I remember Josee emailing me that they weren’t sure if they were going to have a wedding afterall. But Josee’s thoughtfulness and attention to detail really helped keep a warm, family feeling resonating throughout the day. There’s no one better to explain the wedding day than Josee: I was told numerous times that renting farm tables and upright chairs wasn’t necessary (I was also told that about a wedding video, but it's the best decision I made regarding that day -- next to saying “I do” to spending the rest of my life with Corey). I wouldn’t budge on either and I feel like the long table was such a statement. It was the FIRST time most of Corey’s family and my family met, and we had been dating about seven years when we got married. So I felt like one really long table for the dinner wasn’t just a design statement, but more about everyone close to Corey and I being together for the very first time- as one big group of family and friends. Corey’s sister passed away three weeks before our wedding. His family was so strong through it all, and it was a beautiful thing to see my family and his come together to make our day as perfect as it could possibly be. In spite of the intense pain of losing someone as dear as Corey’s sister so close to our wedding it was truly the definition of family that made that day happen. A little fact about the chandelier: That was actually my dad’s. Him and my mom fixed up an old victorian house in a tiny town in Southern Illinois when I was little (he was a carpenter). that hung in the wraparound stairwell. He passed away when I was seven years old, and it went to my grandmother. It hung in her stairwell to the upstairs for about 16 years. When they took it down it had about that many years of dust on it. Since I couldn’t have a father daughter dance with him and he wasn’t there to walk me down the aisle, it was the one thing sentimentally that I really wanted.