Growing up in a conservative Christian family in the Midwest, it wasn’t easy coming out. When I did, I’d never imagine the life I’d be living today.

Planning a wedding, while challenging, should not be a time fraught with the fear of rejection. Unfortunately, this is a sad truth for those planning LGBTQ weddings. Should you come out to vendors?

Let me be real with y’all. When I first started my business, I was a full blown imposter. I was as a gay wedding photographer and felt terrified to let people know who I truly was. You see, I began photographing weddings in 2011 – four years before the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Obergefell V. Hodges, that state laws banning same-sex marriage were unconstitutional.