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#blackouttuesday 🖤🖤🖤
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The thing with racism in America is...once you REALLY see it, you can’t unsee it. It’s like a light gets flipped on and evil is finally illuminated. I have not always seen racism. Here are some of the moments that made me see... When the protest in Charlottesville happened 3 years ago, David and I grieved. We talked and talked about what it meant for this to happen so close to home. And eventually, I asked him if we could have a break from talking about it. I was “emotionally exhausted.” It was weeks before I realized that it was because of my skin color that I could choose to take a break. My husband and my black and brown friends can not take a break. Or when I started dating David and I watched people say ignorant things to him over and over again - things like “I just think of you as white” or pointing out when he was eating sushi as being “so Asian.” And I cringed every time as I realized I said the same type of stupid things to my friends who weren’t white in high school. I thought I was joking, when really, I was using my privilege to alienate. Or when I led a book study on emotional healing and a group full of young women of color confessed they all had deep, deep wounds from the way they’d been targeted, demeaned, or stereotyped because of their race. I was both broken and shocked for them because I had been so terribly blind. Or when my sweet son has had microaggressions spoken over him. And I’ve had to realize over and over again that he’ll be treated differently because of the way he looks. In those moments, my momma bear instinct comes out - I call racism, racism because it affects my own flesh and blood. I want to have that response to racism no matter who it affects. And especially, when my black friends have shared their fear. The precautions they have to take just living their every day lives. Conversations with their kids I’ll never have to have. Choosing where they go when and how they’re dressed in fear that they could end up “fitting a description.” At the beginning of Covid, when verbal and physical attacks were breaking out against Asian Americans, I was afraid for my family. (Cont in comments!)
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Another quarantine wedding in the books 🎉 David and Lauren were literally beaming, giddy, over the top so in love all day long 🥰 They were surrounded by just their immediate family and a Zoom audience. They both cried during their vows and gripped hands tightly as they walked back up the aisle...finally MARRIED 🙌 These two! I cannot wait to share them with you ❤️ #kaitlynphippsphoto
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Sunrise is always worth it ☀️ And so is letting my couples laugh and laugh rather than stiff pose, pose, pose 😍 Hugh and Rene are the sweetest together - so giggly, so kind and gracious, so in love ❤️ They have so much fun together and so many segments of our morning dissolved into laughter ✨ Legit can’t wait to sheare their love story with you, friends! (hint: it wasn’t fireworks at first meeting 🙃) #kaitlynphippsphoto
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Eight years yesterday! 🎉 Confession: I cried my eyes out on the night of our rehearsal dinner. I didn’t want things to change 😭 I didn’t want the good of life then to be soured by some surprise terror waiting for us in marriage. Turns out surprise joy was all that was waiting ❤️ Don’t get me wrong, there have been hard things and disappointment and other very very hard things, but we’ve had each other in the messy middle 🥰 And there’s also been good things, fun things, and the very best things! (aka our babies ☺️) We were truly just kids when we got married - we had no clue what it was would mean to build a life together 🙃 But praise God we did it anyways! ❤️ Thankful is an understatement ✨ I love this life with you, Jobin 🥰 #phippsiversary
