“I’m so used to seeing my photos ending up everywhere (on news sites that shall not be named…), so my plan was to choose everything Justin and I love and that makes us feel good: if other people don’t really like it, I don’t care, because it was about
us,” she noted.
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But something that Olivia also wanted to be transparent on was her hope for others not to feel any amount of pressure to conform to what some weddings on Instagram and Pinterest look like in this day and age.
“I know it’s quite overwhelming planning a wedding and looking at other people’s events and thinking, ‘Oh, God, I have to have that’. I was very lucky that in the position I’m in, the dress I wore I don’t get to keep that: I give it back to the brand,
as they wanted me to wear it for that kind of reason.”
She continued: “I would hate for anybody to compare their wedding plans to mine and feel pressured to have everything that we had: I think weddings are such a personal thing. On social media, you are seeing the very best parts of the wedding.”
Olivia also was upfront about costs.
“The tricky thing is we really did pay for 95 per cent of our wedding. And I think people get confused because I tag so many businesses in the photos, but I’m tagging them because they did an amazing job. There were certain aspects like the dresses where
I was gifted things. And I acknowledge that’s a lucky position to be in. I just wanted people to know the background behind it,” she shared.