I’d like to announce that I’m stepping down from my longtime role of Artistic Director at Resharing My Wedding Photos On Facebook. Resharing My Wedding Photos On Facebook has been my absolute dream company for eight years now, and I’ll forever be grateful for my time there. It was a tough decision to resign from shamelessly plugging images of myself looking my most beautiful on the best day of my life, but something I finally felt ready to do.
Back in 2018, before I had accepted my self-appointed role, I was just a fresh newlywed who had received a sneak preview of her wedding photos from her photographer. I had never spammed any photos, let alone my wedding photos, on any social media platform. But from the very moment I shared that sneak preview and got my first cut of commission in the form of online public praise, I was ready to hit the ground running.
The professional experience I gained these past eight years has been unmatched. I learned how to connect my wedding photos and myself to any and every event and holiday, whether it was me and my husband’s dating anniversary that we don’t technically celebrate anymore, my sister’s wedding where I couldn’t find a good one of me, an unprompted shout out to one of my bridesmaids who doesn’t speak to me anymore, Hilary Duff’s announcement of a new album even though her music means nothing to my marriage, the day of my routine root canal, or even Flag Day.
I even weathered industry changes while in my role. Instagram and TikTok rose in popularity while Facebook was often left behind. I was forced to pivot. I shifted gears. I adapted. I went from not only flooding everyone’s Facebook feed with my wedding photos, but doing the same on Instagram. On TikTok. On Threads. On LinkedIn. On MySpace.
I learned that while time marches on and things change, my ability to repost my wedding photos on Facebook and any other active social media platform doesn’t. And that where there’s a platform, there’s a way to inundate everybody with the same photos of me looking like an ethereal angel again, and again, and again.
I even got the opportunity to spearhead several large projects, like being the sole person responsible for keeping #ThrowbackThursday alive. While this was a huge undertaking, it was also a passion project. And passion projects come easy when you believe in your product, especially when the product is me looking painstakingly hot but in a very natural and effortless way.
I want to send a very special thank you to my team who have made Reposting My Wedding Photos on Facebook so enriching: Hailey Mason, my wedding photographer at Capture the Moment Photography, who left photography in 2020 and is now on her fourth subsequent side hustle since her departure. Hailey was the one who first connected me to Sharing My Wedding Photos On Facebook, which eventually led me to finding my role at Resharing My Wedding Photos On Facebook. Thank you, Hailey, for taking a chance on me and using my photos as marketing for your now-failed business, and in turn inspiring my own.
To my aunt, Lisa McMahon, my college roommate, Sarah Baker, and Udkewlaj Machanidia, who I can only assume is a bot: Thank you for continuing to like my wedding photos on Facebook every single time I post them. Going from a whopping 318 likes when I very first posted the sneak preview pictures back in 2018, to only a handful of likes eight years later is hard, but it reminds me who’s there for me through it all. It’s all of you.
And myself, for pushing forward. There were times where this role was challenging, time consuming, and demanding. Will people think I’m self-centered? Do I look desperate? Has too much time passed? I even considered getting divorced and re-married just to re-engage my clientele. But all of these thoughts were only temporary, because as soon as I got the notification that Udkewlaj had liked the photo of me looking over my shoulder on the steps of a church I haven’t stepped foot in in eight years, I knew that I never had to worry, because I had my team behind me.
I want to thank everyone again who made my time at Resharing My Wedding Photos On Facebook so memorable. It was an honor being a part of something bigger than myself, making myself seem bigger and more important than I actually am.
But now, onward and upward! I’m so excited to share that on Monday, I will be stepping into a new role of Creative Director at Resharing My Newborn’s Baby Photos On Facebook.