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In this Raven Shutley exclusive, we discuss her unlikely start in photography, challenges that she triumphed along the way and where you can catch up with her next. Her 2024 calendar is filling up quickly. Reserve your session TODAY! Website: https://ravenshutleystudios.co... From Raven Shutley: I got my first wedding photography gig off of Craigslist. It was a second marriage for two 70-year-olds, they only had five guests, and it was a Thursday afternoon. There was no white dress. No cake. No pomp. No circumstance. Next-to-no budget (I think I got paid around $100). It was the best wedding I’d ever been to. And the one that changed my mind about weddings altogether. Before that day, I swore to myself I would never become a wedding photographer. All those cheesy shove-cake-on-your-face moments and family portraits filled with fake smiles? Hell no, not for me. But that wedding? It showed me that a wedding can be whatever you want it to be. That it doesn’t matter how old you are, what size you wear, what ab