Comprar Claire Penn un drink

Maybe you’re one of my couples or a photographer I’ve mentored or helped in some way and you want to say thanks. Perhaps we’ll be working together in the future and you just want to support me.  Whatever it is, if you’d like to, you can buy me a drink.   Without wanting to go full ‘reality show sob story’… it’s been a hell of a few years. Getting through Covid with no support from the government and still having a business (and my sanity) to show for it, dealing with the backlog of weddings on top of a normal workload and then losing the love of my life to suicide during the busiest year I’ve ever had.  It’s been shit, I’m not going to lie. But I am rebuilding my new life, piece by piece, with the help of my amazing family and friends. And counselling. And let’s face it - drinks. (That’s where you come in!)  I still absolutely love what I do. In fact if it’s possible, I now feel even more passionate about wanting to document people and their love in all its forms.. romantic, platonic, family… it’s all there at a wedding. I knew it before but now I truly know the sheer power of a photograph of someone you love.  So THANK YOU. If you choose to support me in this small but meaningful way, please know that it means the world.  Where the money will go I actually won’t be spending it on drinks at all. (Well maybe one) It will help me fund the £840 I need to be able to plant a wild cherry tree for my fiancé Kev in a memorial forest via the organisation ‘A life for a life’. They plant and maintain the tree and it’s guaranteed for 25 years. So I can go visit him whenever I want and Badger can pee on his tree whenever we go there. ♥️. I have so far scattered a little of his ashes in various places I've traveled to but I also want him to be close to me. I'd like to get wild cherry tree because the park near his home where we used to walk Badger and spent a lot of time during lockdown was surrounded in wild cherry trees and he'd always eat them (sour!) and his boys would pick them a have a cherry fight. Also because BLOSSOM and because the song "Black horse and the cherry tree' by KT Tunstall reminds me of many happy times together. I lost a fair bit of money last year from cancelling weddings to getting cover... I have to be a bit more careful now it's just me.  So I started putting money away for this and it absolutely doesn't need to happen soon - there is no rush. But people have asked how they can help me and couples have asked how they can thank me - and I finally thought, this is how.