A blog, by any other name

I must first apologize for the lack of picture goodness with this blog. The routine is to shoot an event, edit photos, post a blog about the event with photos.

Stories with pictures are always cooler.

But I mentally can't retain everything that happened yesterday for that long...so it's all coming out now.

First and foremost, Teresa Martin we love you! (and Matt-Matt) Teresa was the wedding coordinator for Nikki and Matt's wedding yesterday, and the whole wedding went beautifully. The decorations, the transition of a huge room full of chairs into a beautiful candlelit ballroom with dining tables and dance floor..in a matter of minutes...everything was perfect. And for the occasional doofus with a death-wish that attempted to inform her how they thought the wedding should be run, I'm not entirely sure what happened to those people.

We arrived early at the location and helped Teresa set up, because we're cool like that. One of my tasks was transferring 10 goldfish into these really cool little bowls that were going to sit on the tables. A really neat and different idea...and so I did. Same temperature water (really), everything was great. 10 little fishies, swimming around, loving life in their new little bowls.

And then they died. I'm not really sure what happened, but I killed all 10 goldfish. It had to be the water. Branson, Missouri water...not the greatest. Thankfully we had backup floating candles, but I wasn't allowed to put those in. I would have managed to kill those as well most likely....

Skip ahead to the middle of the ceremony. I'm in my sniper-hiding-under-the-chairs position at the front of the room, scanning the faces of the groomsmen through my lens...and I notice this one guy is seriously just not looking good at all. We're talking, pasty white, sweaty, glazed look. Pretty much me on our wedding day. And then, the magic happens and I see the guys on either side of him grab his jacket to prop him up, and down he goes. He's down for a few minutes, then back on his feet.
This was during a song someone was singing, and when the soloist finished, the gentleman that fainted said " That was quite a song".......cue laughter and applause from the crowd. Back to the vows, 5 minutes later the guy goes down again, this time he's propped back up in a chair and finished the wedding sitting down.

We seriously have to shoot that guys wedding.....

Towards the end of the night, when the really beautiful cake had been cut (and eaten..*cough*..), "Ice, Ice, Baby" had been rapped on the dance floor, and I had updated as many friends as possible in a mad and frantic text while eating....the most wonderful thing happened; I danced with my beautiful, wonderful, sweet and totally amazing best friend/partner in crime/co-conspirator/make out buddy/baby-momma/business partner/wife.....and I couldn't have asked for a more perfect end to a perfect wedding.

Nikki and Matt we love you guys and wish you all the best in the world. And Teresa, I'm sending you a box of Goldfish crackers.

B