Everybody Dance Now

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I feel a little bit bad. I went through all the photos I took at the wedding and there were very few of Abby’s family. In my defense though, I was shooting, not as the wedding photographer but as the Mother of the Groom. I did, however get a few of Abby and her mom on the dance floor. I think these two are very much like each other and I loved watching them together! They cracked me up!

Abby and her brother Paul:

Everybody Dance!

People

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Wedding

My beautiful firstborn family

My Gorgeous Girl

Dad with his namesake, my sweet baby nephew Oliver. I cried when I had to kiss that baby goodbye.

My oldest friend. K’Lynn and I grew up next door to each other. I’m so glad she as here.

One more of Caleb and Hannah and Nora. Because those smiles simply must be seen!

Family Portrait

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If you look really close at the edges you can tell…

That I photoshopped the grandparents out of that photo. It’s a terrible thing to do, I know.

But I really wanted one of Rick and I and the kids for my new header. And I’m sure I’ll change it again when we get the pictures from the photographer, Amy Mason!

Ceremony

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I handed my camera to my nieces and nephews during the ceremony instead of putting my camera in the car. So glad I did.

And It Begins

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Tonight my Dad arrives. Tomorrow many of Josh and Abby’s friends will be here for the rehearsal and then the dinner here at our house in the evening. And then other guests will begin arriving from out of town. We will all get gussied up in our finery and gather at a park on the bay and witness two people we all love as they promise to love and cherish for the rest of their lives.

So much time and energy, money and emotion go into a wedding! We joke about wishing they’d just elope, but truthfully, these Days Long Celebrations are traditions I wouldn’t want to give up.

We celebrate when our favorite sports team wins (and by we, I mean you), we celebrate holidays, some with extreme enthusiasm blowing up neighborhoods for 24 plus hours. We throw parties for birthdays, retirement, graduation…But there’s really nothing like a wedding. There’s nothing else like your children getting married that moves to tears, joy, anxiety, fear, happiness, and dance!

So, Let The Party Begin!

A List

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Rick’s To Do List
BY WEDNESDAY:
Buy Sheet Pans
Pick up airbed
Call and borrow coolers
Pick up lanterns and chairs
Buy flowering plants
Hang white twinkly lights
Take suit to cleaners

ON THURSDAY:
Work your magic on:
5-7 chickens
2 brisket
Andouillie Sausages
Go to rehearsal
Return from reheasal and be in charge

FRIDAY:
Rest
Pick up Suit from cleaners
Party at Boundary Bay

Saturday:
Go over notes and outline for wedding
Print final copies
Dress and get to venue early enough to work out any kinks

My To Do List:
BY WEDNESDAY:
Clean House
Pick Dad up at Train Station. Try to remember what time.

ON THURSDAY:
Make appetizers
Put my ladies to work to make magic on:
The Deck
The Food
The Greatroom

Friday:
Work out
Massage
Mani-Pedi
Party at Boundary Bay

Saturday:
Show up with kleenex

I realize this is in no way equitable.
But I carry all the angst and fretting inside and have meltdowns.
Rick gets it done.
It’s how we roll.

Count Down

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The countdown is on.

One month from yesterday THIS BOY

 

will marry THIS GIRL.

 
And a new FAMILY begins.

30 more days!

Snapshot

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I’m still working on photos from my niece’s wedding, and I’m close to finished. These aren’t necessarily my favorites as far as the “real” wedding photos go, but here are a few casual shots that I really like.

I Do

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On Monday my friend Christine and her man, Steve thought it would be a good day to get married.

They asked Rick if he would do the honors.

Rick asked Steve, ‘Do you?’
Steve said, ‘I do’

Christine said ‘I do, too’.

He gave her a ring.

She gave him one too.

Please kiss…

She fed him cake. Oh so carefully.

He….not so much.

Sign here,

and here.

I now pronounce you….

Mr. and Mrs.

That Was Intense!

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So, two weeks ago I took photos for my brother’s wedding.  I have spent every waking hour that I’m not at work editing photos and getting them ready for Tim and Anna.  I was a little over the top obsessed with them.  But, see, I’m a little over the top obsessed with every picture I take, I’ve just never taken over 1400 of them at one event!  So, I know the wedding wasn’t about me, and that it was about the bride and groom, and yada yada yada…but the truth is, I was SCARED TO DEATH to look at my pictures, to edit them, and to share them with anyone, because frankly, although I know I hide it well in person, I’m extremely insecure about my photography at this point.  So, although I was moved to tears many times through the day watching Tim and Anna, I was still a teensy bit self-absorbed, worrying that I wasn’t doing it good enough.  And truly, the few hundred pictures I deleted will testify to that fact.  But there were a couple hundred others that were decent, and then a small handful that I actually love and feel so proud of and happy that it was me that Tim and Anna asked to do this.  So, see?  It’s about them, but somehow I made this whole paragraph about me.  I know, it’s a gift.  And proof that I have made it through the last two weeks pouring over these pictures and stressing over them, and have come out with my sense of humor still in tact.

The day of the wedding, right after the ceremony, I hugged Rick and holding back tears, I whispered, “I am never doing another wedding, ever again.”  On the way home from Pullman I was making a list of what I’ll need for the next wedding and what I’ll do different.  (don’t worry, Tim and Anna, that wasn’t about you guys at all, you were wonderful, I was just so hard on myself)

All of that to say, here are my favorites from the day:

Anna and her mom Linda

Anna and her sister Bethany

Anna and her bridesmaids approaching the Groom and groomsen

So sweet.

The flower girl didn't want to ruin her pretty shoes

Just pronouned Man and Wife

I love this picture, not because it’s a great photograph, it’s one of the worst, but I love the look on Tim’s face. I can still see the little boy that I remember, so happy and excited he can hardly contain himself.

First Dance

The bride and groom taking a break

I love this one. It says to me, “we’re in this together, just you and I, but all of our people are close by when we need them”.

My handsome brother

Toasting the new couple (mom is front and center)

The Matchmaker!

Have you seen a happier couple?

Saying Goodbye