First Alarm Photography: Rebecca and Joseph

Rebecca and Joseph were married this past weekend at the Community United Methodist Church and I was honored (and nervous) to photograph their ceremony. Nervous because, well, imagine you were just told that the brother of the groom was a photographer with his own studio! Photographing a wedding is stressful enough and then I find out that a professional photographer is a member of the wedding party. Grrrrrrreat! Sweat forms on the brow and under the arms immediately. Oh no, do I feel palpitations? Crude, I think I am about to have a nervous breakdown. MEDICS!!! Ok, break out the valium salt lick and give me a drink.....doggoneit.....no alcohol allowed in the church. Breathe in breathe out but don't pass out. I got over the nervous breakdown and went about my business as if nothing was wrong. You know, it doesn't really bother me but I just never want to imagine (well I did imagine), let's put it this way, I never want to be told "my family member is a professional photographer and he/she/it said that they could have done better." I had fun and hopefully Becca and Joey like the final results. Here is just a sneak peak of the "hundreds" of images taken.

This was funny positioning ....I wanted a different angle so I ended up in the corner of the coat rack to get this one.

The sun was way too bright but we tried to make due. A few times we waited for the clouds to move across and I snapped the images quickly. Rebecca is a natural poser!

Well the story behind the hiking boots was an interesting tale. While spending 7 months in Africa, Rebecca always wore these boots...no matter how she was dressed. A comment was made while she was there about hoping she didn't wear them with her wedding dress....