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caren & tim’s jamaican wedding- getting ready
2 hours and counting from the big event. Or so we all thought! Hair and makeup getting done, a few cocktails to calm nerves, dresses being put on, boys getting dressed. And it’s on, baby!
Beautiful, beautiful glowy bride.
And lovely bridesmaids, all in a row.
Here are the rings, one of which I accidentally dropped off the second story balcony into the grass below. Yes, you read that right. It rolled right off the flower, onto the table and right off the balcony between the slats. Freaking out? Yeah, just a little! I saw it land and RAAAAAN downstairs to go get it. It was a little dicey for a few minutes cause I couldn’t find it where I had thought it landed. But thank god, I did find it and brought it back upstairs to the bridal suite all in one piece. It took a good 30 minutes for my heart to stop racing however. And my palms are sweating again just writing this!
It started pouring (really like monsooning) just a very short while before the wedding was scheduled to begin. And the wedding was pushed back about an hour. But they don’t tell you that. They just keep you on hold in the bridal suite, waiting for the phone to ring and for them to tell you it’s time. As the bride said–‘this is bordering on cruel’.
In the meantime I went and found the boys and the rest of the wedding party getting their flowers and hanging out undercover. Oh, and you’ll see the bride’s dad’s new hat make quite a few appearances throughout the wedding pictures.
The handsome groom. Waiting too.
Once we got ‘the call’ and we were on our way to the ceremony (very exiting!) I somehow lost one (yup, just one) flip flop. Couldn’t find it anywhere and neither could the search party I sent out later. Oh well, its a small price to pay for the whole trip to Jamaica.
Ceremony next…
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caren & tim’s jamaican wedding-the rehearsal dinner
Finally, starting to get the wedding pictures edited and bloggable.
For the few of you who don’t know, Caren & Tim asked me to shoot their wedding in Jamiaca (and no, not in Queens. The actual island!) More on that in the upcoming posts from the wedding- and there will be quite a few of those!
Just starting with the rehearsal dinner today, where everyone got together to begin the celebrations and a lot of guests got to meet eachother for the first time. Since everyone was travelling from all over and the bride and groom have family and friends from, like, everywhere (Canada, Chicago, New York, etc) it was a nice way to start things off.
It was pouring the evening of the dinner (as it poured every day we were in Jamaica- except one. But only for a little while each day.) So we mainly just stuck to being inside the restaurant- but there was lots of fun and happiness in there anyway!
Coming up next… getting ready for the ceremony. Tune in soon for those.
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nancy & jesse- part 4 {the reception}
Working til around 2:30am last night (or this morning, depending on how you look at it) when an uploading glitch forced me to go to bed since I couldn’t do any more work. But I finally finished this afternoon, so here’s the last of the wedding.
A big thanks to Sue who second shot the wedding with me. It was our first time working together and it went really well.
Not just because I like things in order, I love putting the reception up last in a wedding series of posts. Everyone has let their hair down so to speak, and is ready for some fun and silliness.
First, there was the big entrance with the first introduction as husband and wife…
And the first dance.
Then the speeches, eliciting a bunch of laughs and tears. For everyone. Followed by some bubbles in lieu of champagne. Still so bubbly!
Then, time to partay!
This little man was all about the dancing. And so was the bridesman. Alllll about the dancing.
The bouquet toss. Guess who caught it (she seriously came out of nowhere!)
Finally, a little cake (loved the polka dots!)
And a bit more dancing and smooching to close out the perfect day.
Thanks so much Nancy and Jesse for letting me capture your day. I hope you are always as happy as you were at your wedding!
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nancy & jesse- part 3 {the portraits}
Thanks for being patient (yet again) while I worked on this batch.
It was a rainy day so all shots had to be done inside in a pretty small area near the windows (you know I love my natural light) but we pulled it off, and I think pretty well!
The wedding party looking pretty fierce!
Groom and his parents (love the tears in their eyes). Don’t worry, I got a few tear-free.
The bride and groom got sneak peek of their reception and I tagged along.
The bride’s father passed a while back, but he was there on the wedding day in more ways than one.
You guys are just fabulous! Candids are always my favorite but the posed ones rock pretty hard too.
Reception up next- in a day or two.
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nancy & jesse- part 2 {the ceremony}
You’ll have to excuse the lack of narrative but it’s really late right now while I’m posting this and have to get to bed for a shoot in the morning.
The ceremony was beautiful and so personal (which is just the best! Just ask John- one of our officiants had a bunch of our info wrong at our wedding) as their officiant knows both of them so well.
The groom teared up quite a bit during the ceremony (can we get an awwwww?) and I love the way he looked at Nancy during the ceremony.
Yay! Married!!
Coming up next (may not be tomorrow, theres a lot to edit) will be the portraits. Stay tuned…