Bill's Blog

It’s only natural that after a blog about engagement photos, then bridal photos, that you’d see a blog about wedding photos. Yes, the crazy kids are married now, and what a wedding it was!!! Way to go, Jess, Mom, and JR! Sheree and I see quite a few weddings, and it’s great to see an event planned with great care.

The food was delicious [good enough that I stopped to eat . . . I RARELY eat when I'm working a wedding], the flowers were amazing, the venue was perfect, great music . . . it was quite an affair!  Only one thing tried to dampen the day . . . the rain.

Everytime Sheree and I shoot a wedding, we can’t help but think back to our own wedding day.  Seeing a young couple about to start a new phase in life is exciting, nostalgic, fun . . . .   Sheree and I always laugh at ourselves.  On one hand, it seems like a few weeks ago when we wed, but moreso, it feels like we’ve always been together [March 2010 will be 10 years].  I’m sure if you ask Sheree, it feels like AN ETERNITY that she’s been with me. 

I guess that I am getting older, because weddings are starting to have another meaning to me.  Not only do I look back to my own wedding, now I look to the future to 3 other weddings–my own kids’.  I laugh to think about my goofy boys in tuxedos, sweating and nervous as their groomsmen heckle.  I wonder where the venue will be, and pray that I totally love the girls about to enter the family.  Maybe I’m old-fashioned, or sexist, or whatever,

. . . but I don’t laugh when I think about Bella’s wedding. That, for whatever reason, seems like a terrible day to me.  I hate to think of the day when I ask her, “Who’s your number 1 fan?!” and she doesn’t answer “Daddy!!!” Yet I still hope that someone else is her number 1 fan [though I'll always be the original fan, and the first man to hold her].

With every wedding, there is always one or two things that stand out in my mind, and with Jessica’s, it was obvious to me.  I’ve known Jess and her parents for several years now.  She’s the only child.  While we were shooting, one of those beautiful, tender [heart-breaking for me!] moments unfolded.  If there’s one photo that captures the wedding for me, a dad who’ll one day have to give his daughter’s hand away, this was the one.