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The photographer is set. Here's the website: www.keeganphoto.com. I especially like the one I call "The Flying Bridesmaids". You'll know it when you see it. His rates were in the same range as the others, he hit it off with BD and GW, and there are two people taking pictures, him and his wife. They've been at it for years, but also do many other shoots besides weddings. There are some neat examples of them on the site. They said they only do 20 or so weddings a year, as opposed to well over ten times that for another photographer my two ladies visited. When do you have time to work with the photos and assemble them for the album? I suppose you get good at it, but to me, that's more of an assembly line process than a personal touch.

The other photog was ... interesting. A "limp spaghetti" handshake, a house that smelled of not-so-recent cooking, and an extremely poor personality. Not to mention the 250-plus wedding shoots per year. GW and BD were underwhelmed, to say the least. BD's succinct description was "disgusting".

Oh, I have a request for thoughts and prayers for nice weather on August 10th. Not too hot, not too windy, reasonable amounts of sun. Not in the 90's, no thunderstorms, nothing like that. I want to get my order in early with the deity of your choice, whatever you conceive him to be ("Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin").

gsabc wrote:Oh, I have a request for thoughts and prayers for nice weather on August 10th. Not too hot, not too windy, reasonable amounts of sun. Not in the 90's, no thunderstorms, nothing like that. I want to get my order in early with the deity of your choice, whatever you conceive him to be ("Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin").

Candles lit for good weather on the big day. Will it be an outdoor ceremony? My brother and his wife wed outside...it was beautiful, but it also happened to be the hottest, most windless, day of the year. I have some great shots of everyone trying desperately to look elegant while sweating their arses off. My poor SIL had a helluva time in her big wedding gown, but it led to my favorite picture of the day - taken just after the ceremony:

marrymeflyfree wrote:

gsabc wrote:Oh, I have a request for thoughts and prayers for nice weather on August 10th. Not too hot, not too windy, reasonable amounts of sun. Not in the 90's, no thunderstorms, nothing like that. I want to get my order in early with the deity of your choice, whatever you conceive him to be ("Hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin").

Candles lit for good weather on the big day. Will it be an outdoor ceremony? My brother and his wife wed outside...it was beautiful, but it also happened to be the hottest, most windless, day of the year. I have some great shots of everyone trying desperately to look elegant while sweating their arses off. My poor SIL had a helluva time in her big wedding gown, but it led to my favorite picture of the day - taken just after the ceremony:

Where is the fun in having good weather for the wedding? You want the wedding to be memorable, don't you?

When my lovely wife and I were to be married in the summer of 1993, the Midwest had been inundated with rain. IIRC, there also was a considerable amount amount of snow the previous winter in the moutains, resulting in a high level of snowmelt into the Missouri River basin. In any event, the huge amounts of flooding were threatening our wedding in Kansas City. By Missouri law, you had to pick up your marriage license 4 days prior to the ceremony, so Mary Anne and I were prepared to leave that Tuesday morning to drive to KC for the wedding week. The only problem was that I-29 had been flooded over for several miles around Rockport. Here is where having the Corps of Engineers as a family profession came in handy. My mother was able to track what secondary roads were passable and when the COE and MoDOT thought that the waters would recede enough for cars to pass. With those connections, we made it through the one hour that I-29 was open that afternoon, and we made it to the clerk's office before closing time.

Meanwhile, the Mississippi River also was flooding everything around the Iowa-Illinois border. My best friend since I was 6 was driving in from Wisconsin for the wedding, and it looked questionable whether he would make it. (Luckily, he made it, as did the several other guests who were drivign in from that direction.)

Then, the night before the wedding, a huge rainstorm hit the Kansas City area. Crown Center and the Plaza were flooded. Unfortunately, my in-laws lived out in rural Olathe, Ks, and the nearby lake and creek also rose a great deal, flooding over the road that lead out of their neighborhood. While I was chilling at the hotel, her family was trying to figure out how they would get Mary Anne to the hairdressers and then to the church. There were plans to take a rowboat until they hit a higher point of the road (it is a rising and falling access road), and they would have a car waiting. Thankfully, it was a Saturday night service, and the water receded by late morning/early afternoon.

All of this "what can happen next" actually kept us loose and in good spirits. Of course, we then burst out laughing when it came time for the second reading at our wedding mass. Months prior, we had chosen the reading from Matthew that included these words:

"Everyone who hears my words and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
It rained hard, the floods came, and the winds blew and hit that house. But it did not fall, because it was built on rock.
Everyone who hears my words and does not obey them is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
It rained hard, the floods came, and the winds blew and hit that house, and it fell with a big crash."

(Making it even funnier was the fact that the church was shaped like a fish. )

The "Fish Church" was not air-conditioned, and it probably was over 90 degrees prior to the service. They were setting up the fans, and they asked where we wanted them set up. We decided that it was our wedding, so the two biggest fans (those huge standing fans) should be pointed directly at where the bride would be.