Wedding – Michelle and Mike
by TimKou on Jan.25, 2010, under Photography, Wedding
January 12, 2010
This wedding was special, and very unique on so many different levels. The fact that the bride was the second of twins was only the beginning of it.
The planner, Theresa, sent my brother a Facebook message asking if I’d be available to shoot a wedding the following week. On a Tuesday. While not completely unheard of, Tuesday weddings are not very common. Since the day was open, I gave her a call to let her know I’d sit down and meet with her.
We met on the Thursday before the wedding at a Caribou Coffee, and she told me about the whole scheme. And a scheme it was. In fact, this was a “surprise” wedding for the bride. Well, the bride knew she was getting married, but she didn’t know that it wasn’t going to be in the circuit court like she thought.
Theresa was literally planning this entire event in a single week. She booked a private dining room at a Holiday Inn where the ceremony and reception would take place, she made the catering arrangements, found an officiant on Rent-a-Rev (who had apparently officiated the bride’s twin sister’s wedding), invited all of the guests to the location, and decorated a cake for the bride.
The result was one extremely surprised and happy bride, and a one-of-a-kind wedding opportunity.
Shooting in the small space had it’s challenges, and lighting was extremely scarce. But, overall, we were all happy with the results of the photography, and Michelle had a real wedding at a real location, officiated by a real reverend, with a real reception and a real cake, and it was all captured by a real photographer.
