Image: Joy On the Beach On the Morning of the Wedding — kenne (Photo Set)
Five Days On the Outer Banks — Part II: The Wedding
By the morning of the weeding, the weather remained the same, so it didn’t take long to decide on moving the planned beach wedding inside. Inside, the wedding would overlook the beach, still providing an attractive backdrop for this very special event. Obviously, this was not a bad tradeoff since nature’s early spring conditions would provide many challenges to participants in a beach ceremony. The move, however, meant that the expected images of the wedding on the beach would not be captured for future memories, unless creativity was allowed to prevail.
White folding chairs were arranged for approximately thirty guests, with the cello and violinist placed to the right rear of the great room over looking the beach. Jason and I discussed a few last minute details in the ceremony before starting the wedding procession down the abbreviated isle, when as if on cue, the sun began to break through the grayish sky. This being my first opportunity to conduct a wedding ceremony, and after stumbling a few times in the beginning, I was quick to lay claim to having orchestrated the sun’s timely arrival. Such a moment has to be an omen!
It was easy to tell that the sun’s timely arrival would be short lived. So, after the ceremony the wedding party and immediate family headed out to the beach to capture those much-anticipated images. Although the sun was providing some additional heat, the wind was picking up out of the northeast, but not enough to stop our capturing those much wanted beach photos. I spent time moving around capturing the more “situational” photos of the photographers taking photos, and others watching the wedding couple as they continued to brave the cold northeast wind off the ocean.
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