Most memorable wedding moment

I was recently interviewed by Delaware Bride Magazine editor Kaytie Dowling for a short blurb on wedding photographers in Delaware. One of the questions was, "what was your most memorable moment at a wedding?" Now, I was talking to her from Disney World, so my mind wasn't focused on weddings at the time and I couldn't come up with anything that jumped out at me. Naturally, I came up with a few things AFTER I hung up the phone, so I thought I'd share them here.

1. I had a couple from Ireland hire me for their wedding in Ocean City. We emailed back and forth, talked on the phone, etc. but I hadn't met them until the day of the wedding. I was talking to some of their family members at the reception and found out they lived in California and Colorado. So I asked why they chose to have their wedding in OC since nobody was from here. I thought maybe they had met while working in OC as students or something romantic like that...nope, Maryland was a central location between Ireland and California! They figured if everyone had to travel, they might as well meet in the middle!

2. I photographed another wedding for a Kansas City couple who used to live near DC. They wanted to have their wedding in Ocean City since they spent a lot of time there. This was another couple I didn't meet until the week of their wedding, but we had spoken on the phone quite a bit and I had a very difficult time understanding their thick Ethiopian accents. They explained they were going to have a traditional Catholic wedding with Ethiopian customs interwoven into the ceremony. I didn't think anything of it, but when the ceremony started, not a word of it was in English! At the reception, I had to ask people what the DJ was announcing so I didn't miss anything. I REALLY felt bad for the videographer, I couldn't imagine trying to edit footage from two cameras and not be able to listen match the dialog from one tape to another.

That's it, the most interesting stories from the weddings I've done so far. Thankfully, there hasn't been anything too dramatic that's worthy of an episode of Bridezillas.