Randolph Wedding

Malcolm & Latoya were great to work with. The bride was very detailed oriented and knew exactly how she wanted everything to look as planned. She expected all of her plans and visions to be executed like clockwork. Though we all know at weddings people always invite themselves to your wedding. Well this wedding had three mothers in attendance. Mother of the groom, Mother of the bride, & the mother you don’t want to see at your wedding….Mother Nature. Yep, she stuck her ugly head out minutes before the wedding start time.
We all know that it’s a possibility that it may rain, hail or worse…a hurricane may hit. Well luckily we got the lesser of the three evils only rain. But let me see you try to convince a bride that everything is going to be OK. After watching her decorative chair covers get drenched by the summer rain. Having guests and vendors scurry to salvage as much linen and floral arrangements they could.
Being a Floridian, I studied the clouds. I concentrated on rainfall direction and cloud thickness. I convinced Latoya that this rain will pass and you will see the beautiful rays of the sun piercing through the blue skies before you know it.
Within 30 minutes all the chairs had been rearranged as beautiful as before. The first item I rescued from the rain was the candles from the unity candle table. Those things are hard enough to light on a normal day. So I arranged the candles as they were, assisted with the chairs and other things to get the ceremony venue ready for the beautiful bride.
From a photographers perspective I think the rain helped the wedding become more beautiful. The colors were so vibrant after the rain. From the colors in the party, the flowers, the oak trees, and the reddish brick pavement all glowed vibrantly. Everything was beautiful.
So for a day that most thought were going to be ruined by rain and terrible weather, turned out to be one of the most beautiful days I’ve photographed.