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Kalaloch, at sunset.
By this time, about everybody was back in the tent taking care of the business of partying.
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Gabrielle & Eric came all the way from West Virginia to marry about as far west
as they could get, Rialto Beach & out the jetty. In a week on the peninsula they
saw more of it than most of us residents have ever seen. They really need to
move here.
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Sometimes, I think the toasts are the most important part of the whole wedding. Here, they're telling the stories of their life together, what they've been through together. I look around the room & I see people crying, & then laughing harder than they've laughed all year. Tears of laughter, tears of joy. Honest stuff, in front of everyone. Real stuff.
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The plan was to arrange a meeting out by the pond before the wedding, take a few pictures, and then leave them alone for a while. Note the two mothers watching from a distance. This is the advantage of having two photographers. Kay got the mothers while I got the closer views.
Because people tended to scatter a bit, tending to all the details, we never actually got the whole wedding party together. So I put this together. Even though this is more work, I think it's more interesting than if we'd done it the usual way.
Rings over flowers, a standard wedding picture, with a twist.
By doing all the photography before the wedding, they were able to leave the wedding site immediately after the wedding. The carriage ride gave them a half hour together between the wedding & the reception.
The reception was at the Jamestown Tribal Center at the head of Sequim Bay.
They got out of the carriage & went right into their first dance.
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Margo & Neil's wedding was at a cabin on Coyle Peninsula. Think 150 or so people, no electricity.
Bunch of them went for a swim.
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Leaving.
We've seen rice, ( a rarity), birdseed (often), bubbles that work & bubbles that blow right back into people's faces, sparklers that have usually burned out before the couple comes down the aisle, candles, etc. Leah & Steve gave everybody bubbles -- no match for the canned string.
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