On Friday after work was Christina and Corey’s wedding. My darn ebay auction for the lightsphere showed up that day finally (I was really sure I wasn’t going to get it at all) but it was too late. Thankfully I bought another one that I did use. I was disappointed in how it handled vertical pictures, the one reason that it appealled to me.
It was a nice short ceremony. I think I was only suppose to stay in one place to shoot according to the pastor but I was all over the place. How the heck am I suppose to get the good shots?
I filled up one card and put in the other as everyone headed for the receiving line. I forgot to format the other card and it was filled with county fair pictures! Between that and the fact I wore a skirt with no pockets, those were my only two glaring mistakes.
After the ceremony, there was a dinner that only family was invited to. I sat next to Corey’s nephew and Christina’s sister and some cousins. The food was wonderful but I couldn’t figure out how the skinny people could finish their plates and I could not. I took more pictures until I was close to running out of card again. Corey must of noticed how tired I was and said I could leave if I wanted to. It was 10:30.
Saturday at 4 was the real reception. We all went. It was at their house and it had a Hawaiian theme. Lots and lots of people there and lots and lots of good and unique food. Some of it unidentifiable. The weather was perfect. Some people were playing beanbag toss or bochie ball. Up at the deck was the Jamba juice guys mixing up smoothies. Inside were some of my co-workers (or former ones) with their babies. Not a whole lot of friends/co-workers were there, mostly family and there was a lot of them. I took about 250 photos that day.
At around 9pm, after the karokee, Corey noticed that I was winding down again and asked if I needed to get Hollace to bed. Things were winding down in general and I think I covered their event pretty well.
Corey and Christina said hold on for a moment and they came back, Corey with a check for $300 and Christina with a new 60gig video iPod for me.
See back when I met with Christina for the details of the day a few weeks ago, I got a feeling she might get me an iPod for shooting the wedding. I wouldn’t tell her how much I would charge. I told her whatever she felt was fair was ok for me as I was just honored I could take part in their special day. I was pretty sure an iPod was in it for me. Then I starting thinking that really they would give me maybe $300 and since that iPod was $400, they would just give me cash for $300. So imagine my surprise when they gave me $300 and the $400 iPod! Yikes.
It was a great time and I think when all is said and done, I will have 400 good pictures for them.
a side note on the ipod. Everyone wants my old one. I haven’t told Sherry yet or Jeff. RAW is not assuming possession of the old iPod and he wasn’t even in the running 😉 Hollace doesn’t want it anymore because she is holding out for Christmas for her own new one. Today in the mail I finally get word about replacing the battery for free that I filled out back in January. Talk about interesting timing!