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Alice & Carl’s Wedding…!

:: Thursday, July 17th, 2008 @ 6:27 pm

This past weekend we traveled to Charlotte NC to help celebrate the long awaited wedding of our good friends Alice & Carl! Julie and I planned to attend the wedding on Friday evening and then spend all day Saturday in downtown Charlotte doing the ‘tourist’ thing before flying back to DC Saturday night. The wedding ceremony, which was set to begin at 7pm sharp, was held outside on a large patio overlooking a small sunlit forest. It was a little on the warm side, but the slight breeze and covered patio made it much easier on the guests. The beautiful natural backdrop was perfect for an outdoor wedding and made the event very pleasing to the eyes!

Before the ceremony started Julie and I had a chance to visit with Alice’s family and mingle with some of the other guests who we didn’t know. While speaking with one of the guests we found out something very interesting… Alice & Carl had not hired a wedding photographer. It came as a surprise to us at first, but then we realized how much money they were probably saving themselves. Instead they would rely upon the guests to take photos of the wedding / reception and then use what was sent to them via the internet for their wedding pictures.

Actually I really liked the idea! If I had it to do over again, I wouldn’t have hired the photographer we used for our wedding (we really hated the final prints she sent us… she just Photo-shopped them to death!) Instead we had two other professional photographers at our wedding (friends of ours) that shot absolutely fabulous pictures for us all night! I wish I could have shot my wedding myself, but I was too busy having fun and being the Groom!

Anyway, to make a long story short, we had a great time and at least half of the 500 pictures I shot turned out awesome! Carl has asked me to keep the ‘personal’ wedding pictures private for now. Once Carl and Alice have proofed the finished pictures (and given their permission) I will post a slideshow and a link to a secured gallery on my Smugmug site where the professional, high quality prints will be available for purchase by friends and family.

Congratulations Carl & Alice!!!!

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