When: February 20, 2010
Where: Washington DC Temple
What: Katharine and Steve are Getting Married
Your Mission Should You Choose to Accept It: Manage to get photographs after two blizzards bury the east coast without face planting in the snow or freezing to death!
That’s right. It is 2010 and February and the DC area gets slammed with not one but two major snow storms. These storms pushed our snowfall to the historic levels and shut down the entire metro area. Of course, where got hit the worst? The NW side of town!
After roughly a fortnight of melting, plenty of snow melted yet it was still higher than my knees. Wow, that’s just a lot of snow! Yet nothing will stop two determined photographers from capturing the special day of a beautiful bride and her prince, even if it means tromping through the snow like a lunatic and risking frostbite.
You could tell immediately on arrival that we weren’t the first people attempting to photograph a wedding. The major photo hotspots had little nooks carved out of the tundra for people to stand in and still get pictures of the happy couple with the temple background. Us? Oh no, that’s not good enough. Armed with a tarp and a sheet, we set up a place right in front of the fountain and made our couple tromp through the snow to it. Of course, since it’s wrong to ask someone to do something you aren’t willing to do yourself, that meant we also set off through the snow. I think the highlight of hilarity for everyone was my losing my shoe in the snow and needing to balance on one leg with a camera in each hand while the other photographer tried to fish my shoe out of the icy trap. Oh how I wish I had a photo! Never fear, if one surfaces I will post my shame for all to see. Normally I abhor all photographs of myself, but this? It was just too funny!
That said, I’m sure you don’t really give a care about me nearly planting my face in a mound of snow. After all, I’m fairly unimportant. You are here to see the photos!
Because of the severely limiting snow, we took a lot of photos in the lobby of the Temple. Who knew you could do that? Not us!
Now this is one dedicated bride – she donned her coat, grabbed that skirting, and took off through the snow!
Even her dad was a trooper and brought her bouquet through the snowy wasteland:
But I’d say it was worth it – what do you think?
They might have been a wee bit cold, but they were definitely having some fun…
Here’s the proof that 1. This bride is dedicated and 2. This bride is smarter than yours truly:
Snowboot Bride!
That’s right… she figured with a couple of feet of snow she *MIGHT* just need some sensible shoes instead of pretty dainty princess footwear. She brought herself some snow boots to muck about in the snow and get her dream photos. Not pretty boots with lace like I had for my wedding (hello was I totally channeling Madonna or something?) or sexy hot heeled boots. Nope! Me? I was wearing my nice black chunky heel dress shoes. Yes, I’m definitely glad the other photographer saved my shoe, I love those things! However? Yeah, probably not the best for snow, at least not this much snow!
I think my favourite part of weddings is the tender embraces the couple share:
The cake was beautiful:
But there comes a time in every cake’s life when it must get cut. Now I don’t know what this groom was thinking as his bride waved the cutter about, aiming it right at him:
I’m pretty sure he wasn’t expecting one of his knights…er groomsmen… to shout and stop the cake cutting to present him with…
"That's not a knife! THIS is a knife!"
That’s right… a sword! For as we all know, those cake knives are rather puny. And when we’re talking steel? It’s all about the size, baby!
Now THAT is a cake-cutting!
Best. Cake. Cutting. EVER!
Of course, we then had to go have some fun, because if someone’s gonna bring a sword to a wedding…
Thank you, Katharine and Steve, for letting me share in your magical day! I wish you all the best in your life together.
Love ya you crazy kids!
To see more photos of Katharine and Steve’s magical day check out the slide show or the gallery!
–Have Camera, Will Travel
JS
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