THEY SAY THAT IT’S ALL IN THE DETAILS, SO I’LL GIVE YOU ALL THE DETAILS.
Give us an armload of your old, new, borrowed, and blue details and be prepared to see what we come up with. We’ve been caught hanging dresses from chandeliers and throwing 3 inch heels in the air. We have done some pretty crazy things over the years. And speaking of crazy things, here are a few of my favorite stories regarding wedding day details:
Story #1: Picture this. We are outside of Austin, right off of Lake Travis, and preparing for the cake cutting. I go in to the adjust the cake for optimal lighting and background arrangement just as I have done millions of times before only to watch in horror as the delicate, spinning glass topper … topples off of the cake and onto the concrete floor. Tears fill my eyes as I realize what has just transpired and I look up to see that the bride and groom, too, have witnessed this debacle. But that’s not all my friends. I hear the click of a camera, assuring me that one of my assistants has managed to document this moment and I know I will have the joy of reliving this all over again the following week when I edit the photographs.
So what happened next? The bride got a brand new-in-box, Double Heart Spinning Precious Moments Cake Topper delivered to her door about a week later thanks to Ebay (and several hours of weird google searches). The bride ended up laughing and saying “O, you didn’t have to worry about it, my mom paid a penny for it!” Let’s just say the seller on Ebay called it “rare” and “hard to find”, so she now owns what I think should become a future family heirloom!
Story #2: This story finds us in Fort Worth at the bride’s parent’s home. It starts with three photographers standing in the kitchen, divvying up the details when my second shooter meekly announces she has lost the earring back to the brand new earrings that the groom has just gifted his future bride a mere hour before. Now, there are three of us on our hands and knees on the kitchen floor, pretending that everything is just perfectly fine and this is just a thing that wedding photographers do. My second shooter is almost in tears as we start trying to figure out what we will do next — and just as I am about to go to the bride with the news, our lovely assistant raises her hand in triumph and screams “I GOT IT!” to which the bride’s dad asks “You got the shot on the floor?”. Nervous, awkward giggles all around.
Story #3: Ok, let’s get out of Texas for this one. It’s a perfectly tropical evening in Cancun, Mexico and I’m using the centerpiece decor on a cocktail table to balance the wedding rings. We are on an outside deck and can hear the waves crash nearby, the sun has just set over the water. What could possibly go wrong? Only the ring rolling off the table, bouncing and falling straight through the slats in the deck. So then begins the scramble to get under the deck with a candle, without burning down the deck and alerting the whole world to this amazing new predicament. This was the completely unlivable period of time before cell phones had flashlights apps standard, my friends. Don’t worry, the ring was retrieved, nothing was burned down in the process and we stay away from decks and their evil slats whenever possible.
So yeah, maybe you don’t really want to hand me all of your details.
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