When Geoff contacted me a month prior to the event, he let me know they were doing something very different. I had just moved back to Dallas so I was still in the shiny glow of coming home and quite over-excited on the phone. Ok, let’s be serious, I’m always overly excited. Especially on the phone.
Geoff went on to tell me about the small courthouse wedding that he and Emily were having in downtown Fort Worth, followed by an intimate gathering at a local dining establishment. I was definitely on board for something new, having heard my friend-photographers tell stories of these lovely little courthouse weddings. Finding the downtown courthouse was easy. Parking, not so much, so I ended up on the roof top of an office building which ended up proving to be a funny story in getting my car back later.
As Jessica and I walked down the windy halls towards the Justice of the Peace, we high-fived each other, because this was going to be so unlike anything either of us had witnessed.
Two of Geoff’s friends, Emily’s daughter, and the honorable JP rounded out the whole set of people in attendance, making it the smallest, most intimate wedding that I had ever had the honor of photographing. And as the tears of joys streamed down Emily’s face, Jessica and I nodded to one another across the court room and again we thought, this is so unlike anything either of us has witnessed. And it was beautiful.
