Wedding Tableaux

The relief of not being an official wedding photographer is palpable, even for someone who has never been an official wedding photographer. It leaves one free to shoot as one wishes without worrying whether you're making your customer, relative or friend happy. The young lady to the bottom left of the frame was the hired hand. She had a better seat than me and therefore no good excuse for missing anything. Therefore, I can imagine her embarrassment when my wife's nephew and his new bride ask why she missed them exchanging rings. I hear, in my mind's ear, her answer: "Yes, I meant to get that shot, but I was chimping to check my histogram and all and I simply missed it. Can I get a do-over?" Better her than me. I enjoyed the wedding (congratulations to Jamie and Andrea!) without worrying about such issues. This would be the third time that I've shot photos at the wedding of one of my sister-in-law's kids and, for some reason, I always, somehow, manage to get her back in my images from the ceremony. No matter. They had the pro who I captured hard at work in this image. Fortunately, unlike Bob Dylan at the wedding of the Senator's son, it wasn't "just my luck to be discovered without a ticket beneath a truck."