...we were sitting with the bride and her friends outside our apartments surrounded by Italian scenery. Janine and I were in our pj's after having spent our day travelling from 3am in the morning till 5pm in the afternoon. I know when we got off that bus we weren't exactly our perkiest but we lucked out with the entire wedding party because as soon as we arrived we were looked after until the morning we left.
And what a week it turned out to be!
This however is not a blog post on Kenny and Heather's wedding. That'll come later. This is a major thank you to everyone I was out there with.
If you are my friend on facebook or follow my fb page you may know that I fainted after the ceremony during couple shots. Yup. Even now I can't quite believe it happened. My memories go from mortification to relief because despite fainting on the job it could have been so much more worse. I took all my gear off my back literally moments before it happened. Janine saw my colour change literally seconds before it happened and shouted for me to sit on the ground. Had I been standing I'd have cracked my head open on the cobbles in the fall. So all I have to deal with now is the mortification of it all. If you know me you'll know I try to plan out everything so that should anything ever go wrong on a wedding day I can handle it. I never factored me being out for the count for 10mins during a wedding day.
SO a major thank you firstly to those in the wedding party who got me back on my feet. You all know who you are. Two nurses in a wedding group are defintely very handy! I've never had my camera bag carried for me before so maybe I should faint more often ;) A MAJOR thank you to Kenny and Heather who were amazing throughout. And especially to Janine! You spotted the faint was coming when I was more concerned about throwing up into a plant pot (thankfully I fainted instead!) And I especially need to thank you for the private pep talk that dried up the private tears and got me to take a deep breath, put a smile on to show everyone I was fine and get back into professional work mode. And lastly thank you for being an amazing second shooter and even catching some shots with me in them ;) (you can tell this was after I passed out as I'm carrying a bottle of water as well as snapping! lol)
I can't finish this blog post without adding some glimpses of the amazing day. I still can't quite believe I witnessed these moments.
My first glimpses of the bride on her wedding morning...
Spending time with her on my own while everyone else travelled to Malcesine Castle. I've never put a bride into her wedding dress on her wedding morning. That was such an honor
Arriving by car and then making the rest of the journey to the castle with the bride and her dad on foot through the cobbled streets of Lake Garda...
Thanks everyone for making us feel so welcome and part of your wedding experience. xx
