Kathryn and Kevin

November 4, 2006

Wedding: Holy Family Parish, Fond du Lac WI

Reception: The Ramada Inn, Fond du Lac, WI

If you are frequent reader of my blog, you might either be my mother, a potential client, or someone who is planning their wedding who has already hired me . That’s not to say that sometimes my former clients read my blog, they do. In general, I keep people on my email list for about 6-8 months after their wedding. At that point, I assume my inane ramblings about other people’s weddings have grown cold.

I had a really fun engagement session with Kathryn and Kevin in Chicago, and I posted here about it. And somehow, people saw it, loved it, and for the last few weeks my 2007 clients have been waiting with baited breath to see Kathryn’s and Kevin’s wedding. And that just amuses me and thrills me. I’ve gotten more emails from people that don’t know them wondering when their slideshow would be online than I have from actual people who KNOW them.

For the record , the wedding was beautiful. Kathryn was radiant. Her big sister was in my estimation the PERFECT big sister, being supportive, saying all the right things, not swearing up a storm like she wanted to when the buttons of Kathryn’s Vera Wang kept popping off while buttoning up the dress, assuring Kathryn that it was all FINE, she looked gorgeous, the dress was gorgeous, everything was perfect as she sweated off all of her make up getting that dress buttoned up in the very very ugly church basement with the yellow walls.

Yellow walls. With florescent lighting. Now, part of my job is to overcome these obstacles. It really is. It’s not YOUR problem as a bride that your church where you are getting dressed for the most important day of your life has the worst ever EVER combination of colors in the world. Yellow walls. That makes people appear yellow in photos. Florescent lights reproduce GREEN in photographic images. Yellow and Green skin tones…wow , pretty. But just like your boss pays you to figure it out, it’s my job to walk into a situation like that and begin to strategize how I am going to overcome it. That’s what you pay me for.

And Kathryn, dear Kathryn, turned to me when we walked down into the basement and said “ If these getting ready shots have to be all have to be in black and white, you know I totally understand”

Which made me work my ass off to get some color shots. Okay, there are like three, but there are there! I love my brides.

Also a thrill for me for this wedding was getting to work again with, in my humble opinion, the best wedding videographer in the Milwaukee area, Joel Peregrine of www.weddingfilms.com I like him so much I am totally pimping him out right here on my blog. He didn’t pay me, not even with beer, and you all know how easy I am after a few beers. He’s not only one of the most talented video guys in the area, he’s so nice you wish you would have married him 5 minutes after you meet him. You can see the teaser video of Kathryn and Kevin’s wedding at www.WeddingFilms.com/kathrynandkevin . He’s one of the vendors that I can truly say to clients, if ”I was getting married tomorrow, this is who I would hire for video”

So for all of you who have been waiting to see “The wedding of the century for the Chicago couple Fond du Lac style” I present to you the wedding slideshow of Kevin and Kathryn….who are truly one of the nicest couples you could meet.