I was so lucky to have had a very smooth engagement.  For thirteen months, planning went off without a hitch…flowers, the dress, the food, the guest list…it was one easy street after another!  Until four days before our wedding…when all of those lovely, wrinkle-free days went straight out the window.  It started with a water pipe bursting at our reception venue, resulting in an enormous hole the size of a swimming pool where the front door should have been.  Awesome!  After that, our tuxedos arrived with the wrong pieces and in the wrong colour.  A couple of days later [as in, an hour before our ceremony], the new tuxes were handed delivered to my groom…just in time!  And just when I thought I had everything wrapped up, our priest got in a car accident…in front of us…ambulance appearances and all.  We didn’t know until my arrival at the church if he was going to be well enough to do our ceremony.

Yes…that last week of being engaged was a blast!

At the end of the day though, everything was wonderful and beautiful and came together perfectly.  And that’s the thing about the weddings…it’s easy to get caught up in all the details.  It’s easy to forget that – as long as you end the day being married – then everything happened just as it should have!

Tomorrow is Julie and André-Denis’ wedding!  In sixteen hours, I’ll be showing up with my camera to document this beautiful union that has been a very long time in the making!  But first, there is the week before the wedding…the time in which you hold your breath in hopes that those last little details fall into place before the big day rolls around.

In this case, the glitch was the engagement pictures!  For weeks on end, we emailed and planned and anticipated…and for weeks on end, the weather unleashed its wrath upon us and forced us into hibernation one scheduled day after another.  But we persevered [as all people involved in weddings do!] and at long last, five short days before the wedding…we gathered together – along with their adorable little man – before a lovely sunset and captured our long awaited images!

And that’s kind of how weddings work…nail biting to very end…but always worth the wait…