During my final meeting with Carol and Angus I sat as usual to draft up their photography schedule. "Do you want your reception photographed?" I ask predictably. "I don't know" replies Carol, "What do other people do?"
I look up to see Carol's deer-in-the-headlights expression and I can't help but giggle. She replies with a heart filled laugh which distracts me from my "official duties".
My eyes drop back down to the paperwork sitting on my lap. I'm smiling because I've just realised how good this wedding is going to be.Carol replied to most of my questions by asking what normally happens and what others normally do. Her vulnerability partnered with Angus' quiet attentativeness gave highlight to the realness of their love. They were having a wedding, they wanted to do it right, but all that was just detail. The substance, the true importance, the only thing that really mattered to them was that they loved each other and wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.
Here I was being asked to photograph a wedding that wasn't about procedure or ego. It was about two people who united in a common love. Two people who on the 28th of October 2011 only wanted to promise the other, "I do."
