The outside corners and the middle photos of this collage are invitations to all the events that surrounded the wedding, from Katherine's bachelorette party, the rehearsal dinner, and a little note to the bridesmaids.  Since most of the people who attended had to travel pretty far to come to the wedding (the couple had wanted to get married on the beach), they had a second reception back home that all the people who could not make the long trip could come to and celebrate.  The pic in the 3 o'clock position is of a bucket of sparklers to help send off the couple after a night of dancing, at the 6 o'clock is a bucket of paintbrushes to help get the sand out from in between the toes after the seaside reception and at 9 o'clock is one of the bridesmaid's gorgeous Gerbera daisy bouquet.

My favorite shot of the day:

After doing the family shots, I wanted to take a photo of the whole wedding party, however, the sheer size of this group made posing on the beach a bit of a challenge!  I couldn't do a very 'magaziny' arrangement because there were just so many people, and the sun was so bright that it would have looked silly.  Luckily, this group of family and friends were so fun and vibrant that when I asked them to hold hands and jump, this was what I got.  It was brilliant!  Here's a cool factoid: check out the bridesmaid that is the fourth from the left.  This is Katherine's sister, who is a dancer.  When I was going through the photos, I realized that she had somehow turned herself inside out and made half her body disappear during this jump- extremely impressive.

Easily the most fun and spin-filled father-daughter dance I've ever witnessed:


Okay, next, during the reception, a group of the bridesmaids asked if I would take a picture of them.  I said, no problem, put the camera up to my eye and clicked.  I have no idea if this was planned by the four or not, but I don't imagine it could have been since I seriously did not take more than 3 seconds to compose and snap the shutter:

Now this is truly hilarious:  When it came time for the garter-retrieving ceremonies, Jay went searching like Elmer Fudd hunting for wabbits.  Although in the photo we are unable to see Katherine and Jay's faces, I about die laughing every time I look at the 3 girls in the top left corner- their expressions are absolutely priceless!

Thank you, Katherine and Jay, for allowing me to be a part of your special day.  And a huge thanks to Anne, for making me feel at home on your daughter's wedding day and for sending me photos and the book- I'm about halfway into my Curly Girl Journey ;)