Liz and Jamie's wedding 6/13/09

When life serves you lemons, you make lemonade. And that we did on Saturday! We had a torrential downpour of rain, yet this was one of the happiest brides we've ever had. It was a real pleasure watching Liz all day, smiling and laughing all day - this rain didn't matter one iota. Heck, she was even laughing walking under umbrellas (which we needed many) into the church at the North and Southampton Reformed Church in Churchville. It was contagious to everybody else too as we all had a terrific day! We met Liz and her family at a Pine Crest Bridal Show a while back, and we had an instant connection with them from day 1. We were happy their day was here at last! Liz and Jamie were in love all day long - it was great to witness through the camera! We had the patio of the church to do some romantic shots of Liz and Jamie - we were quite thrilled we had that available (even though the rain was pounding all around us!). People had a hard time getting to the church and to the reception as 7 inches of water came down in this immediate area and flooded out many of the local roads. Everybody made it to the reception though - nobody would have missed it! Pine Crest graciously extended the cocktail hour so the guests could enjoy that. There were a lot of emotional speeches throughout the night - even Aleen and I had tears!! It's hard to shoot when you're crying! Everybody had an awesome time dancing to the music from CTO Park Avenue - we sure had lots of action shots on the dance floor. Oh, and the filet mignon was out of this world - we enjoyed the dinner along with all of the guests!! It was truly a great night! And hopefully Liz and Jamie are getting some much-needed sunshine in St. Lucia - they deserve it!

Best wishes - Paula and Aleen