I’ve been doing wedding photography for many years now. During this time I’ve heard a lot of speeches read by brides and grooms and their families and friends, and some of them were quite good. In fact I have to admit that I am a speech junky. I actually look forward to the speeches and I find that they reveal a lot about the personalities of the couple, their families and so on.
Of course my job as a photographer is to capture the speeches in an interesting way and hopefully capture the emotions felt by the person giving the speech or the one the speech is being given to. Every once in a while, and I assure you this doesn’t happen very often, I find myself caught in the moment and totally motionless, just mesmerized by the spoken words. When Roxanne and Kally started exchanging their vows, I must say I had one of those moments. I mean there was no one telling the couple what to say to one another and there was no previously prepared speech on a piece of paper. Nope, it was all from the heart. Both of them proceeded to speak to one another completely and utterly in love. I wish I could repeat the words, what they said was so eloquent and so beautiful it brought me close to tears. I know for a fact my assistant was weeping a little. 🙂
Don’t get me wrong, this was no boring slow-paced wedding either. As a matter of fact I hardly noticed the time go by when I found out that I was there 18 hours. That’s very close to my record time of 19 hours spent photographing a wedding and I didn’t even fell it. Oh and did I mention that this was my first Congolese wedding too.
Here are some shots from this beautiful and fun filled wedding:
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