She Makes Stuff: Wedding Photos - Part 2 + Commentary

Okay. Sorry about the lack of commentary on the first batch of photos. I was uploading them to the blog as I edited them & I ran out of time to put captions under each photo. However, I think most of them are pretty self-explanatory.

The wedding went very well. Thanks to every one of you who prayed for me, I felt much less stressed than I thought I would. I was able to get behind my camera & forget about everything except capturing the events of the day. That being said, there are some lessons that I learned & a few things I would do differently if I were to have it to do over. For example, post-ceremony shots didn't go quite as smoothly/efficiently as I had hoped, putting us behind schedule. But... considering my inexperience, I think it went as well as could be expected.

Daniel Walter & Ryleigh Stratton

I know I'm completely biased, but Ryleigh was simply the cutest flower girl ever. ;-) To put it mildly, she was the evening's entertainment. She practically pulled Daniel down the aisle, bouncing along & humming some unknown tune to herself. Then, as soon as she got up to the front, she went & got candy from Mandy & made a show of popping it into her mouth. After standing there for only a minute or two, she went over & sat down on a small pew nearby. There must have been some books there because several people heard her say "Look - a book!". She & Daniel sat there looking at books pretty much the rest of the ceremony. When it was time to go back down the aisle, she started down & then realized that she had forgotten her books, so she shoved her flowers into Daniel's hands & went back for the books. ;-) She had no idea that she was being so amusing - she was just having fun playing with Daniel. She fell asleep just moments after we left the reception, but she woke up later when we were putting her to bed & said "I wanna be a fwower gore tomorrow!"