Every wedding I shoot is SOOOO different for so many reasons. Sure we have the same components of the day: getting ready, ceremony, portraits and reception but if you figure in the variables such as Bride + Groom personality, their wedding party (are they fun or not haha), the locations, the seasons and the family dynamics just to name a few. So anytime I show up to shoot a wedding, even though we have a timeline and a plan for the day, I never know what images I’m going to end up capturing. I thoroughly enjoyed photographing this wedding for many reasons but mostly because I want to be adopted into their families…and their wedding party was a hoot! hahaha!
Reasons I loved this wedding:
- She put her dress on in her Mumsy’s house….just like most of the other women in her family had done-in the very same room.
- She got her hair and make up done in the social hall across the street where so many other important events had happened in her life.
- She exchanged vows in her childhood church.
- We photographed their first look on the street she grew up on
- We went back to the school they met at all those years ago in elementary school and photographed some of their portraits.
- I want to be adopted into their families! hahaha!
Joey and I went to the same grade school, St Rosalia Academy. He is three years younger than me. We had run into each other a time or two in different places and each time he would tell the story of how When he was in the 5th grade he had the biggest crush on me, I would have been in 8th grade lol.
This is the real story though.
One rainy night in 2017 I walked into Yesterday’s, a dive bar in Greenfield. There he was, little Joey Villella. Well he took one look at me and that was it. He didn’t leave my side the entire night. We exchanged snap chats lol. We were in that bar until 2:30am when finally we go outside. “My car is down the street and it’s raining, do you mind giving me a ride?” He said.
“Oh sure no problem!” Was my response.
I drove down the block, pulled in behind his car and right before he got out he turned to me paused and said, “sorry but i just have to do this”
HE KISSED ME! Little Joey Villella KISSED ME! It was a riot Jen.
Off he went to his car. And off i went to call all of my friends from grade school!
But the rest is history!
