Lost in the moment...

I have been to my share of weddings in fact I have been to so many I might even be an expect with anything regarding a wedding but trust me... I will never give out my thoughts and advice to anyone and get paid for it. I do however know what I would and wouldn't do when and if it came to my day in white..I know this much it won't be anything like the last hundreds of weddings I have been to in my lifetime nor will it be like any of the ones to come.

Even thou I have been to so many I still never get tired of capturing that special day for two people who are beginning their journey together. Its an honor that I still think and believe I don't deserve and one I will always feel grateful to have no matter how many weddings I may do. For I know and realize the importance of capturing that moment of life for that bride and groom.

Everyone has their favorite part of the wedding day some its when the bride is escorted by her father, others its watching the groom as his bride walks towards him, some its the end when they can start drinking, some its the toasts, some its the first dance, some don't have a favorite part at all--they have to be there, some the PARTY!!...and so on...

What is mine?? I have two really the first well I haven't seen a lot of couples do since most are watching and listening when the vocalists are singing some meaningful song about love. But every once and a while you will find a bride and groom comletely lost in the moment, in a world that only has him and her. Its that look the way they look at each other and so softly touch each other. The way they make it seem that holding this person's hand is like holding the world in the palm of their hands... That tend smile he gives her and the way her smile reflects in his eyes. That moment is hard to explain for no words can ever do it justice its like trying to find the words to describe a sunset or what its like to be in a moment when you realize you are in a moment of pure and utter happiness...there just aren't any words... that I find to be one of my favorite moments to witness and capture in a photograph.

My other favorite moment is when the bride and groom walk hand in hand after they are pronounced husband and wife. The smiles on their faces as they not only look at each other but also the look they give to the family and friends that fill the chruch to witness and celebrate the joining of two lives. Is a sight that moves me.

That look is filled with hope faith and love...its the closest thing I have found that compares to the eyes of children for it holds innocences... For that moment even thou it lasts only a matter of seconds holds the beginning of having the future in your grasps and holding in your hand your dreams come true.

For that moment you see only the best of what will be! A future full of love, happiness, and success. The picture perfect life of a white picket fence and wrap around porch on a corner lot. A house filled with kids and the journey of growing old together. Its a life that isn't robbed of happiness... its a life that is perfect. The kind of life we dream of having before pain...hurt... sorrow... loss... change and fear set in. The kind of life that has no bad days or tears. The kind of life that is granted every wish prayer and dream. Where you only grow together and never apart and you live forever.

That look that the bride and groom give and that smile that grins on their faces I know only lasts so long but its what I wish for...and I know it will sound crazy but not myself...its the life I wish and dream for my parents, for my brothers, for my sister, for my friends and mates...who are married and yet to be or maybe will never be. For my cousins, for my family, for my punks. For all those I am blessed to have in my life. I want the ones that I love and who make my world give that look to someone and more importantly I want someone to give that look back to them. I want to see that smile that grins from ear to ear. I want the ones I love to feel what its like to be lost in that moment. What it feels like to be holding the world in their hands. What its like to see a future filled with so much faith hope and love. I want those moments for them and to see them ready to burst with love and beaming with happiness. I want them to have a peferct day where the only future they will ever see and have is one filled with everything they ever dreamed of and MORE....And I would feel honored to capture that moment that day...so they can have it for the rest of their lives...something to hold and look back on during life's storms. Something to remind them the blessing they found and have in their lives. So they could have that moment that day to help them get thru all the rough spots all the tears, the loss, the change, the bad days that life throws at us from time to time. Something to look at and know that life isn't always an up hill battle, that life does grant days of sunshine and happiness.

Those are my favorite moments during a day that is filled with simple moments of love and happiness to many too count....and every once and awhile you will find a couple that give you those moments each and every time they look at each other....Those moments are unmeasurable, undescribable, just plain unbelieveable... even if you don't know the couple and its even more powerful when you do. So the next time you are at a wedding....watch the bride and groom and look for that "lost in the moment" look I am talking about...its pretty moving thing to witness.