Wedding: Edith & James – St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Church – Montgomery, Alabama

2013 isn’t over yet, but I’m gonna go ahead and call it now – this may be the sweetest little wedding I shot all year. Most of my inquiries come from brides-to-be, but this time it was the groom who contacted me to ask if I was available to shoot his wedding. The event was going to take place at the quaint St. Joseph of Arimathea Anglican Church, which is tucked in a quiet corner off Bell Road that I didn’t even know existed. James (a Montgomery native) was emailing me from Afghanistan (where he works), to tell me he was planning to renew his vows with his wife Edith (who is Hungarian), while they were visiting Montgomery, before returning to their home in Canada (did you get all that?). They’d been married in a civil ceremony just 5 years ago – and the photographer they hired flaked. And when I say flaked, I mean they have NO professional photographs of the day, just a few snapshots someone was nice enough to take so they’d at least have something. So James wanted to give Edith the wedding she’d always wanted, including the pictures she’d always wanted. So in front of just two guests (his son and daughter-in-law), and one photographer who wouldn’t flake, they promised to love each other all over again.