What a freaking weekend. Part 2

So . . . who knows when I even started begging, but beg I did, for Gina to allow me to 2nd shoot one of her weddings. She had a few weddings left and remarkably we settled on the September 5th wedding to mark my debut.

To tell the truth, I wasn't that nervous. I'm not sure why. I just wasn't. I was excited. I was hopeful. But not that anxious. Until we went to West Photo. That's when I had to write a $1400 deposit check for this beast.

Right here, in the parking lot, when I coupled up this lens with what suddenly felt like a rinky dink Rebel . . . this is when I got scared crapless. What the h was I doing? I felt way over my head:


Somehow, I shook it off and was totally excited to hit the road with Gina the next morning! We had a great conversation on the way up, which seem to be so hard to schedule due to our living so far apart!

The day was really long, I'm not going to lie, but enjoyable in every aspect . . . until I found myself pumping outside of a tent using a tablecloth as a shield and reading text messages from my Mom, Stepdad and Tony that Isaac had a fever! That was agonizing to say the least. I felt extremely foolish that I was traipsing about as a pretend photographer, as my precious son for the first time was anything less than perfect and I wasn't able to comfort him!

In addition to the fever, Gina's had a bad run with vehicles lately . . . When we first planned our day she mentioned she could drive her truck, albeit without air. Now Gina and I very similar, so I assumed that since it was her gig, she'd want to drive/be in control, because that's the way I am. Unfortunately I was wrong and totally should have offered to drive, because just as we pulled into the parking lot of the reception the truck died. There was no saving it, which meant that we found ourselves chilling with the guests {some of whom I actually knew!} for an extended period of time before Gina's sister was able to make it over to Wisconsin to pick us up.

My poor baby boy was still flushed when I finally got my hands on him at 10:00, but he cuddled with me a bit and went to sleep like a rock. He literally didn't move from the position I placed him in, but woke up cool to the touch! We're not sure if it was a teething fever or symptom of a cold, as the majority of my Mom's daycare kids were sick over the holiday weekend.

All this to say, I had one of the greatest days of the summer with Gina on Saturday! Normally she wouldn't allow for her 2nd shooter to go about posting their work, but she's relented in this case. :)

Please let me share with you my first endeavor 2nd shooting. Gina it was an amazing experience!



































































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