So… I arrived in Omaha on Friday around 6 p.m. I was sitting there visiting with my mother-in-law when I get a call from my friend Megan. She asks if I want to go hang out at the camera store so her man, Dave, can help us check out some new equipment. Well, wait… he’s not her man, but he is THE MAN (as I’ll explain in a minute). The store closed at 7, and we were getting there at 7:30. Yes, Dave stayed late just to help us out. Not only that, but he lent us some equipment for the weekend, since some stuff we had ordered had not arrived in time. Dave ROCKS!!! So, I left my doodlebug with her grandma and was off to the camera store across town. (But, I have to mention that I ***LOVE*** Omaha “traffic”. If you can even call it traffic compared to the dreadful stuff we have here in H-town.)
We were there at the camera store until about 10:30. Yeparooni… like I said, Dave ROCKS! (So if you ever need any camera equipment, you should definitely give Dave at {Rockbrook Camera} a call… and if you’re out of state, you won’t have sales tax!) Anyhoo… we were BS-ing and talking “shop” IN the shop, so it was awesome! We tried out some new equipment and played around out of our comfort zone. It was great! (Dave, I totally owe you a beer!) After that we drove around downtown a bit to check out some neat locations, and stopped to have a bite since Megan hadn’t eaten yet. (Gotta love those gals who forget to eat. Unfortunately I never have that problem.) On the way back to the car, we were chatting about the names of everyone in the bridal party. I had to chuckle at Megan who mentioned that the bride’s family owned a “small” trucking company and then she later mentioned the bride’s maiden name is Werner. In case you don’t know, Werner is a very large trucking company. They are everywhere. I’m not sure I would know this, except for the fact that my brother-in-law has worked for Werner as a logistics manager for years, and he used to live in Omaha. So, anyway, now I realized just how big this big wedding might be.
After that we were off to Megan’s place for the night, where we checked to make sure we had everything we needed and to make sure our batteries were charged, etc. It was a late night (up till 1:30, if I remember correctly) and an early morning (up at 6:30), since we had to be up, ready and out the door by around 8 so we could be to the salon by 9. At the salon, I met the bride, and all of her bridesmaids, as well as the mother of the bride and the mother of the groom. Everyone was so nice and down to earth.
After everyone finished at the salon, we were off to the church. The church was big and beautiful, with the most amazing light I have ever seen inside a church. A lot of churches have lots of dark wood and stained glass windows, which are beautiful, but they make the inside so dark. This church was light and bright and gorgeous. Unfortunately the groom ran into a snag (pun intended
, when his pants split down the middle. But, although it was a little stressful tracking down a new pair, everyone handled it was grace and laughter. The bride and groom had elected to do their first meeting before the ceremony, for the sake of a more intimate setting for their photographs and video, and the groom even did so with his drafty pants. They were a real hoot to photograph.
The ceremony went off without a hitch, as they say, and then the entire wedding party took a trolley to the old train station for more photographs and then on to the reception at the Hilton across from the Qwest Center (where Omaha has all their big concerts). The reception was beautiful, with a six tiered wedding cake, a three tiered groom’s cake, and gorgeous flower arrangements at every table.
Without further ado, here are a few of the images from their wedding.
Megan totally rocked this wedding, as you can see on her blog here: http://meganmariephoto.blogspot.com/2009/05/blog-post.html
by Holly
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