I don't know if two people have ever been more ready to see each other on their wedding day.  This is one of the best moments in any wedding day and not because it's precious or because of the look of amazement on Derek's face but because this is the first moment they just get to be together which is what they've wanted all along.
As we headed off toward the Snoqualmie Falls Forest Theater, we stopped in a lovely field of tall grass and dandelions.  When these two stepped in to the wild meadow, a Jane Austen novel came alive in front of our very eyes.
When the bride sees her father for the first time, it's lovely.  When there is a T-Rex and the groom comes bounding up with a broad sword, it is literally indescribable.


During the ceremony Jedi knights crashed the stage, Derek performed his own operatic wedding vows, and two crew members of the Starship Enterprise read excerpts about love from 1 Corinthians and about passion from Kahlil Gibran, both were perfect.
From that point on it was a party where music covered everything and not just the ears of the people, it lined the shelves and the table runner was made of player piano music.  The Celtic band Carrigaline taught people to dance traditional Irish folk dances while onlookers happily treated themselves to salmon cooked over a fire, traditional Cuban Sandwiches and local beer from RoofTop Brewing.
 Congratulations Derek and Sophia.  I could not have been more humbled to be part of your day.  Thank you for your gracious hospitality and daring honesty to love with such abandon.  I am excited for what the coming months and years will bring you, I can't wait to hear about your trip to Cuba in November and I hope to see you very soon.

I want to say a HUGE thank you to my husband, Noah, for second shooting this fabulous event with me and to my good friend Rachel for assisting and thinking of literally everything while still holding my coffee and rocking really cute shoes.

And now for parting words from Khalil Gibran: