Jason and Meg
December 31, 2009

Hey, I'm starting to really like this blogging stuff again. I think it's because I finally got that RSS feed thing working 100%. Apparently, the more I update my blog, the more my front page changes, and apparently, the search engines like that stuff. So my rank raises, and my phone rings more, and the more business I get in....So...all-in-all, I'm kinda getting paid to blog. Hmm..just like the good ol days, where I got paid to write.

Anyway, I was looking through some of my pictures, and I thought I'd write a little bit about Jason and Meg's wedding, which happened on New Years Eve. Jason and Meg are an extremely cool couple. The really cool thing about their entire wedding is that Jason actually did most of the planning. He got in touch with me, emailed me, talked on the phone with me, for months before their wedding. This guy really put this thing all together for Meg. You know, usually, it's the other way around....woman puts everything all together, man just shows up. Not in this case.

So on their wedding day, Jason shows up, and I know a little bit about him already....that's he's a NFL fan, along with is fiance. But he gets out of the car, and I realize this guy is a lot younger than I thought he would be. He's there smoking his cigarette, laid back, ready to get married. And Meg there is sharing a few good laughs with him. So we start our usual conversation about everything from football, to how they met, etc..etc... And then I find out that Jason is some type of University Professor, or something really close to it. And something like a double major, something with Philosophy. Lets just say, that Jason doesn't look like the academic type....no offense Jason! But stereotyping wouldn't work here.

The ceremony went off perfect. We got great pictures, and Jason and Meg said some pretty sweet stuff to each other in the end. Here are more pictures from their wedding.

Jason gives a lei to Meg...part of the lei exchange ceremony

Meg gives Jason his lei

Let me get technical here. So the way you just saw here is the lei exchange ceremony. It happens after the couple exchanges vows and their rings. The lei represents love as well, but in a different way. My pastor says it the best, "the leis are like like our love. They are beautiful, circular, and never ending, and delicate... But over time, if not taken cared for, they can whither, and fade away. Always take care of your love, so it will last forever..."

On a technical note. Jason's maile Lei is actually a tea leaf maile lei. It's much different than those other cheap tea leaf leis that you see on other websites. This one has some meat to it, and it looks like a real Maile Lei. I switched to the tea leaf maile lei because it's actually better. See, the real maile, is a vine. And it's rather fragile. So fragile, that by the end of the wedding, it's usually falling apart. The tea leaf maile on the other hand, last basically forever, and are durable. They won't fall apart, and best of all, when you're done with the wedding, you can take it home, and drape it over your wedding picture frame....it dries nicely, and can be kept...literally forever.

Sharing of breaths...

This happens right after the lei ceremony. Couples share the first breath together as a married couple, as Rev. Elias, performs a Hawaiian chant over them. It adds that little hawaiian touch. Baiscally, they touch noses and foreheads together, and share their first breath.

FINALLY, THE KISS

Most couples don't kiss like this. But when they do...wow, it makes for great pictures doesn't it! To take these pictures, you kinda have to be fast to react...and always ready for it. Once the groom picks up his wife, you flip that camera and snap, hoping the horizon is as straight as possible. It also helps to shoot the shot a little below waist level, to give the couple a "superiority" look.

Well, that's my wedding post for today!!!