Jacqueline Reitz Photography – the Blog!

Last week, Kandice and I shot the wedding of Nikki and Michael.
While things certainly didn’t go as planned, I couldn’t have imagined a couple that could have handled it with more grace than Nikki and Michael did.

The morning of their wedding, Michael had an unfortunate accident involving their tiny dog, Duke. The accident resulted in a pretty decent scratch to Michael’s iris, which required that he keep his eye taped, and use an eye patch. Yes, on his wedding day.

I think at first, everyone was a little bit in shock, but we all quickly realized that sometimes things happen that are our of your control… and you can either choose to be amused or be irritated. We all settled on amused.
Michael was a trooper from the start, and proceeded to joke with us the remainder of the night about how it really should have been a pirate themed wedding anyways. One of the bridesmaids even sent her husband out to pick up novelty eye patches for the rest of the bridal party to take a photo in! Perfect!

The ceremony and reception were downright BEUATIFUL with hot pink and black/white damask accents. It was seriously a photographers dream wedding. Not one detail was missed, though I’m bummed that I forgot to grab a little box of chocolates for the ride home. Ha!

With a super fun bridal party and parents who could clearly see how in love their children were, the stage was set for an amazing evening.

So here is a quick preview from their happy day. And Nikki? Even if the eye patch isn’t funny now, I swear to you, it will be in another few years. It will be just another hilarious and goofy thing the two of you “did together once… when you were much younger”.