Five Years...

Thank Goodness It's Friday! 

It's a very special day at the Spear Shack... it's The Husband and I's Five Year Wedding Anniversary! 

I wanted to share with y'all some of our wedding photos!  Mostly for attention because I love it, but also because The Husband rarely makes an appearance on the blog!  What can I say, he's my Gypsy!

Enjoy...oh and stay tuned for a little wedding horror story after the photos...



 

 

Gorgeous photos, right!?  However, did you notice anything different, odd, missing?...Say maybe our wedding party...family and friends...the ceremony and reception...maybe?  Well, let me tell you a story...I'm gonna break it down for you nice and easy...we do not have one single picture from our wedding day from the photographer we hired!  Not one!  I know...go ahead, gasp...I'll wait!  Oh and on top of that, I was 10 weeks pregnant with Jack in all of these photos...I know, right!?  So the wedding day went off without a hitch, well besides it torrential raining which lead to about a third of our rsvp'd guests pulling a no show and having a shit ton of wasted food and booze (well booze never goes to waste, but I digress)...otherwise it was a wonderful day!  I had my best girlfriends with me and I don't think I yelled at too many people?  Eek!

Our photographer was from my hometown, even though we got married in Pittsburg where we live, and she had shot numerous of my friend's weddings.  She did our engagement photos, loved them!  The day of the wedding I think she shot for 6 hours, maybe...we ventured outside in the rain and took the cutest group photos with black umbrellas, we spent an hour getting all the different family photos, she of course captured the ceremony and the reception and all that good stuff!

Fast forward 2 months, my cell rings and I see it was her, I was so excited because I knew this meant our photos were ready for viewing!  Squeal!  Instead I answer and immediately know something is up...she was rambling and mumbling and stuttering, finally I hear "I don't have any of your pictures from your wedding!"  I was all, "Say whaaaat!?" In the end, the disk she had in her camera was corrupt so when she went to pull the pictures off of it...she couldn't.  She had sent it out to two different data recovery places and they couldn't get anything off of it either.  There I was, now 6 weeks pregnant, bloated and without a single wedding photo...mother fuck!  Of course, she refunded all of our money and asked if she could at least do a "studio"shoot with us.  My first thought was, "yeah, sure if I can get my gut back in my body hugging, unforgiving, straight, zero poof, lace dress."  Followed by, "where is my dress?!"  And lastly, "Fuck!  I just cut off all my hair!"  I had cut about 12 inches off my hair the week after our honeymoon, so those are extensions in all of the photos!  LOL!

Four weeks later we had our studio shoot and I have to admit, we ended up with some amazing photos of The Husband and me...but it's not the same, no way - no how!  I am thankful for the photos we do have though, and my step-mom actually took quite a few candid shots throughout the day so we do have those as well!  Here are a few photos from our actual wedding day!

Moral of the story:  When life gives you lemons, you might end up with some gorgeous photos...just not the ones you really wanted, but be thankful and satisfied with what you do have!

Anyone else have a wedding horror story!?  Do share!?

 xoxo