May 14, 2007
All Smiles
If you read Will's blog B.N. (Before Nina), you might have noticed that he never ever smiled in the pictures he'd post of himself. Many years ago, when I asked him to email me a photo that proved he was indeed physically capable of smiling, he sent me back a jpg featuring a closed-mouth, tight-lipped sorry excuse for a grin, at which point I was convinced there was something very very wrong with his teeth. Being that Will and I don't concern ourselves with things like tact, I shared my suspicion ("Are your teeth totally messed up or what?"), and in reponse I received a photo of him baring his perfectly fine pearly whites in a manner that, were we canine, I could only assume was a grimace of pure Alpha aggression. He wasn't being mean, though, just proving a point to a pesky girl.
This is all a long way of saying I'm pretty sure that era has ended for him, as he was all smiles during last weekend's wedding extravaganza.
That photo was taken at the conclusion of a toast during which Older Slackbrother J said that his sister was like Blue Oyster Cult's "Don't Fear the Reaper": a perfect piece of work that could not conceivably be improved upon. Then, as came Will Farrell and Christopher Walken, who took the Reaper to a higher level and made it what it is today, along came betheboy for theslackmistress, making her an even better version of the great girl she's always been. "As for the future," concluded Older Slackbrother J, "all I have to say is..." and then everyone yelled out "More cowbell!" and clapped and cheered, although some of the older folks must have been shaking their heads wondering what in the world we were talking about.
That's the kind of wedding it was--full of obscure pop culture references, jokes about "Jessie's Girl" as the vows were being read, and, of course, robots.
Pictures will be on Flickr as soon as I can get to them. In the meanwhile, bask in the glow of Internet love.
Aw. Love.
Posted by: justJENN at May 14, 2007 04:12 PMOh and Fuckpants! Oh wait. Wrong blog.
Posted by: justJENN at May 14, 2007 04:12 PMLooks as though you captured some amazing moments on camera. They are such a pair, and I am happy to see Will's neverending smiles too.
Posted by: Amanda at May 14, 2007 04:34 PMThat has got to be the best wedding toast EVER!!! Yay, love...
Posted by: Brooke at May 14, 2007 05:12 PMThat has got to be the best wedding toast EVER!!! Yay, love...
Posted by: Brooke at May 14, 2007 05:12 PMWhoops...sorry about the double post...
Posted by: Brooke at May 14, 2007 05:13 PMThat balck and white photo is totally fab and I think that your decision to reformat the camera was a good one. Yay, Slackmistress! Yay, Be The Boy! (have I ever mentioned just how much I adore their dog? Not that I've ever met her, really, just that she looks so sweet in the pictures.)
Posted by: Ky at May 14, 2007 05:22 PMRe: the dog. Apparently she's pretty fab. At least according to Will and Nina. They kept saying, "Oh, I wish Daisy were here!" It was like The Old Man and the Sea all over again.
Posted by: Leah at May 14, 2007 05:29 PMI knew that your photos were going to be fab (isn't that a pain? You do something so uberswell and people take it for granted?) but thank you for capturing the placecards. I wanted to make sure I did so and then handed off my camera and then totally forgot about it.
I cannot WAIT for the rest of the photos. And thank you so so so so so much for coming once again!
xoxox
Posted by: the slackmistress at May 14, 2007 05:36 PMIf I ever get married, want to be my photographer?
That's a big, giant, full on caps and in bold 'IF'.
Posted by: Heather B. at May 14, 2007 05:54 PMit's been a while since i've read "the old man and the sea" - where does daisy the dog appear in the story?. . .
Posted by: bloopy at May 14, 2007 08:11 PMAww. Great pictures, they capture all that sweet, stylish love.
Posted by: felicity at May 14, 2007 09:01 PMMost of what I remember from The Old Man and the Sea is the old man saying "I wish the boy were here" over and over and over and over and over again.
Posted by: Leah at May 14, 2007 09:11 PMDudes! Where did you guys stay? I am all about all things Vegas. And congratulations to Will and Nina, you guys look fabulously happy.
Posted by: jenB at May 14, 2007 09:19 PMWe stayed at Mandalay Bay--tres swank.
Posted by: Leah at May 14, 2007 10:42 PMYeah, I'd totally hire you. Or give you a plane ticket to wherever you like in the world and fly you out to Boston and put you up in a nice hotel.
I would have loved to have photographed my sister's wedding (or DJ-ed it). But they felt really bad about making me work since I was the sister...I still point out that for the amount of money they spent on a (really really shitty photographer who lost their photos for 6 months) photographer we could have purchased a super high-end digital camera, I could have figured it out prior to the wedding and they could have KEPT it after the wedding. Instead, they got the "posed style" photos...and my sister had to go through and photoshop a lot of shit out of them anyway.
There was an interesting article in NYT about how digital cameras are changing the world of professional photography. Specifically it was about how stay-at-home moms are wrangling away contracts from professional baby/family portrait photographers.
Seems like you had a nice time in Vegas...awesome!
Posted by: monkey at May 15, 2007 10:05 AMAlso, the bride's dress is just fabulous.
Posted by: monkey at May 15, 2007 10:06 AMThere are days that I think Will married me for my dog. But I can't say that I wouldn't have done the same. (And thank you everyone!)
Posted by: the slackmistress at May 15, 2007 10:18 AMMonkey--The dress was VELVET. I swooned when I touched it.
(And thanks everyone for the compliments on the photos! It really does help to have good subjects, though...)
Posted by: Leah at May 15, 2007 10:47 AMHave stayed at the Mandalay. Loverly place. Your photos are great! You have a gift my friend.
Posted by: jenB at May 15, 2007 06:08 PM
