two years, two months - part seven

The Photographer.

We found a wedding photographer who put us at ease when we talked with him on the phone. This was important because he was offering his services free of charge. It would be an off season, after all, and it would build his portfolio.

Come December, however, he failed to check in with us, and even ignored our calls. We know he ignored our calls because anytime we called from a number we'd given him, he wouldn't pick up, and whenever we used an unfamiliar one and he did, upon discovering what the call was about, he'd feign a bad line. He did this twice.
Happily, though, Grace had initially asked Nathan if he would shoot our wedding. He felt unqualified, though, and agreed only to supplement whichever professional photographer we got.

The night before our morning wedding, we realized that Nathan was in fact our only photographer, and we called him as he was en route to LA. Ever a servant, he agreed and had a nice, new camera with which to shoot. So new, in fact, that he was still reading the manual in the car on the way to the church.

Nate took such good pictures of his first wedding, that we consider it a blessing that he was the sole photographer, and that we can commend his talents and humility whenever we recount our wedding story.