The anticipation leading up to the wedding ceremony is one of our favorite and most challenging moments during a wedding day. Sometimes there is unmatched emotion. Other times it’s silence. At times the girls are as giggly as a third grade class. Every so often, there is a nervousness in anticipation of what is right in front of them.
Our job is to capture it as it happens, without influence or being intrusive. This image was one of those quiet, subtle moments right before the ceremony. I was at the bottom of the staircase and the guys were getting ready to come downstairs for the beginning of the ceremony. Elizabeth was with the girls and I had a moment to try something different. I framed this image with no one there, hoping to get something of the groom walking down the stairs framed with the staircase. In a blink, he peeked around the corner to see if the coast was clear. And then he was gone.
About a minute later, the guys walked down the staircase and I got the photograph that I was originally trying for, but this unexpected one trumped them all.