SPF: Framed!

It took me awhile to figure out how I wanted to do this one. I just got 2 frames from a friend’s husband who makes the most outstanding framework I have ever seen. I don’t have any 8 X 10 pictures to put in them, because yes…I am that lame. I was going to put nice pictures of our family in them and display them for SPF. Well, the stupid anxiety crap kicked in and I went to bed at 5:30 this morning after taking enough medication to calm the hormones of a pre-period teenage girl.

So, I realized a.) I shouldn’t start a sentence with the word SO, because it makes me sound stupid. And b.) Only Cormac McCarthy can pull off the horrible punctuation and starting a sentence with the word AND. Lastly, c.) I don’t usually share what I do for a living with many people.

Today, I decided to show you what I do, and the reward of this one shot and how a picture could change someone’s outlook on life.

A few months ago we shot a wedding. After the reception was over the maid of honor and a friend were hit in a car accident that they were both lucky to survive from. The maid of honor had to have heart surgery and nearly broke every bone.
We didn’t hear about this until the mother of the bride had called us to ask if we had any pictures that she could bring to the hospital to show them, as a reminder of what the day was about.
Shaun kicked butt and sent her the pictures which they printed out and brought to the hospital. The pictures of the wedding were an inspiration for the maid of honor and according to the mother helped in her recovery of the shock.

A week later, after keeping in contact daily with the bride’s mother, we met up and I gave her the discs from the wedding.
We had packaged them nicely and as a bonus we printed out some 5 x 7 pictures and framed them for her. After we drove off down the freeway my phone rang. It was the mother of the bride SOBBING.

She told me at the wedding that her husband freaked out and decided he didn’t want to be in the spotlight for the father daughter dance. It was too much pressure. As the bride and her father snuck in a dance, I managed to get a shot of them. This is the picture I had framed for the father. I also framed the picture above. He is a pastor in a church in PA. and out of all the pictures, this one grabbed my heart. It grabbed the mother’s heart too.

The bride’s mother was crying as she told me how much our photography, our personality, the people that we are has made an impact on her life.
The picture of her daughter and her husband on her wedding day is one that she will cherish forever.

We do up to 4 weddings a month in the busy season and we get all kinds of people. This woman, with her words changed the way I do my job.
Going above what we sign a contract to do, printing out some pictures and putting them in a frame for someone…that’s all.
I’m proud of what I do. I am blessed to be invited to be a part of the ‘most important day of their lives’. The people I meet, really bring out a beautiful side of myself that I love.

I am willing to share that part now.

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