It’s a totally different experience photographing a friend’s wedding when you’re not the wedding photographer.  For starters, there’s no lugging around the two giant cameras, lenses, flashes, etc., but even more than that it totally changes the dynamic.  There’s no setting up the lighting, there are a ton of people with point and shoot cameras clamoring (and sometimes nudging) in front of you, and if you’re traveling light with one lens, you just work with what you’ve got.

We recently attended our friends, Ramya and Mark’s wedding in Fort Lauderdale, Florida in a traditional Indian wedding ceremony.  There was tons and tons of fantastic Indian food, some seriously great warm weather (well, warm compared to DC, the native Floridians were all in some serious coats when we were there) and lots of great catching up with other friends who attended, much of it over some Texas Hold’em using gummy bears and jolly ranchers.  The wedding was so vivid, just full of unbelievably rich colors.