Federer Photography - Minnesota Wedding Photographers

Colonia del Sacramento, Uruguay

Part three of my South America quest (Buenos Aires and Peru being parts one and two) is finally making it online.  Colonia, easily accessible via ferry from Buenos Aires, is a small little backwater town a few hours down the coast from Montevideo; seemingly plucked straight from the past – even the ‘modern’ touches seem 30-60 years old.  Colonia is the oldest town in Uruguay and the historic quarter is a wonderfully serene place.  We were there for 3 days in the middle of the week and rarely saw other people – especially after the sun went down.  Sad, in some ways, because you could tell it was a shell of it’s former self — but what a shell it was!

Brave Bride

I gotta say, Kristine is pretty darn brave. Not only was she willing to climb a tree, hang upside down from monkey-bars, and jump off a picnic table (over me) during their engagement session last fall, but on the day of her wedding, after the makeup has been put on, after the hair, the jewelry, the dress… not long before she was going to be walking down the aisle… her Aunt decides the best method of emergency eyelash separation was “big pair of sharp pointy scissors to the eye”.

It was more comical than it sounds…. but there was no laughing. (at least, not until there was a little scissors-to-eye buffer)

She managed to survive, beautiful eyes intact.  :)   Got married to her best friend and is likely now gallivanting around Jamaica with him.  Oh, and we got some photographs in there too, but more on that later…

Kristin and John’s Wedding

Kristin and John live in Virginia, but came out to Minnesota to have their wedding.  I don’t know what it is about Como, but I always seem to blog when I go shoot there.

A little getting ready at the St. Paul Hotel, a touch of ‘waiting for the conservatory to open’, the ceremony, and that was the day (my part of it at least).   Then they flew away to Belize… lucky ducks.  :p

It was a small, short, yet moving ceremony; really seemed to fit their personalities to a ‘T’.  I am really glad I got to be part of it; I think my favorite moment was watching Kristin tear up when she walked into the sunken garden because of “how beautiful it is”… though her grandparents (large backstory) grabbing one anothers hands in sync with Kristin and John as they exchanged rings still tugs at the heart strings like few things can.  Getting moments like that on film (film?) for my clients is one of the reasons I love shooting weddings…