Say Cheese
My sister-in-law got married yesterday and after about 10,000 photos I have discovered a few things about myself :
I do not do a good “on demand smile.” Make me laugh or just be accepting of my serious face.
In most of the pictures that were taken of me yesterday, I look angry..However I did not feel angry or upset at all.. I wonder if I look angry all the time??
Maybe I should practice my on demand smile in the mirror every day until I perfect it… My sister-in-law has a fantastic “on demand ” smile and I am super jealous of it.
I like to take pictures of random things ...Like my foot, the back of my husband’s head, ( he has a great head) and random peoples shoes and clothes.
I am not good at self portraits we tried a few yesterday and for some unknown reason my chin/neck rolls up and gets all camera shy making me look like I have some serious neck deformity.. NOT GOOD.. Self portraits are not for me.
As for the wedding it’s self it was fun and exhausting at the same time…. I try to stay away from wedding and the receptions because I do not particularly enjoy them. However I did have a good time yesterday. It all just seems so overwhelming, and exhausting.
In most of the pictures that were taken of me yesterday, I look angry..However I did not feel angry or upset at all.. I wonder if I look angry all the time??
Maybe I should practice my on demand smile in the mirror every day until I perfect it… My sister-in-law has a fantastic “on demand ” smile and I am super jealous of it.
I like to take pictures of random things ...Like my foot, the back of my husband’s head, ( he has a great head) and random peoples shoes and clothes.
I am not good at self portraits we tried a few yesterday and for some unknown reason my chin/neck rolls up and gets all camera shy making me look like I have some serious neck deformity.. NOT GOOD.. Self portraits are not for me.
As for the wedding it’s self it was fun and exhausting at the same time…. I try to stay away from wedding and the receptions because I do not particularly enjoy them. However I did have a good time yesterday. It all just seems so overwhelming, and exhausting.
I did not get married the traditional Utah way… there was no temple wedding, no reception, no big fancy wedding dress, no wedding gifts, No reception … I am not complaining AT ALL .. just saying that it was not traditional.
My wedding day in a nut shell …..
Woke up to lipstick words on the bathroom Mirror….
MJ, Will you marry me today?
I told (fiancé at the time) sure..
Then I went to work
Later on that day fiancé called me and told me that I needed to come home we were getting
married in 2 hours.
Came home.. went to the court house.. Had to randomly find two people to be our witnesses .. and then got married… A few days later we called the family and told them that we had gotten married :) ( and no it was not a shotgun marriage)
No fuss, No stress, No bankruptcy, Easy and relaxing.
MY ONLY REGRET
We have no wedding pictures
I have decided that on our 10th wedding anniversary hubby and I are taking a trip to Hawaii, renewing our vows and I am hiring a professional photographer to take 10,000 pictures..
Maybe I will have my “on demand ” smile perfected by then…..
I have decided that on our 10th wedding anniversary hubby and I are taking a trip to Hawaii, renewing our vows and I am hiring a professional photographer to take 10,000 pictures..
Maybe I will have my “on demand ” smile perfected by then…..
Posted by MJ @ 7:35 AM
7 Comments:
MJ,
You just reminded me of an old couple in Vermont. When the man died, the woman ran a photo of the back of his head w/ his obituary in the newspaper.
"Frank was always a bit of a jokester," she explained.
hi MJ I saw your comment on another blog, and strolled by here today to see who you were..just read your blog from March up till today. Admiration and respect for your illness story and way of dealing with it. Can't even imagine, but man, you're strong, you must be for surviving and still having it together. Happy to see you're better(?) and moving on, it's been quite touching to read about these months/years of your life.
I love the marriage story, I got married in secrecy too, we just thought it was a private thing.
I also got the NC-17 very recently, is there a better one or what? Where people have to be, like, 40 before they can take it? I even had some seerious words as the reason for my rating; crappy (x1), dangerous (x6), pain (x13).
Cheers, thanks for your blog
And where on these 10,000 pictures you took? I would like to peruse the please. :)
My sister does have the best "on-demand" smile of ALL time. :)
I want to make sure that we are invited to the renewal ceremony. Seeing as how I missed out on it, too.
You and Ryan looked so great yesterday!
You won't need an "on demand" smile in Hawaii for your anniversary!!! You won't be able to stop grinning if they tell you to.
If you renew your vows in Hawaii, ask Mist to re-write them for you. You won't stop laughing.
Yours sounds like a great wedding day to me! Shame that you didn't hop into a photo booth for some "wedding photos". Having a photographer take some anniversary photos sounds like a great idea. :)
My sister-in-law has a good "on demand smile", too. The funny thing is that she always flashes a smile in photos, yet rarely smiles at all in life because she's generally stressed or unhappy. Looking at her pictures, though, she looks like the happiest person in the universe. It's like false advertising. ;)
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