Brad & Aliya

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 03:22:04 +0000

Congrats to Brad and Aliya who tied the knot recently in Waterton. :) They were a real blast! In fact, the whole wedding party was a lot of fun. It’s not every wedding you see the first dance turn into a bridal party chorus routine to the tune of Monty Python’s Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life. And I have so many photos of Aliya laughing. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a bride laugh so much! Aliya also had some fun ideas that we did, like arm-wrestling with her brother, Kareem. You have to check out the funny, intense expressions in the image I posted from that sequence. We did a lot of their portraits beforehand, with the family group photos being done at Cameron Falls and the wedding party images being taken all over the place—it is Waterton after all.

Their wedding cake was one of the most creative designs I’ve seen so far. It was a tropical-themed cake with bamboo-shaped edging and flowers, all in bright colours.

The sunlight was really quite harsh for their ceremony and I remember commenting that it was one of our most challenging lighting situations so far. Ironically, we’ve now done three weddings in a row with similar conditions and they’ve got progressively harder! I’m not sure I like how this is going! Lol! ;)

The speeches and slideshow were hilarious. I’m not sure if Brad is going to live some of those moments down, but at least by now he should have come up with a good excuse for that Michael Jackson pic. Anyways, we wish them all the best in their new life together—even though they are Oilers fans. ;)

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Brad & Aliya