meghan + mark / wedding / 03.30.11

this is an exciting post for oh so many reasons..

1.  yet again, i have not posted in years.  a bajillion years.  BOO me.

2.  the bride just happens to be my best friend.  yeeeup, meg has been my side kick since i was 5.  you may recognize her from past shoots, learning + playing with my camcam last year here +  here.

3.  i got to stand by my best friend's side as she got married to her soul mate.  

4.  this was my first time shooting wedding portraits (and simultaneously as moh)!

5.  oh, and did i mention, #3 + #4 occurred in a little place, called MEHICOOOO!!!

6.  aand finally, today is easter!

i have known and loved meghan forever.  in that forever, boys have been a constant part of our friendship.  we shared all our secret crushes, were always each other's wing-lady, ran to each other to cry when our hearts were broken, called each other in the middle of the night to share dirty deets, covered for each other when an accomplice was needed.

throughout it all, no matter the age, we dreamt of our future, one-day husbands.  we would discuss what their names would be, what they would look like, where we would live, how we'd get pregnant at the exact same time.  who knew we'd both be so incredibly lucky to find them and so soon?

i don't think any of our actual predictions have come true so far.. but reality is certainly better than anything we ever dreamt.  i remember our random camping trip to pebble beach about three years ago, meg.  getting lost, driving my parents' little toyota tercel through a stream, holding up a line of people behind us; unbeknownst to us - your future husband was one of them.  i remember the moment mark walked into our campsite that starry night by the lake, your eyes gazed at his from across the fire.  i knew you were a-swoonin'.  and later that night, i caught you canoodling (yes, i went there), sporting his hat.  you had him from that moment.

i really can't put together the words to express my love for you, both of you, meghan + mark.  it was an extraordinarily magical feeling to hear you, mark, announce to literally the entire beach, your love and complete devotion to someone that means so unmeasurably much to me.  meghan, you truly deserve this - mark and all the love he has to give - soo freaking much.

enough of my warm, squishy, love goop, hey?  here's some portrait imagery i captured of the hothotHOT bride + groom on their day at our mega-beautiful resort in MEHICOOO, the riu jalisco...

haha, meghan was afraid of ants on the trees and made mark check..