Alison & Gert

“They looked at each other for a moment.

The moment became a longer moment, and suddenly it was a very long moment, so long one could hardly tell where all the time was coming from.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation. He felt on the sudden like a cramped and zoo-born animal who wakes one morning to find the door to his cage hanging quietly open and the savanna stretching gray and pink to the distant rising sun, while all around new sounds are waking.

He wondered what the new sounds were as he gazed at her openly wondering face and her eyes that smiled with a shared surprise.

He hadn’t realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it, had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it now said something it had never said to him before, which was ‘yes.’”

So Long And Thanks For The Fish (Douglas Adams) (I am terribly geeky I know) but looking at the pictures of Alison & Gert’s wedding at Haddo House it reminded me of this. I know I never say much about the weddings I photograph and I think it isn’t because I can’t find words to describe the day to you but because I hope my images tell the story of the day and they say it better than I ever could.

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