Rebecca and I go way back. I mean waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back. We were in kindy together and used to spend a lot of weekends at each others’ house (or, as I recall, I spent most of the time at her house, because she had a trampoline AND a Nintendo and I had NOTHING COOL, so her house it was). One time, when I was having my birthday (I think it might have been my 8th birthday?), Rebecca was at my birthday party at my house. Her mum called to ask if she might be able to stay overnight, because she’d just gone into labour with who would soon become Rebecca’s little brother. So she did. We were tight like that.
Years passed and Rebecca and I went to different high schools and drifted apart for a while. As with most people of our generation, we ended up finding each other on facebook a couple of years ago. And, like some weird small world magic, we kind of ended up getting engaged around the same time. And then kind of ended up planning our weddings in the same month.
And then Bec asked me to be her wedding photographer.
The world is a strange, awesome, fateful place.
Can I tell you something? She really hasn’t changed much. Except that maybe she looks more like her mum. And I can tell you right now, she would say the exact same thing about me.
This is Rebecca and LJ. Engage!
From Rebecca and LJ’s engagement shoot!
More to come soon! Can’t wait for their wedding in November.
It’s quite ridiculous that it’s taken me this long to get around to saying something about the beginning of 2012. I’m sorry. But I’m here now; at least that’s something.
2012 started off pretty well for me, actually. For one thing, I was presented with this while the fireworks exploded over Brisbane.
And that made things SO much more exciting. Fireworks are great, friends wooping and cheering too, police congratulating us over the cop car loud speaker… it’s all pretty awesome, to be honest.
Now the wedding photographer has to plan her own wedding. I’m exhausted just thinking about it.
Also, one of my new years resolutions is to start keeping a journal again. I did it pretty religiously for many years until it sort of just petered out one year… perhaps things got too boring to talk about. But as I’m getting older I’m beginning to learn new things about myself and the world and I don’t think it’s too far fetched to think that it’s all worth writing down. So I ordered a new Moleskine online the other day and it finally arrived today – YAY!
Time to go start my resolution, I think.
Here’s to a wonderful 2012, friends.
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