TRINIDAD WEDDING

Last night I finished designing the wedding album for Amit & Gillian, whose wedding I shot in Trinidad last September. For those of you who don't know where Trinidad (& Tobago) is, (which I didn't), it is just off the northern coast of South America, near Aruba. Amit and Gillian are both doctors with practices in D.C. Gillian is originally from Trinidad so they opted to have a destination wedding there. I was thrilled at the opportunity to go somewhere completely new to me and Gary came along with me to help (which I desperately needed) and to have a little vacation. The wedding was wonderful and all of the guests were great to be around. We participated in many of the pre-wedding activities like a float through a bird sanctuary, a day cruise, a bus tour through Trinidad etc.

The one thing that we didn't plan for was the fact that Gary and I were going to be sharing clothes for the week. This was because my luggage never made it there...ever. Not for the 5 days we were there. Luckily, I had all of my camera equipment since I had carried it on the plane. But no clothes, no makeup, no products, no nothing. And to add insult to injury, our trip coincided with Trinidad's Independence Day, a national holiday so all of the stores were closed. When I finally managed to make it to a mall, I found that the style in Trinidad is well, a little bit "hoochy"...as in I had trouble finding clothes that did not bare my midriff and other body parts. :) I did finally get to pick my luggage up on the way back home so luckily it was not gone forever but I did get to cross-dress for several days and go au natural on the makeup.

Here are some images:

The bus tour...
me and Gary on the bus



These kids really enjoyed being photographed

Somebody is in trouble

Lots of people in Trinidad like to wave at the camera


Floating through the bird sanctuary...

There were lots of big snakes in the trees...more snakes than birds at this point.


This was where it got exciting. A big tree had fallen across the river and blocked the path of the boat. Everyone thought we would have to turn around. Our guide thought he would plow right through until the tree started to come up over the front of the boat. Then he decided to get out his trusty machete and he hacked right through the thing!


The Day Cruise...
Gary with the video camera...all of our traumas on this trip were caught on camera


Some decided to go for a swim (I had no bathing suit since I had no luggage)

I was obsessed with this baby


Gillian & Amit "officially" got married in a small ceremony on Saturday, the real wedding was on Sunday






Here are the layouts for their album:
(my clients select their favorite images and I do the design from those)