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Palmer House Hindu wedding Part Two: Rupel & Adam

I have spent a lot of time looking at Rupel & Adam's faces.  And I swoon every time I go through these pictures.

Rupel's girlish charm, absolute beauty and sincerity complete with Adam's boyish smile and giddy demeanor just makes me want to re-evaluate what it means to find a soul mate.  Yea yea yea.  We all shout out our clients.  It's the thing to do, and good for marketing.

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Palmer House Hindu wedding Part One: Rupel & Adam

Photographers tend to be on a quest to learn from what they don't understand.  Some of us are shy and timid, some are gregarious.  But in the end, we have a segue into the lives of other people. Our cameras. 

In 1989, 4 years after picking up my first camera, I used my Nikon 8008S as a tool to get me into a world right down the street from me, but far far away.  These transsexual prostitutes and their clients had fascinated me for quite some time. This is THE project responsible for taking a dormant passion instilled at birth and fueling the desire to make documentary photography a job: To learn more about people different than myself.

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East Chicago Indiana St. George Serbian Orthodox Church wedding: Stefanie & Jakub

There were a lot of tears.  A lot.

Stefanie was so excited to marry this man, Jakub.  However, just a little more than 4 years ago, when they met, the introduction was a little less … um … tasteful.  Jakub was at a bar with his friend, who happened to be Stefanie's brother, when he tried to get a laugh out of the friend by dancing on "this lady" while she wasn't looking.  "That lady" happened to be Jakub's friend's sister.

Oy.

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Hotel Orrington wedding: Melissa & Alan

What do you get when you attend the Vertebrate Paleontology department's holiday party at Columbia University in Manhattan?  

Love!

The two met when Melissa was invited to the soiree by a mutual friend when Alan was getting his PhD 6 years ago.  Once the two met and locked eyes, they spent the remaining hours sitting on a radiator avoiding intense discussions.  They spoke about Buffy the Vampire Slayer, working in museums (Melissa works at an art museum) and watching people take shots from an ice luge shaped like a dinosaur (which tragically the tail melted so it looked as if people were doing shots off the dinosaur's butt).

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Lauren & Michael’s Wedding

Lauren & Mike.  Sigh.  Two absolutely adorable people.  Ya kind of want to get mad at them for being so darn cute.

And to add to the charm they possess?  The two met 11 years ago in high school before the millennium, and shared their first kiss on New Years, 2000.  One.  Two.  Three.  Awe!  I do like that.  I am a sucker for these stories. 

Bride and groom in Naperville

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