![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/460.jpg\" "\\"Stephan")
<\/p>\nAnd to avoid wearing a bridesmaid’s dress, I volunteered my photographic talents. Thank goodness for canon auto focus because I probably spent 60% of the ceremony and bit of the reception in tears. Let me tell you, taking photos when you have tears welled up and streaming down your face is somewhat of a challenge.<\/p>\n
The shot below is my favorite photograph from the bunch. It was taken at the rehearsal and was the first time Stephan, my sister’s then fiance, had met my grandmother. I was, and still am, moved by the sincerity and love you can see in Stephan’s face. It was a great moment to witness.<\/p>\n
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Here is are a few more of my favorite moments:<\/p>\n
My older sister Lorraine getting her hair done the morning of the wedding.\u00a0 I absolutely love this shot because it’s payback for all those years she tortured me when we were younger.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/502.jpg\" "\\"My")
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I walked out of the ladies room where my sister was getting ready to see if Stephan had arrived yet and in the hallway was my dad decked out in his tux.\u00a0 He looked so handsome, sweet, and very proud.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/556.jpg\" "\\"My")
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My nephew Alex get’s the squeeze from my cousin Lynne.\u00a0 What I love about this photo is that everyone is smiling.\u00a0 In my family that’s quite a feat, especially with my mom.\u00a0 Usually when I point my camera in her direction she gives me some sort of wacky expression.\u00a0 I was lucky enough to catch a few more of her with a smile.\u00a0 The one of her dancing with Stephan is just adorable…she looks so cute.\u00a0 And the next one was at the end of the night…she’s basically telling me to get the camera out of her face but she does have a smile on her face.\u00a0 I think at that point she’d given in to my jedi mind tricks.<\/p>\n
![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/894.jpg\" "\\"Alex")
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![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/1035.jpg\" "\\"My")
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![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/1096.jpg\" "\\"My")
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Lastly, a shot of just my little sister.\u00a0 Except, she’s not so little anymore.<\/p>\n And to avoid wearing a bridesmaid’s dress, I volunteered my photographic talents. Thank goodness for canon auto focus because I probably spent 60% of the ceremony and bit of the reception in tears. Let me tell you, taking photos when you have tears welled up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[122,175,227,352],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mylife","category-photos","tag-family","tag-juanita","tag-my-sister","tag-weddings"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnother favorite moment was the “father\/daughter dance.”\u00a0 My sister opted to dance to the song, Rubberband Man<\/a> by the Spinners<\/a> which is one of dad’s all time favorites.\u00a0 I spent the entire song laughing and crying because they were both so adorable and it just brought back a waves of memories from our childhood.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.denisechambers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/971.jpg\" "\\"Father\/Daughter")
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