Wedding Weekend

Whew, the weekend is over. I am glad I still have two more days off.
My wife’s cousin got married this past weekend. Since we live in the same town, and actually only a mile from the reception site, we had a house full of people and helped out quite a bit with things.

We helped decorate the church and reception hall. Then their photographer backed out. They were trying to save money by having a friend shoot the pictures, but then something came up and their friend couldn’t make it. So then I ended up being the photographer too.

I wish I had a better camera. I just have a couple year old Canon point and shoot, but the pictures turned out pretty good. I was actually surprised how good they turned out. My wife was great at putting everybody in their poses, and then I just snapped away. I took 253 pictures. I knew if I took a shit-ton of pictures, some of them would turn out alright. I was then able to make a quick slideshow for then next morning when they were opening gifts. I brought my laptop and everybody was able to view the pictures, and I had a few extra CDs to give to the parents and grandparents to make prints.

Now today my project is to make a DVD slideshows for people. That’s the bad part about being a geek. I get put to work all the time. I don’t mind dealing with these pictures. I am happy to do it and I actually enjoy it. It’s much better than my usual job of cleaning viruses and spyware off of computers.