Well, sometimes as the ‘artist’ you just have to get out of the way and let the story tell:

The lead in

In this rare case Deanna is not intoxicated - she’s laughing out of the giddy excitement of presenting her Groom with his gift in front of the entire wedding. At this point only Deanna and Bill’s dad - walking him down in the above image - know what’s about to happen.  The entire lawn behind me is filled with the guests at their dinner tables.

The package hand-off

OOOOOOOpen it

First glance

Admiration

Double take

Hearty chuckle

I wasn’t running audio at this point and I haven’t heard from the video guys whether they have some - but Deanna has had the barrel of the revolver engraved with:

Groom's answer

“Till Death Do Us Part”

Still laughing

Grinning together

Cowboy kiss

A Cowboy kiss brings it home!

Daisy popper

The sound of magnum

And a few playful images we had a lot of fun with at sunset.

Cheers to Deanna and Bill once again - and thanks for creating a legendary love story, and choosing me to document  it!

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