I have been to many, many MANY weddings throughout the world in my lifetime, but I honestly have to say the 12+ hour wedding I spent photographing the Estonian wedding of Liisa and Richard was one of the most fun, cultural, AMAZING weddings I have ever been to!  What a way to wrap up our 2009 wedding season.

It was very important to Liisa to have her Estonian culture captured in her wedding –

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after the Estonian wedding at their church, we packed it up for our hour and a half truck out to Mission to celebrate at the family venue where her parents got married 40 years earlier.  Isn’t that so special?!

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a gorgeous log cabin hand built by her grandfather. It was pretty outstanding.

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added bonus: trampoline!!!

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and sweet props for us to use!

Part of the tradition is to play games… and many a game were played like this one where they capture the bride….

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and in order for her to return, the groom is challenged by the capturers to do certain tasks

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like make fruity cocktails for the thieves and interpretive dance…. OMG I have never laughed so hard in my life.  Richard you are such a sport!!!!

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and how fun is it for not only the band to play in leiderhosen but it was such a treat to see such a great performance… and so the night began….

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tons of dancing… the Estonian colors then came out…

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Liisa and Richard you two are such an amazing couple and I hope you had the wedding you always dreamed of. I feel like I only want to do Estonain weddings now it was soooo much fun!

The rain held of when we needed it to and everything was beyond amazing. My assistants and I thank you so much for having us share you day with us.

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much love and happiness! angela