In 1980, I started photographing weddings. As a young photographer in Chicago, I had aspired to something more exciting like magazine work, photographing food on a plate or semi-trailers in muddy truck yards- and I did, but it really wasn't more exciting. I have shot images in nearly every kind of photographic category and as a result, I just kept getting better at observing this one ritual that nearly everyone plays some part in.

I have been both the fly on the wall and the choreographer, the little dictator and the counselor confidant. I've laughed at absurdities and cried with the group. There is little else that comes close to the variety of human emotions that flows throughout this highly charged event. The most valuable lessons I have learned from photographing weddings is the power of quiet observation coupled with the application of almost all photographic genres rolled into one single day.

I have spent much of this time striving to find something as consistently traditional yet always different; where tension, apprehension and edginess is downright happy about something; where silly seeming sentiments give way to inspiration, longing and meaningful promises; and so here I have remained for the beauty of the serendipitous moment.

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