So much time and effort goes into planning a wedding and even more so for an outdoor wedding ceremony. But for all the planning and preparation the one thing you can’t account for is the weather.

Christine and Chris’s winery wedding was the perfect backdrop for an outdoor ceremony. Christine wanted to get married more than anything at a winery. So the outdoor ceremony in the vineyard was very important part of the day.

It had rained a lot in the days leading up to her Monterre Winery Wedding, but had been mostly dry  throughout the day, and the radar didn’t show much activity near the winery. So she made a last minute decision to go with her original plan and have the ceremony in the vineyard.

As Christine started to walk down the aisle with her father there were a few scattered drops that  started, then a few more. The trickle of drops quickly picked up the pace. And then it happened, the skies opened up and started to absolutely pour monsoons of rain on to the winery. Great for the grapes, but not the bride.

But what the bride did next will really shock you. She didn’t panic, or have a bridezilla melt down (because you would have heard of this story by now. It would have went viral. ) She didn’t motion for an umbrella to help keep her dry,  she actually didn’t even look up at the sky.

But what she did do , was laugh, giggle and smile then repeat.  When she wasn’t doing that she was staring into her newly husband’s eyes. She was present in their moment no matter what was happening around her.

Oh yeah, what was happening around her, chaos. Husbands scrambling for umbrellas, winery workers tending to the bridal party with umbrellas. The rest of the staff scrambling to break down the outside cocktail hour bar. Women with no husbands or umbrellas were running down the aisle heading for cover.And all this was happening while they continued to be present in their vows.

They dried out eventually and enjoy the rest of the night. But the moral of the story is that you can’t control things and once those thing start to happen being able to except it and go with the moment, that’s a beautiful quality to have within a person. This was one of best experiences I have had as a wedding photographer.

Check out the hand made rings by the groom

Here are some highlights from this Monterre winery wedding in Bethlehem Pennsylvania

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