I cannot even describe the torrential downpour Monika and I drove through on the way to Krystal and Cal’s wedding. Highway 98 was flooded in some areas and cars were stalled out in the roadway and the sky looked even more menacing ahead of us. I was looking to make sure an ark didn’t float past us! It did not look like it was going to be such a good day for a beach wedding!

I wasn’t really sure how Krystal would take this climatic event and in truth was a bit worried for her as I looked at the radar and saw even more rain headed our way. We met her in the driveway of the house, she was looking excited about her big day and didn’t seem to mind the rain at all. She did ask me what the radar looked like and as any good wedding photographer should do…I lied. I told her it looked great and with any luck we would even have a rainbow. And then I prayed that I was right.  I’ll let you know more about the weather situation later, but first let’s meet our couple for the wedding.

Krystal and Cal. Two very spunky and adorable do it yourselfers who worked together to find just the right pieces of driftwood to create their own wedding arch that they brought with them to Florida. Krystal had decorated every inch of the beach house with festive signs, fun wedding balloons, custom crafted candle holders and much more. It was really awesome! Cal made sure the guys were in the right place at the right time and even had a fun arm wrestling match before the wedding. Monika shot a great image of that!

After the girls toasting and an uncle cooking and lots of hustle and bustle, it was time for the wedding. Although it was still gray and not so pretty inland a few blocks, we came up to the beach to find the water the most wonderful emerald green color and no rain over the area!! As you can probably imagine, the wedding went off without a hitch. The beautiful bride and her handsome groom looked at each other with adoration and the nuptials were sealed with a passionate kiss.

Back at the beach house, the food was being cooked for the reception. A country low boil and northern real Italian sausage completed with home made cheesecake…yah..it was a great wedding! Enjoy their images!

The ice cream man was a little added treat for pictures!

I loved the sky with Krystal's lights...beautiful!