For today we’ll begin with the preparations on the big day.  I started the day at Joy’s house, so here are some detail shots as well as ones of Joy with her mum and sister.

I love the below shot of Joy’s earing.  The black and white really features the “bling” factor.  Very cool.

Joy’s little brother was really cool.  The below photo on the left shows him and his bear hanging out before the events unfolded.  He had no end of fun expressions and situations that made for great photo ops!

And to end the first post, above you can see the sweet Rolls Royce they rented.  It lacked no edge of coolness and class, and as you will see later it makes for a great addition in photos with a couple!

Here is the first installment!  Due to very low internet locations the posts are not as often as I thought they would have been, but that’s not to say that the time here has been without adventure!  We’ve had a great time so far touring Belfast, the eastern seaboard, climbing among some of the mountains, and connecting with friends not seen for quite some time.  The engagement session will be coming later, but it was one of the only no-cloud sunny days in Ireland (they said you can count the number of days this nice on one hand!).  However, the light was harsh (as all you photographers can imagine), so we worked with what we got!

Waiting for Bruce to pickup his rental car, the groom (Aidan) and I have a rest on the LEFT side of the road!

Above, we had a picnic before hiking around Silent Valley in the mountains, and directly before the engagement session.

Here we are sitting down to a great meal of Indian food at a Belfast restaurant called Indy.  This kicked off a small bachelor party for Aidan, of which a “clements-crawl” for coffee ensued directly after.

And tonight a took a walk up the CRAZY NARROW road to see the sight from the hill above Aidan’s house in Dundonald, just outside of Belfast.  It was beautiful, but I did have to cut the walk short as we had to head out.  I’ll post more soon!