Rehearsal Dreams

I had what I think qualifies as my first wedding dream last night.  Funny, eh?  I’ve been working on planning the wedding for a little over two months now and it’s taken this long to finally have a wedding-related dream.  Even funnier is that the dream’s setting was not the wedding, but our “rehearsal” dinner (I put rehearsal in quotes because we’re unsure that it’s necessary — we want to do a family dinner, but we’re not sure we’re going to put ourselves, our bridal party, and our families through the motions).

Let me preface this by saying that our photographer woes have been cured — we’ve found someone who does excellent photography and isn’t charging us an arm and a leg. Our photographer not only does weddings, but works in the media, so I feel confident about her as we move forward with our wedding plans. She seems extremely enthusiastic, is already giving me details on how she plans to structure the day, and was straightforward and no-nonsense when we interviewed her over the phone. Overall, she seems very cool.

I had contacted other people, however, in my search to find a photographer. Our photographer was my first choice given her experience, but I did some reaching out to others just in case. One of those photographers emailed me last night to tell me that, yes, he was available on our date. Were we still interested?

I haven’t written him back, but I did have a dream in which he was shooting pics for our rehearsal dinner. I got back proofs from him (which were in the shape of a Pantone color bridge set for some reason) and flipped through them eagerly. There were various shots (all good, by the way) of the bridal part, of IP, of our families. I remember being particularly thrilled about one photo of IP — to me it captured and exuded IP’s personality, which is a combo of warmth and subtle sarcasm. But as I flipped through the photographs, I noticed there weren’t any of me. Why!?

I didn’t figure the mystery out, though, as I woke up at 4:45am; I had to get up at 5am anyway, so I didn’t try to fall asleep again in order to uncover the answer. I’m sure, though, that our photographer will have at least a few photos of me on the wedding day.