Odd Shots Monday--saving the wedding

I didn't take this photo. That's the top of my gray head leaning into the picture. Do I know the bride? No, but I helped save the wedding.The conference center where we were holding our quilting retreat is also a popular venue for garden weddings. It looks over the Puget Sound--the view is wonderful and the sunsets can be spectacular. Our sewing room windows looked out over the expanse of lawn, and the preparation for the first of three weddings for the weekend. Setting up chairs, photo shoots, waiting for the DJ who was an hour late.

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One of the quilters had talked to one of the bridesmaids in the hallway, so they knew what we were doing there. Sixteen women, as many sewing machines, who knows how many particular projects.

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And then they came running into the sewing room. "Does anyone have a needle and thread?"

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Ya think maybe? Hmmm?

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So that is how I happen to have my picture in a stranger's wedding album, sewing up the bit of seam that had split on the wedding gown. The photographer kindly took one with my camera, too.

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Well, now we had a stake in this wedding. So we watched every step from our windows, till our projects called us again. And after the wedding the bride and groom stopped as they walked up along our side of the building toward their awaiting limo. We could see but not hear her explaining the split seam, the quilters in that room up there. And her new husband looked up at our windows and gave us a thumbs up.

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Oddly enough, I had already taken a picture that I thought would be my odd shot. The evening before during the rehearsal, the wedding party getting a shower from the automatic sprinklers. Do you enjoy taking pictures from odd angles, pictures of odd happenings, and-- just wait till you see my next week's odd shot here cause you'll split a seam yourself laughing--really weird stuff? Join us on or about Mondays for Odd Shots. All the details are linked by clicking the Odd Shots camera in the sidebar. Leave a link here if you play, and a comment as well because Mr. Linky disappears when the next odd shot post goes up.