A Lavender Deluge - Zac & Jordan - Young Living Lavender Farm

Every young girl grows up dreaming of that bright, sunny, sunshiny day that will be her wedding day. It will be 72 degrees, even if it's February in North Dakota. There will be azure blue sky with wispy, white clouds. The flowers will be blooming--all of them, even the ones that are not in season. The birds will all flit down and land on her shoulder as she ties the knot in a world of love and harmony.
Reality is much cooler--pun intended--especially when the bride and groom are as fun as Zac and Jordan.
There was no sun, the birds weren't flitting about, and the clouds were anything but white and wispy. What they DID get, in large amounts, was rain. Huge cloudbursts at totally irregular intervals.
That's the point where a wedding can become a huge bummer or a priceless memory. In this case, there was a plethora of wonderful people who made it the latter. Everyone pitched in to move the reception inside to escape the deluge but they decided to keep the ceremony outside in the gazebo. Generous guests donated about 6 umbrellas that were used to shuttle everyone back and forth in a mostly vain effort to stay dry. It was one of the most fun weddings I've done and I was grateful the rain abated for 10 minutes so we could run and shoot some killer formals in the lavender fields.

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