Here’s what I learned on Saturday: If there was a wedding to be shot in the RAIN, I’m so glad it was Eric and Michele’s special day. These two never balked at any of my requests. Not when a clap of thunder interrupted me asking the boys to step on a soggy golf course. Not when I asked this couple to sit on a damp set of steps in their finest attire. And not when I asked them to step outside, into more RAIN, at 11 o’clock for the last set of portraits of the night.

Michele and Eric, from the moment I met you two, I felt at ease with the both of you. I cannot thank you enough for carrying that ease over into your wedding day— one stressful enough without RAIN—and for proving that, really, on a day like Saturday, Mother Nature doesn’t matter. Not when you have love on your side.