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RamblingRose

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23. A fun story about our wedding was the photographer we hired. He was a dentist & did weddings for extra income.

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 05:53 PM

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We must have been one of his first clients. When we met him he said he would take pictures at the rehearsal dinner & wedding but rather than give us all the pictures to choose from, he would pick the pictures and make the album, and include some 8"x"10's, etc. He was nice & the price was great. We were very pleased.

Fast forward 20 years, we get a call from him & he reintroduces himself. Fortunately, we still had the same landline number. He said he was retiring and cleaning out his photo studio and wanted to give us all the negatives and pictures from our wedding, including a large 28" x 23" framed canvas portrait of us outside the church he used for marketing! We gave him our address and he delivered them to our house! More pictures than we know what to do with!

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