Eric’s Wedding
July 30th, 2010I was coming off a job in Colorado where I filmed a family re-union on a Guest Ranch ( http://www.homeranch.com/ ) and went straight to my good friend, Eric’s wedding in Baraboo, Wisconsin. I got in real late on the night of the rehearsal dinner and had to take a cab from the Madison airport out to Baraboo. The cabby was a sensitive young Brian who had a demeanor that said more in his face than we actually talked about. He went to U Wisco Madison, The Badgers fronted a friendly young Badger that goes by Bucky, Bucky the Badger. We talked about college, he told me what he studied, I don’t remember, he said he was probably gonna get into Hotel Furnishing with his father.
The rehearsal Dinner was out at Devil’s Lake State Park and without much knowing where it was, him and I navigated our way through the outskirts of Madison to this lake. He remembers where the lake was from when he was a kid, but more famous than the Lake was the Dells, a monster water amusement park where foreign girls where said to be hired to work for the summers, and businessman from Chicago vacationed with their families, and the local industry boomed for four months out of the year. I arrived at the dinner and there was a bird stuck in the shelter where the party was taking place. Eric and I’s roommate from college is an ornithologist, so everyone expected him to be able to catch a swallow in a high-roofed room full of people. We had a established many new expressions, ingrained moments, and I filmed the best I could while still having a hell of a time at this ceremony we call a wedding.
To see more professional eye and take on the wedding, Eric’s childhood friend Jake Poehls took some amazing photographs and if you ever get married in Chicago, you should look him up.