I’m going to post a lot from this wedding, not only because I spent five days in transit getting there and back, and had the wildest time, but also because Heather and Mike just are rock ‘n roll. Not the kind of rock ‘n roll that they play on the radio but the kind of swagger that the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion brings to a sweaty night on the town. Kick-ass-take-no-prisoners-don’t-settle-for-anything-that-isn’t-out-there-on-the-edge, could be Mike and Heather’s motto – of course its way too long to be a motto, and it would never fit on the family crest, but you get the idea. Who else would fly along with their four closest friends, past the international dateline, get into some helicopters on the cusp of a storm, stand on the edge of cliff in winds that would make superman rethink red as part of his costume, and promise to be together for ever. We won’t even get into the top 10 things that you’d never hear at a wedding – my fav being … that wasn’t a carrot. It was surreal, and on the edge, and rock ‘n roll and I still can’t believe that it happened. We need photographic evidence dammit.

Every year I take on two or three international weddings, and I’m grateful to have been able to go to this one.

This entry was posted Saturday, May 15th, 2010 at 1:14 am and is filed under Weddings, destination wedding, new zealand, queenstown, real weddings.