Not your usual outdoor wedding!

[gillettecraig]

A couple of shots from two friends' wedding this past weekend. We're all involved in a variety of re-enacting pusuits so it was held at a ghost town (actually a sort of restored ghost town county park) in the Mojave Desert of California. Temperatures were over 100 degrees f. for the afternoon wedding.

I guess the link would help:

http://www.pbase.com/gillettecraig/calicowedding

[menno]

Hi Craig! I've been to Calico as well... fun to have a wedding there, hehe... the shots kind of brought up 'Little House...' when I saw them;) Check my 'Westcoast USA' gallery to see some shots near Calico (road & road directory).
Take care!
Menno

[jcboyd]

Great place for a period wedding Craig. Was this an old west "shotgun wedding"? LOL
john

[gillettecraig]

Nope, a couple of their friends from Calico did some shooting but as you can see from the looks on their faces, nobody had to be forced for this one. Not that we haven't had to have shotguns at some of the weddings we've done.

[oz]

Neat stuff Craig. Nice group shots too. I know how hard those are to pull off. Surely you must have more....... Awesome setting and dress, a very classy act. Congrats to the wedded.

Ozzie

[tfaust]

Craig, the photos turned out great. I love 'old west style' towns. Looks like a great time and what a fun way to get married!

[gillettecraig]

I have a couple more that I think I'll be posting later. I've e-mailed the group about the site so left a few off. I'm going to choose one of them to frame up as a gift to the couple so I don't want to give it away. I wasn't the "official" photographer so only tried to get a few shots and to stay out of the way. It was deathly hot out there, so we weren't inclined to do much moving around out of the shaded areas. The chairs were almost unusable as they'd been out in the sun and even chairs set up right before the ceremony became pretty much too hot to touch in a mater of minutes. I set down my walking stick for the ceremony and the metal head was unholdable by the the time we got up to leave. We ended up in a lot of tourist's pictures - tour buses going to or frm Las Vegas often stop there. There are a series of events in more temperate times of the year that attract far more people, both re-enactors and tourists.

Perhaps surprisingly, the clothing isn't as hot as it might first seem - the wool and cotton do well for breathability, etc. Although the high boots and heavy felt hats are a little stuffy.