A Modern Twist to Happily Ever After: The One Where We Almost Throw Down For Our Photographer

...otherwise known as Engagement Pics part two. I promise there's a story coming.

Since our second day of shooting succombed to what is sometimes known as fall in Kentucky (mid 50's and rainy), we rescheduled to finish up our engagement session with Reggie (you can revisit the first part here). The weather did not disappoint, except in the fact that we couldn't get some shots that I wanted because the sun was blaring into our eyes. Eh well, you win some, you lose some (I think it got made up for by being allowed to take pictures inside the venue).

First stop was Buster's Backroom and Billiards in the old Distillery District outside of downtown. I love the look of the outside of the building and a mural that lies at the back of the parking lot (several of our friends have had pictures of their cars taken with it). Since the mural was where the sun was glaring, we ended up taking most of the shots in front of the awesome burnt orange loading doors and inside at the bar area of Buster's concert area.

All photos by Reggie Beehner

After constantly wiping tears from my eyes that the Big Ass Fan (literally, in every capacity- a huge fan that's made by a company called Big Ass Fans) near the bar caused (I'm weird and most breezes/wind make my eyes water), we changed clothes, packed up and headed off to Jacobson park to get some sunset shots over the water. And that's where the story gets, um, interesting.

The long and the short of it goes like this: See the "dock" we're sitting on in this picture?

Photo by Reggie Beenher

It's made of these floating plastic pieces and actually made me a little uncomfortable being that close to the water after we walked out there (but that's neither here nor there). There was a man fishing off one of the sides that I believe Reggie asked if he could encroach on his space for a few minutes (I just remember hearing "It'll be like 2 minutes"). Of course 2 minutes turned into 20 and as Reggie was packing his equipment up on the dock, the man (who was British, so envision the accent while reading) began running his mouth about how Reggie was rude, basically pushed him away from his spot, etc. Although Reggie kept his cool during the whole altercation, the man was pretty insistent on trying to start something, so there the four of us were standing on this floating dock, and all the while I kept thinking to myself "This is going to come to blows and we're all going to end up in the water." Fortunately, after having a few words with the man myself (and Justin in position to take a swing if necessary), we made it back to land unscathed (and still dry). It will definitely be a story to remember our pictures by. Oh, and speaking of pictures, here are the fruits of Reggie's (apparently disrespectful) behavior):