After a few bad dates that left Michelle thinking that the gerbils running the wheel of operation for her online dating service were crazy, she met Vasily. “I was thinking, ‘How could I be matched up with these people!’ And then I met him. Everything just felt right.”
At my first meeting with Michelle and Vasily, I shot some engagement photos and interviewed the two on camera so that I could add the footage to their wedding day Featurette. It seemed Michelle was a bit nervous, which can be expected, but Vasily had this way with her. I saw how the two looked at each other, how he made her smile, and knew that the comfort and confidence they had with each other was genuine.
Michelle and Vassily were married in the Secret Garden, an oasis in the Valley of the Sun. This Spanish-Colonial home built in 1929, once part of a 300 acre citrus grove, is now an event center, and the perfect spot for an outdoor wedding.
After the ceremony, Michelle & Vas prepared for the second part of their day, the reception. Although Vas was born in Russia and Michelle was an exchange student in Russia, Vas relieved his best man of the obligatory Russian tradition of drinking himself unconscious.
Once people loosened up a bit, the proud father of the bride danced the Kasachok, that tendon-tearing squat-and-kick dance.
Before the evening was through, we brought the two back out to the altar, bedecked with candles and cool desert air.
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