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A few months ago Aileen and I took our show on the road to St. Martins, New Brunswick, Canada to shoot the wedding of Cayman Grant and Terry City.  St. Martins is a small city… well actually a village of a bit more than three hundred residents.  Getting there was a 13 hour journey through four airports.  We arrived on a Thursday and drove a few hours from Halifax, Nova Scotia up to the Cape Breton area as we wanted to site see the Cabot Trail.  Friday morning after a breakfast of eggs sausage and some really good Canadian bacon (gee I wonder why??), we headed out to take a short tour of the Cabot Trail.  Well… short actually turned out to be more than ten hours of driving, and still we had not arrived in St. Martins yet. Tired and in need of some sleep we spent the night in Truro, N.S.  Next morning and 3.5 hours later we arrive in St. Martins and check into the Salmon River Bed & Breakfast. After a brief rest we headed over to the site for to the wedding site for the rehearsal. This was helpful as I was able to get an idea of what the lighting was going to be like the next day. I also realized that two of my four 16GB compact flash cards failed!!! Any photo stores in the village?? yeah right.. the closest one was an hour away in St. John.. which we drove to the next morning. (thank god the wedding wasn’t until later in the day!) I payed more than double what I would have payed in L.A. just so I could have a backup card while I shot the wedding (ouchie). Oh well the lesson here is don’t buy cheap memory cards!!! Anyway, in the end it was all worth it as we had a great time at the wedding and got results that everyone is happy with. Check out the video and judge for yourself.

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