if serendipity is a fortunate discovery you make by accident while looking for something else entirely,

what’s it called when unfolding before your eyes appears

exactly what (in your wildest dreams!) you were hoping to find?

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baba and bridesmaids crossed the quaint little bridge from the hawthorne house heading to the chapel. there’s nothing directed or posed about this picture ~ i was simply crossing the bridge from the other direction, having just come from taking some camera equipment to the ceremony site. love how each bridesmaid is positioned, including even the spacing and movement of the blue dresses (worn by baba’s sisters) within the sea of green. love, too, how that railing pulls your eyes in and how the wee bit of camera tilt provides some dance to the image, but that the picture is still grounded vertically.

and a locale even more scrumptious with the addition of hundreds upon hundreds of dainty and delicious brazilian sweets that baba and her mom and sisters has spent the week making for guests. amazing and delectable!

and how beautiful is this girl! beauty inside and out in the truest sense:

. . . down to the tiniest of details

as i was creating the images you see above, look what annika miller saw (and captured perfectly!) from the corner of the room:

“In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and the sharing of pleasures”

~ kahil gibran