Now that all the work is done, I can relax again. Luckily, I didn’t embarrass myself by flubbing Saturday’s volunteer photo assignments.

I don’t like to do weddings. I’m under-equipped and under-experienced for that kind of assignment. But for friends, I do my best, after providing lots of disclaimers and fair warning that results may vary.

On Saturday, I started with the wedding on the beach at Kualoa in the afternoon, then continued as the party proceeded back at the home of the bride’s grandfather in Kaaawa.

This kind of local event really captures the diversity of Hawaii. Actually, friends on the mainland might have trouble relating to the degree of diversity we’re talking about!

Anyway, although the bride and her supporting cast were an hour late to the wedding, everything eventually went on without any further glitches. The rain, which poured down briefly on the few of us who had arrived at Kualoa Park on time, threatened but didn’t return to disrupt the wedding itself. And although things got muddy around the edges of the big tent where the party continued into the evening, everyone had a good time.

So feel free to sample the pictures, first from the wedding, and then from the party.

Note: I used two cameras during the day. For the wedding, I relied primarily on my Canon 5Dii with a single 24-105mm zoom lens. And at the party, I carried just the Sony RX-1 which has a fixed moderate 35mm wide-angle lens. Both cameras are “full frame,” meaning their sensors are much bigger than most consumer cameras or phones, giving the photos a certain look that I can’t quite explain.