Bentley Photography History Part 11
The Honeymoon
Since we got married in August things were still pretty busy at a resort like Sea Island so we had a short honeymoon. We honeymooned in Savannah and Charleston for about three days and came back to work. If you know Chance you know that she is always up at the crack of dawn and running until she goes to bed at night. On our honeymoon I saw another side of Chance, she was completely exhausted. Everything building up to the wedding had taken its toll on her and I saw that she really was human. We had a great honeymoon and truthfully I feel like it am still on it. This year for Valentines day I got her a card that showed the progression of marriage from the honeymoon stage to five years, ten years and after twenty years and how you view each other and respect each other. When I looked at the card I had to get it because I am still at the six month, or honeymoon stage, with her.
A few months after our honeymoon we had a few changes in management at work and I saw that it wasn't the place I wanted to be too much longer. It was then we decided to start our own business but knew that we couldn't afford for me to just quit work. Sea Island was hiring some wine stewards at the time and I applied for a job doing that since it was a night job and quit my photography job. Over the next couple of years I worked at night and did photography during the day and on weekends. During this time Chance was going to school and working at a local health club running its pro shop. A little over a year after becoming a wine steward one of my co-workers that had another job with ASA (Atlantic Southeast Airlines) told me about a part time job opening at the airport with ASA. I interviewed for that job and took it soon after. So now I was working in the morning from 5:30 till about noon at the airport and at night from 6 till about 10:30 being a wine steward. This couldn't last for long! We soon realized that we were doing more and more weddings and a lot of them were in the Atlanta area. I quit my job at Sea Island and just worked for ASA, since it allowed us to fly to Atlanta on the weekends to photograph weddings.
Something life-changing is about to happen.
One from when we were dating
At our rehearsal dinner
Chance showing her boating skills at the Okefenokee swamp.