I am a complete geek for The Princess Bride movie, if you’ve never seen it then you must stop reading this and go rent it now!!! GO!!! Don’t read another word of this because I don’t want to spoil the best movie ever, an 80’s cult classic!! I have watched this movie so many times that I can recite almost the entire movie. I remember watching it while doing laundry one time and I walked out of the room reciting the lines, switched the clothes from the washer to dryer and walked back into the room still reciting and didn’t miss a line of dialogue! Yep that is a talent I want engraved on my tombstone. So you can imagine how excited I was to find out not one but two of my September brides are Princess Bride fans!!! Oh and one is throwing a little PB into her wedding, EEEEK!!! That is the sound of me geeking out with excitement!!! Will is be the famous marriage speech? “Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday. Mawage, that bwessed awangment, that dweam wifin a dweam… And wuv, tru wuv, will fowow you foweva…So tweasure your wuv.” Or will they go with the classic line from Wesley to Buttercup, “As you wish”. I’m not sure how she will incorporate it but I’m thinking because of my Princess Bride love that I’m probably going to cry. In our wedding I had my sister who was my MOH walk down the aisle to Story Book Love, the theme song from the movie!
I can already foresee some fun at portrait time reciting lines back and forth at each other. Yep it is going to be good times!! I’m going to have to give David a crash course by making him watch the movie over and over again before September ;)! Who doesn’t love a movie that features “fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, miracles…”. It’s got something for everyone!
Melissa Arlena is an award winning lifestyle newborn photographer in Charlottesville and Richmond, Virginia who has earned her Master Photographer Certification from NAPCP in maternity, newborn and family photography. Her natural and simple work has been featured in magazines and online blogs worldwide. She has been named Best Maternity and Newborn Photographer in Richmond and Charlottesville, VA in 2024.