Trystan Photography: An Intimate Portrait.

Please click on the photo or follow the link to view Kadian and Drago’s 4th of July wedding in Minnesota.

I come from a loud, proud line of “very-happy-to-have-a-good-time” Norwegians. Long ago, all of my Mom’s family lived in Minnesota, but over the decades we’ve scattered about the country, bringing our love of loud speaking, fun drinking, and over-the-top-laughing to the rest of the USA.

Kadian is my cousin, and she met this strong strapping young man from Serbia (with the coolest name in the entire world: Dragomir) in college in Minnesota. When Kadian called and asked if not only would we photograph her wedding, but mentioned it was on the 4th of July I was overwhelmed with happy visions of my entire family on my mom’s side getting together at my uncles’ “estate” in Pine City, MN.

It’s a very rare thing that the whole family can get together, especially my brother, “Lord” Tycen (“lord” is my little nickname for him since he’s a financial analyst in Singapore and lives a different kind of life from the rest of us “little” folk… our loving photo is to the left). I only see Ty on holidays now, speak mostly through Facebook, and suffer through the rare international phone call where the connection is dropped every 3 minutes (I think my phone company stinks).

So, needless to say, we were psyched for our reunion/wedding trip back.

What we didn’t expect were the Serbians.

Now, don’t get me wrong, my family can hold it’s own just fine, but Drago’s family and friends were absolutely, positively, the happiest, most effusively joyful, ready to party, rowdy group of people I have ever met. It was amazing to celebrate with them, and the traditions they brought to the wedding were wonderful.

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