The morning of Joe and Valene’s wedding there was a light drizzle. While the brides and bridesmaids were getting ready, the EYETOGRAPHERS constantly refreshed weather reports on their phones and reviewed them skeptically. When Valene walked to the car, she was flanked by her selfless bridesmaids, protecting her hair from the rain with a newspaper. When we hit the country roads on the way out to the ceremony site, the rain advanced out of a drizzle to classic “rainy day” weather. Several spontaneous downpours alternately tossed and returned our hopes of a beautiful outdoor wedding for Joe and Valene. Touch and go as the morning/afternoon was for the eyetographers, the whole day, I only heard the bride and groom mention the weather once or twice. Friends and family wiped the rain off every single chair, and the wedding took place as planned outside the bride’s parent’s home. Joe and Valene said their vows in warm sunlight. Contrary to the song, I could see that to Joe and Valene, rain on your wedding day isn’t important. Or at least not as important as your wedding day itself. Deciding on an outdoor wedding is a testament to a couple’s relationship. The bride and groom know that something so unpredictable as the weather doesn’t affect the joy or meaning of their wedding day. And in the case of Joe and Valene, it couldn’t affect their honeymoon either. They went camping.