After leaving the town hall, we walked into the center of Piazza del Campo for pictures. Everywhere we walked, people snapped pictures of us and young locals called out "auguri!" an Italian word of well wishes for the marriage. With every "auguri, we called back "grazie mille" (a thousand thanks).
Both the photographer and videographer preferred casual shots of us walking naturally through the square, talking, rather than posed shots. The shot above follows Nancy spinning around on the square, looking like Mary Tyler Moore just before she throws her hat up in the air (strains of "you're gonna make it after all" running through my mind). Then they had me take my jacket off and throw it up in the air (perhaps it's a common Italian thing at weddings). What they failed to tell me was that I was supposed to catch the jacket on the way down. A bad launch angle combined with a slight breeze took it away from me, landing with a hard thud on the dusty bricks. It took several minutes for them each to recover from the laughter and recompose themselves. After brushing of my jacket, one more picture of me picking Nancy up and spinning around with her in my arms (done without dropping my bride on the dusty bricks), and we left the square for more pictures in the streets and on the steps of the Duomo ....
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