Crazy how much has happened in 10 years. And crazier that it's almost all chronicled right here on this blog...
10 years...I'm sure none of us could have predicted where we are today. Happy to have met so many amazing people over the years. And thrilled that my job and life allows me to still see so many of them to this day!
In fact, there were very few people at reunion that I hadn't seen in a long time. I was just excited to see SO MANY of my favorites all in one place at one time!
We arrived in Providence and I met up with Katie and Semmesey and Stella at Paragon for some old school favorites.
Walter and Kate joined us too! (So excited to shoot their wedding in October!)
Then we went and got ready for Campus Dance...
Before Campus Dance there was a Class of 2004 Kickoff Party...
Some lame-o photographer was there taking our class picture.
Saw LOTS and LOTS of past and future DK Brides!!!
And non-DK brides. (Hmmph!)
The place was packed! Lots of awkward catch-up conversations that I had to run away from.
And some of our class "celebrities"!
TomLipinski, who has had roles on "Suits" and "The Following" and who will be recurring in the upcoming "The Knick"...and of course MaxJoseph, star and co-creator of "Catfish: The TV Show" on MTV, a show that you probably don't watch, but lots of annoying teens do!
Miss Chloe was totally starstruck.
Celebrity Photobomb!
Then came Campus Dance. This year we decided on an area for the entire class to congregate, which was the most brilliant idea EVER. (If you've ever been to the dance, you know what a sh*tshow it is to try to find your friends among the 70,000 or so attendees.) We got to see lots and lots of our friends in a very short time!
Loves me some Smershio!
Max just kept creepin up on us and photobombing!
Loves those former-Gastler sisters, now unofficial Brownies!
And forever loves my Felix!
And Laurie and Euge and KittyKat!
And TStar and Rashmi and friends and lovers.
And a fiercefacing JoeMoroneeeeeee (I taught him that face)
Everyone was very very happy to see everyone else!
We LOVES reunions!
Hey PLockett! Haven't seen you since Vegas!
Hey Charlie and Caro! And Max AGAIN.
We looooves a Charlie and Caroline!!!
You can't really tell from this pic, but at the end of the dance - around 1am - the music was off and the bars were closed and the entire green had emptied out, and the only people remaining (everyone you see here) were Class of 2004 people. Because we were having such a great time. Because all our friends were all in one place!
We did eventually end up at Viva/Paragon though.
And then Antonio's. Where I found JoeMorone waiting in line and handed him a $100 bill to buy me two slices of Chicken Parm pizza and he ended up spending it on 4 pizzas which he distributed to our friends in the crowd.
Oops! It was a pretty sweet move though...
Somehow we all made it home around 2am.
And then four hours later at 6am I had to wake up to get to the train station to head back to New York to shoot a wedding THAT SAME DAY.
I slept on the train, pulled into Penn Station at 1030am. Ran home to take a shower. And by 12pm was at Le Parker Meridian downing my 3rd Large Iced Coffee taking getting-ready pics for my beautiful bride and groom.
The wedding venue (the penthouse of the hotel) was EPICCCCC and overlooked all of Central Park.
The church, Grace Chapel, was pretty too!
After the wedding was over (around midnight) I went home. Slept until 6am. And then was back on the train to Providence, just in time to catch the graduation procession!
Literally the second I met up with my friends, our Class of 2004: 10 Year Reunion group started moving through the gauntlet of the just-graduated Class of 2014 on College Hill.
It was pretty awesome!
You guys, HERMIONE graduated this year and was here in this crowd SOMEWHERE!!!
(I stole this pic from Instagram.)
Congrats Seniors!!!
I love Brown SO SO SOOOOO much!!!!
Then we had a little brunch at FishCo and our reunion weekend was over.
It was so good to be back. I was a little bummed to have missed the party on Saturday night, and I was exhausted after going back and forth from NYC. But it was totally worth it!
BRUNO 4 EVA!!!!
