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| Image taken by Tony Bendele Photography |
Brides are supposed to
be the stars in weddings, and the consequent photo shoots. Someone must have
forgotten to tell this horse, as it broke out its biggest smile and stole the
show.
Pennsylvania bride
Patty Womer was posing for photos on her wedding day when an unlikely guest
stole the spotlight.
Tony Bendele captured
the image during the wedding of Patti Womer, the owner of horses Dutch and
Cricket. Womer wanted the two horses to play a part on her big day. It looked
like Cricket was completely down with the idea and flashed its biggest smile to
match that of its owner.
Bendele shared the shot
on his Facebook page and it has garnered positive feedback.
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| Facebook image: @tonybendelephotography |
“I honestly don’t mind
having attention on her instead of me. Dutch and Cricket are such a big part of
me, and I will always have a special place in my heart for them,” Womer
tells
“This just showed that
my father was there with me through the whole thing,” Womer, an agriculture
science major at Penn State University, said to Yahoo.
Bendele, who has
photographed wildlife before, told Yahoo that he’s “never seen a horse doing
the smile like that.”
“It actually caught my
eye initially when we first started doing the photographs. As the bride was
smiling the horse would look up and put its teeth just like that,” he said.
Womer concedes that
Cricket isn’t exactly smiling for the cameras.
“Honestly, the horse is
just shaking her head trying to get a fly off or something but with her showing
her teeth, it looks like she is smiling,” she said.
According to Yahoo
Lifestyle, The two horses were a present from her father when she was 8 years
old. Her close bond to the two animals and their connection to her father who
passed away in 2016 prompted her to include them in her wedding. The two
escorted Womer up to the ceremony. Dutch, her father’s horse, walked beside
Cricket with an empty saddle.
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| Facebook image: @tonybendelephotography |
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