{"id":303,"date":"2009-10-28T20:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/?p=303"},"modified":"2009-10-28T20:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T03:18:00","slug":"ottawa-wedding-photographer-afroz-aur-usman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/ottawa-wedding-photographer-afroz-aur-usman\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Wedding Photographer | Afroz Aur Usman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She walked into our lives wearing yellow shoes on a bright summer day. With her restless eyes constantly running, she talked about her wedding, our book collection, the view from our downtown condo of the Ottawa river, Mehreen&#8217;s hair, food, life in Ottawa, life elsewhere and much else. Half an hour later she left. The two of us shared a look and then muttered something along the lines of, &#8220;She&#8217;s cool. [Pause] Why does she like us so much?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of weeks later she was sitting in our living room, three of us plopped on our white IKEA couch, her hogging the remote control in one hand, a plate in the other, as we all ate something delicious Mehreen had cooked and watched &#8220;So You Think You Can Dance&#8221;. A little while later we shared our funny YouTube finds, the laptop hooked up to the TV laughing our asses off. <\/p>\n<p>Then there was the time she decided to be our Ottawa tour guide; the time both of them dropped by to give Mehreen company after the accident; the time they came by on Mehreen&#8217;s birthday leaving their best friend&#8217;s wedding earlier; and of course the numerous times she&#8217;d run into us at weddings and yell and wave frantically upon our first sight, &#8220;DOST! HELLO DOST<sup>1<\/sup>!&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>We still don&#8217;t know why you like us Afroz. But, we like that you like us. And we like you too. A lot!<\/p>\n<p>And Usman, we like you too, coz YOU&#8217;RE THE MANAGER! (sorry internet; inside joke &#8211; maybe another blog entry some other day &#8211; you&#8217;ll be hearing a lot more of these two). <\/p>\n<p>Afroz and Usman are getting married this weekend in Ottawa. And we&#8217;ll be there as their friends, and their photographers. Gitty up!<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/AliphAurMeemBlogImages\/28Oct2009\/Ottawa Wedding Photography IMG_0318.JPG\" alt=\"ottawa wedding photographer\"\/><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>1. Dost is Urdu for <em>Friend<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She walked into our lives wearing yellow shoes on a bright summer day. With her restless eyes constantly running, she talked about her wedding, our book collection, the view from our downtown condo of the Ottawa river, Mehreen&#8217;s hair, food, life in Ottawa, life elsewhere and much else. Half an hour later she left. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[142,229,233],"class_list":["post-303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-wedding-photographer-personal","category-toronto-wedding-photographer-ottawa","tag-mehndi","tag-ottawa-wedding-photographer","tag-ottawa-wedding-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aliphaurmeem.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}