Gettin' Hitched

Jaime Clampitt (left), of Potomac Falls, celebrates after marrying Corp. David Robert Boast (right), of Fairfax, outside of the Courthouse in Leesburg Tuesday morning. There's a chance David will be deployed to Iraq in 2007, so the couple wanted a quick wedding.

For this photo, I just couldn't get in the right spot for the kiss. In the end, though, I really didn't want that photo. What I got was a more unique moment from a courthouse wedding. It really shows the times that a couple who was only engaged for a short time - less than six weeks - would feel rushed to get the ceremony over with before the groom is sent off to war. After the short ceremony, the couple was getting their picture taken by family. I wanted the bride's maiden name to put in the cutline, so I asked the groom's sister who at the moment was the only one not posing for or taking pictures. She said she didn't know and that she barely knew the bride.