I finally was able to get the pictures I wanted of Russian brides. I was able to sit in the park on a Saturday afternoon and get plenty of pictures.
The first unique thing about a Russian wedding is the decorated cars they rent for the day.
The cars pick them up at their apartments. take them to the registrar, and then all around town to have pictures taken at every monument and park.
The bride and groom ride in the most elaborately decorated cars.
They honk their horns as they go around to all the different sites where they want pictures taken.
This was the most casual wedding we saw. The groom is in the light green shirt and the bride in the floral dress. They were a bit older and I think the girl in yellow was a daughter of either the bride or the groom.
This bride was about falling out of her dress and looked really "lovely" adjusting it!
This was one of 3 obviously pregnant brides. Don't you love the outfit her maid of honor is wearing? The more casual weddings, we are told, have a best man and maid of honor with these sashes across them.
Another strapless gown. Truly, that is all you see in the bridal shop windows. Why should a girl wear something more modest on her wedding day than she does every other day?
The maid of honor and best man are a little more dressed up. They all waited for the groom to have a smoke before they could take this picture. He looked very bored.
This was a cute couple.
Another pregnant one.
This is the main park in town and has the eternal flame in memory of people killed in the 'Great Patriotic War'. Every bridal party has to stop here and place a bouquet of flowers by the flame.
Here are a bunch of bouquets by the flame.
The bride wasn't the only pregnant one in this picture.
At the park they can rent doves to release.
The whole family posed for this picture. This was the most modest dress of the day.
Here comes the bride.....
Actually, another modest dress...wow!
And then there is this one!
After we got all the pictures we wanted, we stopped at the mall on the way home and out comes this couple. Guess the mall must be one of their favorite places and they wanted pictures taken there.
This is Losha and Sasha. He returned from a mission to New York in November and is now Branch Pres. in Volzshky. They got married June 5. He has been accepted to BYU's MBA program and they will be sealed in the Manhattan Temple on their way to Utah.
Sasha and Losha releasing doves.
This is Inna from Krasnoarmesky. She met her husband at the Helsinki Temple. They were married in St. Petersburg and are living there.
Couples are not married in churches. They are married at the registrar's office. In picture before this one they are signing the register, then the marriage is legal. Here they are walking out of the registrar's room, where invited guests have witnessed this signing.
They were married April 3 and sealed in the Helsinki temple the next week.
We taught the missionary prep class
We visited friends
Friends invited us over
We built a temple on the beach
We gave Lena and Masha their blankets and they loved them.
We ate at McDonald with all the missionaries
I gave Katya her blanket
We walked home for the last time
And we visited our statue on a very beautiful and pleasant evening.
Selling fresh, but unwrapped meat at the рынок.
Driving a tramvi or trolleybus
Being a conductor on a tramvi or trolleybus.
Selling green lemonade.
These stands area on every corner in the summer. They are selling квас, which is a drink made out of fermented black bread. 
Selling cold drinks or ice cream.
My favorite....the job I least want is attendant at these rest rooms to collect the 10P when someone comes to use them.
I do not want to pick up after messy people. 
Or keep an area around an apartment building clean.
I do not want to sell anything on the streets...
пирушки (this is in Астрахань). We actually bought from this babushka.
Boring!
Veggies and fruits sold here where we walk daily. They stay until they are sold out.
Dried fish
More veggies.
Flowers.
Radishes. 
The first unique thing about a Russian wedding is the decorated cars they rent for the day.
The cars pick them up at their apartments. take them to the registrar, and then all around town to have pictures taken at every monument and park.
They honk their horns as they go around to all the different sites where they want pictures taken.
This was the most casual wedding we saw. The groom is in the light green shirt and the bride in the floral dress. They were a bit older and I think the girl in yellow was a daughter of either the bride or the groom.
This bride was about falling out of her dress and looked really "lovely" adjusting it!
This was one of 3 obviously pregnant brides. Don't you love the outfit her maid of honor is wearing? The more casual weddings, we are told, have a best man and maid of honor with these sashes across them.
Another strapless gown. Truly, that is all you see in the bridal shop windows. Why should a girl wear something more modest on her wedding day than she does every other day?
The maid of honor and best man are a little more dressed up. They all waited for the groom to have a smoke before they could take this picture. He looked very bored.
This was a cute couple.
Another pregnant one.
This is the main park in town and has the eternal flame in memory of people killed in the 'Great Patriotic War'. Every bridal party has to stop here and place a bouquet of flowers by the flame.
Here are a bunch of bouquets by the flame.
The bride wasn't the only pregnant one in this picture.
At the park they can rent doves to release.
The whole family posed for this picture. This was the most modest dress of the day.
Here comes the bride.....
Actually, another modest dress...wow! 
And then there is this one!
After we got all the pictures we wanted, we stopped at the mall on the way home and out comes this couple. Guess the mall must be one of their favorite places and they wanted pictures taken there.
This is Losha and Sasha. He returned from a mission to New York in November and is now Branch Pres. in Volzshky. They got married June 5. He has been accepted to BYU's MBA program and they will be sealed in the Manhattan Temple on their way to Utah.
Sasha and Losha releasing doves.
This is Inna from Krasnoarmesky. She met her husband at the Helsinki Temple. They were married in St. Petersburg and are living there.
Couples are not married in churches. They are married at the registrar's office. In picture before this one they are signing the register, then the marriage is legal. Here they are walking out of the registrar's room, where invited guests have witnessed this signing.
They were married April 3 and sealed in the Helsinki temple the next week.
