Last night the new Miss South Carolina was crowned. Stacy and I have talked over the last few years about all of the weird connections we’ve had with ladies that are or have been in the pageants.
I’ve only been to a Miss SC pageant once. That was because I was covering it for the TV station that I worked for at the time. We have a ton of connections to the pageant without ever being directly involved in it. Some of it is photography related, and some of it is not.
Here is all of the connections that I can think about right now.
A couple of weeks ago we photographed a wedding and the bride was a former Miss SC. Our first Wedding of 2007 was a bride that was 2nd or 3rd runner up twice! The people that own the building that our office is in has a daughter that was in the pageant this year. And his sister won the pageant 40 years ago! Oh, there’s even more!
Stacy went to high school and was friends with lady that won it in 1998. I interviewed the girl that won it in 1999 for my TV station. The lady that won it in 2002 went to a different high school than me but was still close, and we had a lot of mutual friends. She came to our youth group a few times when I was in high school. I knew her from that! Another girl that we knew won Miss Williamston a few years ago. A guy that Stacy worked with at a book store a few years ago is heavily involved in the pageants.
There is one more that I can think about right now. Our neighbor across the street photographed the winner of the pageant for like 20 years! Yes, I have a neighbor that used to be a photographer too!
So we have a lot of crazy coincidental connections to the Miss SC Pageant. Isn’t this all kinda weird? It will be interesting to see how many more people involved in the pageant that we will meet in the future.
Oh, I forgot to tell Miss Lexington Anna Perry congrats for winning the pageant! Congrats! I hope you take that $20,000 scholarship that you won and put it to good use. Also, I hope you represent us well at the Miss America Pageant! Good luck!
Jason
Jason