Sandra Gonzalez WGNO News

6:48 p.m. CST, January 23, 2012
NEW ORLEANS—

Katy Puckett poses for the cameras. Photographers keep clicking the camera, trying to capture that glamour, as Katie poses in a strapless wedding gown in Jackson Square.

But this bride, is not getting her picture taken for her wedding day. She was actually married 11 years ago to Billy Puckett. The two evacuated from Gentilly only to return to their home heavily damaged by Katrina, including their wedding album.

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Billy Puckett returned looking for Katy's ring, that she left behind as they hurriedly evacuated. He found the ring, and their damaged wedding album.

"There was our wedding album still in our armoire, laying on the floor, and our wedding album was kind of propped up right there and it had been under water for several weeks, so we lost all of those good memories," Billy Puckett said.

"They were underwater for 2 weeks, is about how long it took the water you know to settle, so they have been underwater for a long time so obviously they were not salvageable," Katie Puckett said.

That's why dozens of wedding photographers were taking pictures of Katy Puckett, and her husband Billy, and two other couples. They were chosen by the Digital Wedding Forum which held it's big convention in New Orleans. The idea was to "Pay It Forward", and replace these couples' photos with new wedding albums.

The idea came after the Joplin tornado hit Missouri and tore up homes and memories.

"These tornadoes had blown pictures a hundred miles away and people had found them and were posting them on Facebook and people were getting their pictures back. There were baby pictures from a hundred miles away. It inspired me and we were going to New Orleans, and why didn’t we a group of great photographers pay it forward with a gift that we have?" said Deborah Molique of Digital Wedding Forum.

So dozens of photographers hit the French Quarter with the three couples dressed up like it was their wedding day, bu the mood was more like a renewing of their vows. That's what photographers were hoping for. They also hope their efforts to 'pay it forward' would inspire others to do something nice.

"If just one person see that we do it, and take that and affects someone else, it makes a difference, even if it’s something small and little, at least you had some sort of effect. Little ripples of good will go out a little bit," said John Michael Cooper of altf.