Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian Reid wrote: ><Snip> > These days I am very cynical about photographers at weddings and I often > feel as though the weddings I attend are managed by the photograhers and > not by the people being married. I've had plenty of brides ask me if it's OK to walk down the aisle. I keep repeating "I'm invisible" but the older generation in particular want to put the photographer in the middle of the wedding. It really hits the fan when they find out i shot black and white! "for all that money no color?" One wedding we took 3 greyhound busses to Timerline Lodge close to the top of Mt. Hood for the wedding. I sat in the front seat with the singer of the band who was quite loaded on a bus. He pointed out all the hidden cross country ski runs as we drove up in the snow. When we got there he disappeared into the bathroom and died. A half a hour after people calmed down a little the bride came up to me and asked me if the wedding should go on. I said yes and that appeared to be all anyone needed to hear. "The show must go on!" I thought I should have said but thank god didn't! This was the first wedding in which the bridesmaids wore black coincidently enought and it seemed to kind of start a trend. People danced and had a good time. The band played with the women who was playing guitar in the bar as the lead singer. They had very wet eyes but really jammed! Kind of a combination wedding - funeral! We were in the middle of nowhere in now a heavy snowstorm with a half a million dollars worth of food and stuff! It was in the papers the next day, The Oregonian. Front page! mark rabiner