Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] wedding candids
From: Mark Rabiner <mark@rabiner.cncoffice.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 08:28:15 -0700
References: <5.0.0.25.2.20001018133343.024d5610@riverside.reid.org>

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

In reply to: Message from Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> (Re: [Leica] wedding candids)