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11-12-2015 07:48 AM |
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Originally Posted by HardDrive
(Post 8872700)
To answer the original question, yes.
It involved agreeing to go to the wedding of my girlfriends cousin. The wedding took place in a 'church' that looked like someone had put a roof over a couple doublewide trailers in Pontiac, MI. There was a forging plant of some kind just up the street, and the floor would shake when the gigantic presses would come down. The music was played on a cassette deck that required someone to hold down the play button. Later, at the reception, the groom was nowhere to be found for the first dance, because he was out in his Camaro smoking a joint....with his dad.
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Back in the dark times when I was a wedding photographer I shot an average of 70 to 80 weddings per year. Shudder.
I shot one that was at a 800 sq ft house. I had to use a very wide angle lenses just to get three people in one photo. They opened the sliding glass door and the bride stepped inside and the music was played. They had beanie-weenies for the only food beside some sort of white cake for them to cut. They drove off in a pickup truck with doors that were different colors and the front fenders were different as well. Their check did not bounce and they bought a lot of photos and were great people to work with.
One wedding was an held in a Methodist church with a normal average minister. Not one single guest arrived in time. Not one! It was the minister, bride and groom and the preachers wife as the legal witness. As we were going to the reception, guest were starting to arrive. They just followed us to the reception held away from the church.
It was an African tribal style reception and guests were arriving for three hours. They paid me to stick around for six hours and take photos. They had the traditional eating of the kola nut of the elders. It must taste real bad because everyone made a horrible face when they bit into it. They had several kegs of beer and on open bar. It was a big party. It was the only wedding I ever shot with zero people in the audience at the church. Another great couple to work with and they bought a lot of photos.
I dealt with some real a-holes at weddings that I know cost the price of a decent house. They spent 70K or more on the wedding and the check for my $100 fee to show up and shoot the wedding bounces. :eek:
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