Weird Weddings: Stories That Defy Belief and Explanation

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Who's on first...............Brian is on second.

[IndyJeff]

Who's on first...............Brian is on second.

No it sounds like Brian didn't even get a turn to bat but everybody else did. Lenny hit the homer, Todd must have only gotten around to home plate but, it wasn't as good a hit as Lenny. LOL

[robertwgross]

Pamela probably named her first-born "Bloo".

---Bob Gross---

[Moppie]

ROFLOL!!!!!!!


I think one of these a week should keep us all in stiches!

[Curos]

hahahaha, oh my god. Thats terribly awesome. I WANT TO KNOW WHO BRIAN IS!

[Harry Settle]

Nothing here to compete with the Twilight Zone Wedding.

Last summer I was hired to video a co-workers son's wedding. It's a shoestring budget so the MOB is doing the formal photography, supposedly has a whole lot of fancy equipment. Wife and I get there our normal 2 hours prior to the ceremony and start scouting out camera placements and checking out the layout. We're there for an hour and no one has started taking pictures. I need some stills to use in my video start doing some formal stuff while I'm waiting. Alongside me there is a little round woman with an itty bitty sony P&S. My co-worker comes over grabs me in a panic and drags me out of the room where his wife and him start begging me to do the formal stills for them. "Where is the photog I asked?" You guessed it MOB is the little round lady with the P&S. All I had with me was my Minolta Dimage 5 battery hog, 5 sets of charged batteries and the on camera flash. I went in and just started doing the poses as best I could. Go to shoot the Brides family, and there's dad. . . 5' 3" 250lbs. NO HANDS! The sleeves on his tux are down past the tips of his fingers. He just stood there like "Dopey". Got the inside photos done, went to a local garden took some outdoor shots, everything is okey dokey. My c0-worker tells me during this that dad went with the rest of them to check out the tux fit, told them that everything was fine with his and wandered off to buy a car for his wife to drive home because he was going hunting the next morning. Before the ceremony starts we start looking for the cake to get some shots of it. . . my co-workers wife says they haven't seen it, don't know if there is one. MOB was to make the cake. Ceremony goes great. Exit to the dinner area and there's the cake. A store bought off the shelf angelfood cake. Canned frosting with some strawberries on top. . . pre cut into slices.

The rest of the night goes great, no problems. My wife and I pack to leave and there's dopey sleeping in a chair in the hotel lobby.

[cmM]

scary thread! Must not come again :)

It's a threat to my wedding photography. :-P

Bloo Dog, that was some crazy stuff!

[robertwgross]

Come on, we're here to support you. You're among fellow wedding survivors. Some of us are actually married too.

That's another thing that is often hard to get in one take.

---Bob Gross---

[cmM]

cmM,

Everybody has at least ONE weird story. If you don't have any, you're in denial. You've been so traumatized by the event that you've blocked it out.

Come on, we're here to support you. You're among fellow wedding survivors. Some of us are actually married too.Well.... I don't have that much experience. Only shot 2 weddings so far, and they were pretty smooth, no really weird stuff :) ... and not looking forward to it either. I guess I'm gonna have to experience it sooner or later :mad:

[Turbowolf]

I'd rather have had this experience than the one at my wedding...

Long story short - I'm a retired police chief, wife was a medic and as a gift the county coroner was going to shoot the wedding.

Well, she missed the entire wedding due to a homicide. My ex was pissed, her family was pissed ... and it got worse whe I reminded them they had OK'd her doing it instead of hiring someone like I wanted to. But we did get photo's of the Mayor, drunk and dancing on the tables ...

No longer a cop, no longer married.

[robertwgross]

Bob: You've got a wicked sense of humor!

I think you have to have a sense of humor to survive the wedding photo business.

When three of us go, as a team, to shoot a wedding, we have to draw straws before hand. The one that draws the short straw has to distract Uncle Fred.

---Bob Gross---

[BearSummer]

Excellent stroy Bloo, heres a couple of mine,

First wedding ever that my wife and I shot, using EOS5's, wife is shooting colour and I'm shooting B&W. Get a group set up for a photo, go to change a setting on the command dial and it makes a sound like a breaking pencil. Now you know the sounds your camera should make and you sure know the ones it shouldn't. So I continue to change the settings with a feeling of dread, now the command dial just spins, no clicking, just spins freely. I get the cold feeling down the spine that settles into the stomache, grin at the posed group and say "just one second, need to change film, be right back". Rush over to camera and swap the EOS5 for a 500n (no ECF or spot metering), some time later wife asks me "why are you using that camera?" so I whisper in her ear "Cos I broke the other one". She was not pleased...

Had a wedding out in Spain in late May. Flew out a couple of days before to check out the venues and was invited to have lunch with the groom the day before the wedding to just finalise a few points. Turns out its an excuse to sit by the harbour eating seafood and having a few drinks with his friends from the stag do. After about half an hour I suggested that he put some suntan lotion on as he was sitting in the sun, he says not to worry. I remind him several times until one of his friends wives says "ooh your ears are red". He had managed to badly sunburn his ears which were a plum red in the photos. Took hours to colour balance them back to something reasonable.

And finally my fave. We're booked to do an Indian wedding. The B&G hired a victorian castle which is all wood panelled with a mixture of dark oak and gold leaf. Bride tells everyone that the civil ceremony starts at 10am when infact it starts at 11am. Apparently this was so that her friends and family would turn up on time as they were notoriously bad at being anywhere on time. By 10am all of the european guests were there, by 11am we still had only half of the seats filled, bride eventually comes down the stairs at 11:50 and we still had guests arriving during the service. Of course the registrar is furious as she has another service to get to so shes going as fast as she can. Then we get to the religios part of the service which requires a small fire which burns various things including popped corn and other non smokeless fuel. We end up photographing the B&G through this thick haze of smoke. But the day isnt over yet, the huge thunder storm that has be going on all through the wedding and has prevented us from taking any external photos knocks out the power for the entire district. So from 4pm we have no lights, so out come the candles, the cake cutting is done by candle light, the first dance is done in the dark to the sounds of the guests clapping. When the sun finally sets the venue perform a healt and safety assessment and say that they are going to have to close the venue as it isnt safe to have people wandering around in the dark by candle light.

Some things are never easy

BearSummer

[memories]

Well, I've been reading posts here for a couple of weeks. This is my first post but tonight I just had to respond to these "weird wedding stories". My "weird wedding" story: The groom was a tatoo artist. He insisted I take photos of the tatoos on his forearm, then pulled up his pants leg and showed me a "beautiful" tatoo. The next thing I knew he had unbuttoned his shirt to show me the tatoos on his stomach. I politely informed him that that was enough. The next thing I knew his mother was going to his dressing room because he was sulking. Remember the TV ads with the real tall old country man and the short country lady. This bride and groom looked exactly like that. No smiles, no romantic photos for him. In one of the photos he covered up the bride's tatoo on her arm because he didn't like it...it wasn't his art work. I have nothing against tatoos...was just scared of where he may have had others.

[BearSummer]

Bear,

Were you able to take any good shots by candlelight? That must have been interesting.

Yeah was shooting with 1ds's and 550ex's so as the ambient went down I the flash provided more and more of the illumination. Was more stressful than interesting :)

all the best

BearSummer