Wedding Rings

meeting with photographer

Question:

> In all honesty, does it really matter what kind of photographer I go with? I > mean, everyone that I know that has been married for any substancial amount > of time has maybe 1 or 2 wedding pictures framed on their bedroom wall… > the other 100 pictures are in an album stuffed in the back of the linen > closet or up in the attic collecting dust.  I know it will be a huge deal to > me to see the photos when we first get them back and we’ll all be oodling > over them and complaining about which ones we really hate and laughing and > having a good time over the ones that turned out well… but, in all > honesty, does it really matter in 20 years? In 20 years, will we really care > that one or two of the pics didn’t turn out exactly as we wanted?

I don’t know about 20 years, but I’ve been married over 10, and I still look at our wedding pictures, both the professional and the amateur. Too many folks who were there at our wedding have died in the meantime: how do I explain to my kid who my godmother’s husband is, and what place he had in my life, without a picture to anchor the image? Too, with our mobile society, we’ve moved cross-country twice since we married, and I don’t get the chance to see those dear people very often anymore.  Hence, the desire for pictures. > We could take a picture of us in the backyard wearing jeans and t-shirts and > I would still love him just the same.  I don’t need to wear a big fluffy > white dress and have my picture taken 1000 times to say "I love you."

True.   The way it worked out, I have *one* picture of me and my FIL.  It was taken when I first met him, and it’s a lousy picture, but I keep it anyway.  Why?  He died before we could get married.  (He got the chance to see the wedding rings we bought, but didn’t last long enough to see us use them.) But I think he might have felt better if we’d been able to get a formal portrait, with everyone looking good. > Okay, I had to get that off my chest… sorry… that being said, I still > want nice photos, I’m just not totally obsessed with them.  In the long run, > there are much more important things in life.

It’s not just the photos, either, but then I suspect you know that already. — aMAZon "It’s never too late to have a happy childhood."

Response:

Actually, from the price lists and brochures I’ve seen… this person is the cheapest I’ve found.  Of course, since I haven’t seen any other photogs yet, I don’t know if they just give raw photos or not. I’m in the Seattle area. — Kim < June 30th 2001 >

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -> I don’t know where you live, but that seems a bit high.  I live near > Chicago.  The bridal album(5-8X10’s, 24-5X7’s 76-3 1/2×5) is $800.  I wanted > the less expensive album — about 10 less pictures and nothing embossed on > the front, but fianc

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