So I know that I said my next post would be based around To Be Or Not To Be...A Bridesmaid, but I felt obligated to update about the engagement photo session that we had today. So...good news...it didn't rain..apparently the wedding gods are not out to get us after all....phew!
So first of all, let me say that our wedding photogs are awesome! They get it all...lighting, shutter speeds, angles, props and are fantastic directors for "novice models"...which lets be honest, is what we all are during wedding time. They were supportive, encouraging and basically made me believe I had the stuff to go shoot a compelling perfume spread!
But after a couple hours of trekking through a field, I still can't answer the question "what do I do with these pictures?" I was just at an Oscar party with my parents and the best answer I could come up with was, "keep them so we have a remembrance of how attractive we once were".
Are they the basis for tales that our 60-year-old selves will tell our 20-something children of how we abandoned a potentially lucrative career in staring longingly off in to the distance to have a family? Will we print them out and post them all over our house to remind visitors that a professional makeup artist and a can of hair spray (all me) ups the anty on how photogenic we can be?
Anyways, we did it because...well that's what you do now a days. Its part of the package, so you don't ask questions, you just set the date and show up. I enjoyed the experience and well...maybe that's enough. Maybe the purpose is just that...feeling like a supermodel and the "purpose" of the pictures is to get a couple frame-"able" shots to display and the rest are a treasure chest of memories.
Regardless, the crazy bride had no hesitations of transforming into a "model" bride for a couple hours.
Ahhh...the nonsensical whims and actions of the crazy bride.
Cheers!
AC
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