Queuing for that special moment

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Bride and groom sharing the wedding photographer with some other couples are waiting for their turn to fake and capture that special moment. The bride wasn't happy because of all the dusty wind. But I think with some help from Photoshop they should have been able to fake the weather too.

In fifty years:

Ahh, do you remember that special moment? How we queued up for our turn for half an hour and how slow those bastards before us were, the bride just could not strike that pose and smile at the same time (why are you even getting married if you can't fake happiness!?). And how we spent half an hour in that water trying all those poses and got shouted at by the crew. And how our feet bled because some evil tiny creatures kept nibbling on them. And how difficult it was to pretend to smile because I was so pissed off. And how it all looked nothing like it does in this picture. But how many likes those pictures got! And how much better they were than those from X's and Y's wedding. Ahhh...

More weddings here.

In Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia

Comments

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

lol. There are some people who would still reminisce about that kind of thing years later. Some people bond over the negativity :)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Real negativity maybe. I just do not understand why people want to stage and fake everything in the pictures they are going to keep as memories of their wedding.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

I think a lot of times people have this idea of what their wedding "should" be/look like. In fact, a lot of wedding sites have lists like 'the 25 shots you MUST get at your wedding!' and 'don't hire your photographer unless they have these on their shot list!'. The whole wedding industry (at least in the US) is built around all these things that couples are told they MUST HAVE! It's probably easy to get caught up in the hype and turn the whole thing into a show.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I do not see why anyone would get caught up in this. I do not know anyone who did it. Why would I care about some "wedding industry" and those "must have" I have no idea.

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

I don't really get it either (but I've also never been married). I've seen otherwise rational people make crazy decisions when trying to plan a wedding because of things like this, though. My guess is that some of it is that, especially if you've never been married before, you look to others for advice, and some of what's out there is just insanity. Probably some of it too is the focus on social media and the obsession with documenting and presenting a particular image to the world.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I understand the part about presenting a particular image to the world of course but if it interferes with the real thing at some very important moments in one's life I do not see why one would choose that image presenting over that moment. Like when my first son is born I would not take to hold him but will be shouting at someone about lighting and putting some make up on me. Or with the wedding, I proposed to the woman I want to marry and she said "yes" and then we go "Now let's fake the whole thing! Yeah!".

[sleepybadger.livejournal.com]

It definitely interferes with the real thing, all the time, unfortunately. .

[aliki.livejournal.com]

Increasingly, it's about the photos and not the experience...

[topum.livejournal.com]

In Asia it can get insane. You can see these poor couples spending up to a week three to four months before the actual wedding walking around in all those costumes with crews of photographers and make up people shouting at each other, etc. I have no clue why they just don't go "Fuck this. No, really, fuck this."

[diejacobsleiter.livejournal.com]

Brilliant!

And: if you value your life, never marry!

[wanderipity.livejournal.com]

I can identify with this after being part of a wedding and on top of that, being asked to look "excited" or some shit hahaha