{"id":2422,"date":"2013-09-24T13:32:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/?p=2422"},"modified":"2013-09-24T13:32:51","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T19:32:51","slug":"are-weddings-about-the-couple-or-about-deities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/2013\/09\/24\/are-weddings-about-the-couple-or-about-deities\/","title":{"rendered":"Are weddings about the couple or about deities?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have a close relative who works as a professional photographer. On occasion, she hires me to be her &#8220;second shooter&#8221; when she has to work a particularly large wedding or other challenging event where she has to corral many people while &#8220;getting&#8221; all the shots she was hired to take.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a blast. I&#8217;ve helped her with multiple weddings including a Hindu wedding in downtown Minneapolis, a riverboat wedding along the mighty Mississippi, a Renaissance Festival wedding where everyone wore old fashioned garb and said &#8220;arr&#8221; a lot, as well as a more traditional outdoor wedding on the family farm.<\/p>\n<p>Good memories, every one of them.<\/p>\n<p>Before each wedding, I receive a list of shots the couple has ordered. I have to get them or risk my relative receiving wrath when it comes to picture delivery time. While I try my darndest to remain invisible during these events, I admit I sometimes need to carefully position myself in awkward (and not completely invisible) positions to get the angles the couple ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Not once has this happened:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"something would happen\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oReLN5nntKw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Yikes. I&#8217;d be soooo ticked. Watch it again and check out the happy couples&#8217; faces. Then check out the l-o-n-g line of bridesmaids. This event is about a deity? Nope. I don&#8217;t believe it for a second.<\/p>\n<p>Wedding photography is about capturing memories and wowzer, this couple has one doozy of a memory.<\/p>\n<p>DeathAneTaxes appears to agree with my assessment:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I would think holy clusterfucks like these would be a churchman\u2019s bread and butter. And you know the video\/photo crew ran a good $2K or so. So why does the master of ceremonies mouth off \u201cthis is not about photography, this is about god\u201d when this is <i>clearly<\/i> a paid gig that\u2019s supposed to send feel-good vibes across the pews? Or, in this case, in a country clubby open field that was clearly not cheap.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deathandtaxesmag.com\/206227\/pastor-ruins-wedding-by-berating-video-and-photo-crew\/\">DeathAndTaxes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; I have a close relative who works as a professional photographer. On occasion, she hires me to be her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-2422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interesting","tag-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/incongruentelements\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}