1,072 pictures

By Marjorie

More than a thousand pictures? You have to be kidding me.

There is no way – not even a slight chance – that I can sort through 1,072 pictures and not want to buy all of them. I understand photography is a business, but I didn’t think it was an enterprise of trickery. The trick being they take extremely nice photos of you and then give you more than you need to choose from so that you’ll purchase enough to break your piggy bank.

Goodness gracious!

Don’t get me wrong I’m delighted they took so many wonderful pictures and that I look absolutely fabulous in about 900 of them, but they should have at least caught me picking my nose or adjusting my bodice. Then I wouldn’t have so many good ones to choose from and could eliminate the “caught off guard” ones.

But no; the photographers did exactly what they were paid to do, and now I am in a predicament. And until you get your proofs back from the photographers, you will have absolutely no idea how many photographs they took or how many you will have to select from. Trust me: It will be plenty.

A photographer is there to capture the moment, and every moment will be caught on camera.

Photos of the wedding party, the groom’s family, the bride’s family, the bride and groom alone, the limousine, the entrance into the reception, the cake cutting, the first dance – you get my point.

So in response to their click-happy fingers that day, here I am faced with a deadline that extends 45 days, and all I can do is repeatedly flip through the proofs googly-eyed over our wedding pictures.

I know eventually I will have to harden up and choose about a tenth of what the photographers offered, but I just really don’t know if I can bring myself to part with the other 900 photos.

I mean after all, I looked damn good that day and I definitely don’t want to forget it.