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Why Do Your Friends and Family Members Need to Take the Same Photos From Their iPhone 6?
A few theories.
When I got married in 2015, I spent some time searching for our photographer. As a shooter myself, I wanted to make sure that my photographer got all she needed to do her job. So in our invitations and on our website, we asked our guests to put their phones away for the day.
It didn’t work.
When I walked down the aisle, all I saw were cellphones, a couple of iPads, and even some small DSLRs and I wasn’t too happy about it. Flash photography wasn’t even allowed at my church and yet I’m seeing a few untamed pop-up flashes.
Why wasn’t I happy? Because my husband and I paid over $2500 for a pro to handle the job (yes, you judgmental New Yorkers and Angelenos, that’s a killer price. I agree. But not everyone lives in expensive areas with $6k wedding shooters. I married in Mobile, Alabama). And even though she did an amazing job and took the cellphone barrage in stride, I was upset that none of the guests honored our wishes for an unplugged wedding.
It got worse when we were posing for our formal portraits. Several relatives lined up to also take a shot of us with our wedding party, even overtaking the photographer who was trying to pose us. And there was a stranger no one…