Walking in your shoes

Posted by KC - 04/27/09 at 07:04:24 pm

It’s a good thing when a wedding photographer gets a little firsthand experience with the wedding process. It helps me remember how overwhelming it must seem for those of you who are undertaking one of the most complex and expensive project management tasks you will ever face.

Our son, John, will be married to his fiancée, Annie in Virginia in October. As the grooms parents our “job” is relatively simple. As the grooms father, my job is simpler yet. Regardless the pressure to find just the right venue for a rehearsal dinner in another state, to hire a caterer and set a menu that won’t complete with the reception and deal with the challenges of a guest list when our family is the size of a small army is real indeed (takes deep breath). And I realize that whatever the anxieties are that brides face they are tripled by the challenges of working through all of the decisions while at the same time keeping mom and dad and grandparents, aunts and uncles feeling appreciated and included.

I’m going to be looking over at our associates Patricia and Charles who will be photographing Annie and Johns wedding and wishing I were where they are! What we do as photographers is challenging and occasionally even miraculous. But compared with pulling off the job of planning a whole wedding it’s a walk in the park.

McRee

Posted by KC - 04/08/09 at 04:04:24 pm

The real secret to photographing children is to be a big kid. After about 5 minutes of rolling around on the floor and laying down in the dirt, McRee and I were buddies.

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