A Couple of Cool Things I’ve Seen at Weddings

If you photograph weddings long enough, you will see and experience just about everything in the gamut of human possibility.

Take, for example, a wedding I photographed in January, on Superbowl Sunday.

Now, I’ve photographed a couple of weddings in years past that have occurred on Superbowl Sunday, and typically what happens is that the men make their way periodically to hang out in the men’s bathroom to watch portions of the game on a small screen TV that the washroom attendant brought to entertain himself.

But this last one was different.

In this case, it was the bride who was the die hard football fan and the groom was so not into it that he didn’t know what teams were playing.

It’s usually the other way around.

So, instead of sequestering into bathrooms, she had the DJ set up plasma monitors in the cocktail hour and reception rooms so that she and whoever else could watch the game. Which is what she and they did.

(Imagine what bridezilla-like fury would be unleashed if a groom ever did that! Oh my.)

Now, Peggy & Harry’s wedding had an interesting twist too. Peggy was looking to do something to spice up their first dance and it was Harry who came up with this idea:

Start the first dance, act as if it was bungled, and then, acting as if to try again, launch into a series of dances from classic movies, while those same movie scenes are playing at the same time on monitors behind them – and keep this all a secret from the guests so they have no idea what’s about to happen, They rehearsed this until they had all the moves nailed down!

So cool. You have to see it to believe it. I think it beats out all the other “fake-em-out-first-dances” I’ve seen posted.

Here’s their video of it: