Sunday, March 23, 2014

not your typical wedding photos

I meet Jill to see a show,‘Til Divorce Do Us Part.  Adorning the lobby are poster-size photos of smiling brides and grooms.  In all of them, the groom's head is covered up, disguised as some cartoon character, or just x'ed out.

It’s not the kind of theater Jill and I normally go to, but she has free tickets.  It’s a cutesy little musical with lots of talent.  The audience is mostly women over 50.  They love it.  At 60 minutes, it would have been fine; at 80 it is just okay.  Jill's succinct review, "I had such low expectactions coming here, it was actually better than I thought it would be."

I stop off at the Apple Store at Grand Central on my way home.  I walk up the balcony stairs on my way to the Genius Bar and come across an unfamiliar sight.

In the midst of people running for trains, a bride and groom are being photographed.  I am standing next to the person shooting away with an important looking camera.  “Is this for real,” I ask.  He assures me it is.

The reason I’m even here is that the flash on my camera isn’t working, thus the less-than stellar photo.



I later find out, through one of the geniuses, I had the flash set on Auto, and not On, as it should have been. 


When I come back, the bride and groom are gone. No chance for a better picture now.

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