Wednesday, 6 August 2008
The other day I attended a wedding with a particularly humorous best man; his speech went down as well as any I've seen before. It's a perk of my role as a London wedding photographer that I often get to see some interesting speeches, songs, poems, eulogies and even comedy sketches. The best man I encountered the other day made several quite cutting jibes at the wedding couple, choosing to ignore the tradition of humiliating the Groom only. I gathered throughout the day there that he was a close friend to both members of the couple which is probably what allowed him to get away with one of the lines in particular which played on the similarity in sound between "bridal" and "bridle". It probably won't work as well in this article as it did on the day but I'll try my best to do it justice here now.Best man: "When the Groom's mother originally telephoned around to find a photographer for the wedding we found it tough to find one from the many operating in London. Eventually we knew we'd found the perfect one when he suggested that he specialised in bridal photography; after all it seemed he already knew what a horse-face our Lisa is ...!"
On a personal level it was nice to get a mention, although the conversation between myself and the wedding party was of course a piece of artistic fiction. I don't only specialise in bridal photography, though it is an important part of the portfolio (some would actually suggest THE most important), any wedding photography package is only as successful as it's individual parts; I definitely make it my mission to remember this as I start each wedding.
