TALK ABOUT A WORST CASE SCENARIO!!!
Well, if you're local, you know that 2 weeks ago today, we experienced a freakish wind/lightening storm that knocked out almost everyone's power for as long as 8 days. And as if that weren't enough, our area was smack dab in the middle of a heat wave already. Can you imagine getting married under such circumstances? Well, this brave couple forged ahead as planned, and we all agreed to simply do the "best we could given the situation." It was a small, informal, simple event, but still certainly worthy of my best efforts at photographing it for them.
Adding to the challenge of the heat wave and power failure, was the fact that their wedding was scheduled at 8:30 p.m., poolside, at their neighborhood's clubhouse. Well, as I'm sure you can imagine, by 8:30 p.m., we literally had only minutes of daylight left. Although a generator had been brought in, the only light consisted of a few rope lights that they had on hand to drape around the fence railing. Of main importance from their perspective, was to have light in the one inside area where the food and wedding cake was being kept and served from.
So . . . by the time the ceremony was over, and congratulations passed around, it was all we could do to get in a few quick "formals" of the couple with each of their families. Posed couple portraits? Ha! Not gonna happen. By that time things were in almost utter darkness, and using a flash did nothing more than make them stand out bright from the pitch black background. And even so, both bride and groom were beet red, sweat stained, and dripping from the unbearable heat.
No question this was my most challenging, difficult, and borderline unsalvageable scenario to date. Still, we managed to get a decent representation of the wedding as a celebratory event, if not beautiful picture-perfect portraits :o( And since this was both of their 2nd marriages, they were coming from the experienced and mature perspective of "rolling with the punches." Thank goodness.
Adding to the challenge of the heat wave and power failure, was the fact that their wedding was scheduled at 8:30 p.m., poolside, at their neighborhood's clubhouse. Well, as I'm sure you can imagine, by 8:30 p.m., we literally had only minutes of daylight left. Although a generator had been brought in, the only light consisted of a few rope lights that they had on hand to drape around the fence railing. Of main importance from their perspective, was to have light in the one inside area where the food and wedding cake was being kept and served from.
So . . . by the time the ceremony was over, and congratulations passed around, it was all we could do to get in a few quick "formals" of the couple with each of their families. Posed couple portraits? Ha! Not gonna happen. By that time things were in almost utter darkness, and using a flash did nothing more than make them stand out bright from the pitch black background. And even so, both bride and groom were beet red, sweat stained, and dripping from the unbearable heat.
No question this was my most challenging, difficult, and borderline unsalvageable scenario to date. Still, we managed to get a decent representation of the wedding as a celebratory event, if not beautiful picture-perfect portraits :o( And since this was both of their 2nd marriages, they were coming from the experienced and mature perspective of "rolling with the punches." Thank goodness.
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