A bride asked me about scheduling - time allows for just the end of getting ready and then into a first-meeting. I sent her this.
INTERIOR. AFTERNOON.
Tropical Hotel Suite.
03:00
Brooding, auteur photographer enters the hotel suite. Bridemaids swoon
and exchange glances. Then giggle. He appraises the room and its
occupants, deems them worthy of photography and prepares himself and his
equipment.
03:04
All the occupants of the room have been dressed, mostly stockinged-feet
dart about. They are donning final accoutrement and attending to each
others hair or makeup, or often, tidying the area. Our stealthy
photographer has begun to capture details around the room, an
intelligence gathering mission in disguise.
03:10
The wedding dress is captured near or far from where it hang, perhaps
adjusted slightly, perhaps not. Other details begin to take shape:
rings, flowers, shoes and the activity that accompanies the anticipation
of a special event.
03:15
The bride is in the last stage of makeup. She is stunning, as all brides
are. The remaining touches highlight the key features that define our
unique heroine.
03:20
The bridesmaids have assembled in another room with glorious light to
prepare the bride's dress for a delicate installation.
03:22
The bride enters, an attendant closes the door slowly behind her. The
photographer is left in the hallway, tapping his foot. politely.
03:28
The photographer finds optimum vantage points and deftly records the
last few moments of the bride's transformation.
03:30
Attendants gracefully fall away from the bride in awe, leaving the bride
in a shimmering sunlit glow.
1. I had to look up "brooding" it appears to be related to what a chicken does when it sits on its eggs. Are you trying to tell us you're pregnant?
2. I thought that "as all brides are" detracts from the power of "the bride is stunning"
again... great piece... informative, humorous and intellectually stimulating all at once. Bravo!
1. There is another meaning - to think anxiously or gloomily about : ponder. I don't really consider myself brooding, but it really kind of goes with auteur.
2. Well, I actually rewrote that a few times. I didn't want to imply that the bride was not unique, but I did want to say that all brides are beautiful (some are just prettier than others).
Thanks all. I thought it was fairly funny. Bride sent me an .
1. There is another meaning - to think anxiously or gloomily about : ponder. I don't really consider myself brooding, but it really kind of goes with auteur.
Heathcliff was brooding in Wuthering Heights, and it worked for his beloved Cathy. Of course, she dumped him for Edgar . . .
Great scenario.
I am glad you are posting this while I still have a wedding left to shoot this season... if not it would be like reading about something that you can't wait to do..
So during this wedding, I heard from a few of the brides friends and family about how funny they thought my email was - it was only after getting some context from the bride, did I understand why it had garnered so many laughs. Seems the bride is somewhat hyper-organized and timetable driven. So when she asked me what we were going to do in that half-hour during the day and I came back with that down-to-the-minute missive, I was giving her a good elbow to the ribs.
