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Sometimes, things just don't go according to plans.
We returned home late Saturday night after a destination wedding in St. Lucia. It was a wedding we booked about 8 weeks ago where we would be traveling with the couple and their friends/family on a 7 day cruise. The wedding would be on day 3. It was going to be a pretty short timeline on the wedding day day. On day 4, we would do a 2 hour session on a beach that I would find. We had a challenging time before the wedding communicating with the couple. They are both busy professionals (and planning a wedding on a short timetable), so it was nothing overly intentional...they just had other priorities. Because of that, we did not have much of a relationship established with them. In some cases, that is not a big deal, but in this situation, we definitely could see how it affected the process. We did as much as we could before the wedding day to integrate and get to know everyone, but it was a challenge.
The day comes, and the groom ended up being fairly stressed about things taking too long and missing our time to get back to the ship, so our portrait time was cut short. The time we did have, he was not into it. The bride is very quiet, and even though she was working with me just fine, he was the stronger personality. Obviously, I did not want to dictate anything to them, so I went along with their wishes to be quick. No worries, we had two hours set aside tomorrow (which I offered to share with the videographers who were there, because heck...I don't need two full hours!).
The next day comes, and that two hours becomes 30 minutes...which I then still split with the videographers. Looking back, I should have told them they would just have to shoot around me (since I did all of the planning and research), but I did not do that. So, I had about 15-20 minutes to shoot when I had made plans for a good solid hour of ideas.
For the next 3 days, I could not sleep well because I was feeling so disappointed about not getting to do what I wanted. But, when it comes down to it...the images I did get are good (but not great), and my couple will be happy with them. Ideally in that situation, we would be with a couple who incredibly values what we do and gives us the freedom to go nuts. That was not the case, but we still had a job to do. Thankfully, our next two international weddings this year are with people who are super pumped to have us there.
EDIT: Don't get me wrong...the couple and their family/friends were great. Especially after the shooting days were done, we gelled with them very well. It was just a situation of differing priorities than most of our couples.
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