Hilarious!

was laughing my guts out just now looking at photos from a muslim engagement i shot MOONS ago, and here goes the story of why it took so long (also, if any customers read this, take heed!!)

usually i will try to "insist" that if a couple chooses the slot in album from me, that i should do the selection and if there were shots in the CD that wasn't selected for print, you can still get them printed (that's wat the CD is for!).

but some brides would really love to do their own selection, to which i will agree. so i send the thumbnails thru, and await her selections before i send for print.

to cut a long story short, after 6 weeks... yes SIX WEEKS (with a couple of emails in between asking her to "hurry up leh!") she replies and says, she likes too many of the images and can't narrow it down to the agreed no. of prints to print, so has decided to let me choose instead.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ok no i'm not angry lar, just a GOOD story to tell people why i "insist" that i choose. here are the reasons why couples take FOREVER to choose photos if it were left to them:

1. they go for a LOOOOOOOONG honeymoon
2. after the LOOOOOOOONG honeymoon they have a HUUUUUUUUUUUUUGE back log of work to dive straight into.
3. when they finally find the time to sit down and choose photos, they dun usually agree on which photo is "valuable" enuff to print.
4. some get pregnant quickly or the process of getting pregnant, so they forget about their photos.
5. besides wedding photos to pick, they also have to pick honeymoon photos.

i could come up with more, but then it's 3am in the morning and i'm editing so i won't elaborate. and serious, i'm NOT making the above up, every single point is true! i have had a couple actually come over to do the selections till they argue quite heatedly until i have to say, ok u both go home, I CHOOSE, go home and make babies. go go! and they went.

ok BACK to hilarious part. so now i have to choose the photos right.. so i choose lor, and while going thru the photos, there were so many images that just brought back memories of the day, in particular, the bride and her girls wanted to do funny poses and asked me to suggest. i said, just be your silly selves and everytime the flash goes off, change ur silly pose and we should come up with something good. and there i go with at least 6 exposures with 3 different groups of girls, each of these shots netted possibly the most shameful photos that those girls have ever taken!! man... i laughed out loud in front of my computer until i had to recompose myself and continue choosing. no wonder the bride had difficulties!

point of this? photographs need not be artistic or even aesthetic, to induce emotions, to recall events, to remember how much we mean to each other. i am "just their photographer" (if you want to put it that way), but i was there, and i remember wat happened, and i smile that it did.

Congratulations on your engagement, Naime. your photos (SELECTED BY ME!) are on the way!!!! =)