Wedding Bloopers; Grab Your Popcorn!

[Tabor Warren Photography]

So, I had quite the experience at a wedding today and thought I would share to see if anyone else has suffered from a wedding blooper on a greater or lesser scale.

My wife and I had just arrived at the church and were ready to go to work. The bride was ready to get going so I volunteered to take the dress shot on the FF w/ the 17-40L, (as I do for essentially every wedding). The bride, who is also a photographer, mentioned that she found a great place for the dress shot. It was in a mid-size bathroom, but the room had a beautiful window with some stain glass and an ornate mirror and did look like a fine place for the picture. I was having a hard time finding a place to hang the dress and opted to place the hook between the ceiling tiles and the trim...

CRASH!!! The ENTIRE ceiling came down!!! There was dust everywhere and needless to say it was rather hard to breathe in or around the room. I spoke with the pastor who was incredibly nice and forgiving and he said they are in the middle of remodeling that bathroom anyway. I'm sending him a check on Monday though, if nothing else to make me feel better. The wedding session ended up being a complete success despite how it began, (thank goodness).

So, am I alone or is there anyone else out there with a wedding blooper?

-Tabor

 

[agierke]

i got two off the top of my head....

the first i came across was actually when i was working at a commercial lab. i ran all the E6 and C41 film so i saw ALOT of photography from many sources. one memorable roll came through with a 3 shot series that just dropped my jaw. 1st shot was bride and groom coming out of the church with arms raised about to walk down the steps (see where this is going?). 2nd shot everyone starts throwing rice, grooms arms still in the air and smiling....bride has started to stumble and is going down. 3rd shot everyone faces show realization of what disaster is about to happen, grooms face has an "oh @#%&" look and his arm is being pulled down as he starts to stumble while the bride has both arms completely outstretched and her face about an inch off the ground about to eat some serios pavement. there was no 4th shot.

the second instance i was a 2nd shooter on. we were at the brides place with her getting ready. the flowers arrive and are placed on the coffee table. the main shooter starts shooting the bouquet and arranges some small candles that were lit on the table around the flowers (mind you they were already there and lit...we didnt initiate that). she finishes up and goes back to shooting the bride. a couple minutes later someone comments on smelling something burning...we all start looking around and then suddenly POOF! brides bouquet bursts into flames. we scrambled to put it out and with some creative trimming and rearrangement the bride still had a bouquet.