{"id":54,"date":"2008-07-22T11:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreyann.net\/blog\/?p=54"},"modified":"2008-07-22T11:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T16:00:01","slug":"corey-talks-feeding-the-monster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coreyann.com\/blog\/corey-talks\/corey-talks-feeding-the-monster","title":{"rendered":"Corey Talks: Feeding the Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corey Talks:\u00a0 Feeding the Monster<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It’s your wedding day!\u00a0 Yippie!\u00a0 You’ve got everything on a list, down to the minute, you spent hours planning this wedding and finally – after 3 (THREE!) days of agonizing work, you have your seating chart ready to go and perfect.\u00a0 There’s one little thing you forgot that will screw up your works.\u00a0 That’s me, your photographer.\u00a0 How is that?\u00a0 Not in the way you are thinking but because you didn’t plan for a place for me to sit.\u00a0 <\/em>Nor did you plan on having me eat with the guests.\u00a0 So now you are in a pickle and wondering what to do and I feel like a goober for asking if there is a place for me at the reception.\u00a0\u00a0So here’s this post to hopefully get you to remember your photographer when the time comes to plan your reception.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

I don’t currently write it into my contract that I get food – as many photographers do.\u00a0 I used to be a Knottie (got married last year!) and I remember a pretty vibrant post where a bride was very upset that a photographer DARED to want to be fed.\u00a0 Since then, I’ve been very cautious about adding it to a contract because I do not want that to be a dealbreaker like I saw it was for her.\u00a0 This being said, I am human.\u00a0 I am going to probably be just as starving as you are going to be 6+ hours after we started especially when that food starts rolling out.\u00a0 At that point, without a seat and a plate of food, I am going to have to excuse myself to some other room to chow the food I brought and take a moment to get a breather as NO bride wants pictures of her chewing and it’s my first time during the day (and the only most likely) that I’ll get a chance to use the restroom and sit down for a moment.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you think ahead and plan me in your seating arrangements, things will go a lot smoother for both of us.\u00a0 More often than not,\u00a0I take the place of Great Aunt Edith who couldn’t make it that day due to her cat being ill, there is always someone that doesn’t show up last minute but rarely are there MORE people than you expected at the reception. \u00a0Sometimes I have heard of venues comping vendor meals and\/or having reduced rate meals if you are uncomfortable with the idea of not paying for me in advance.\u00a0 Not only will I be eternally grateful, but then I’ll be able to capture any moments that happen during the dinner hour that I wouldn’t be able to capture if I was in a different room.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Don’t think that I take my “time off” lightly.\u00a0 In a perfect world I am seated close to the bride and grooms table so that when dinner is served, I’m one of the first to get fed so I’m done before most of the guests.\u00a0 I then take that time to take all the fun detail shots that many of you brides have requested.\u00a0 I like to do this while you are eating dinner because rarely are people asking to see your rings at that time but the rest of the day they are wanting to see them and a lot of times I do not have the time or the rings before the ceremony to do much beforehand.\u00a0 So I usually wolf down my food and then run off into the batcave with the rings and take shots that will have you asking “when did she do THAT?” later.\u00a0 I am usually done playing by the time you are done eating and have your rings back just in time to go socialize!\u00a0<\/p>\n

I end this with telling you that I love cake… and especially wedding cake.\u00a0 So either way, paid meal or not… at some point after the cake is cut you will find me with cake breath.\u00a0 That’s the only reason I do this job.\u00a0 I just happen to have a talent to get me closer to the cake… \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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