[quote=scaredyclassic]That’s part of it. But there’s more going on.
Hope, nostalgia
Beginnings
Clean slates.
Fear for them.
More shit too.
I tried to find the opposite of schadenfreude and one option was mitgefuhl. (Compassion, condolences) but not sure that’ll work. May need a whole new word.[/quote]
weddings confuse me. So much stupid ritual. I like those who think outside the box and do it their way, do it different. Not just the same old rituals because everyone else does them.
I’m also usually totally mystified on why the bride and groom picked each other. Very few times do I think “now there’s a great match!”.
We sort of psuedo-eloped for ours and so there are very few photos of it. I’ve dug them out recently and have been cleaning them up digitally…found a couple of good shots I didn’t know we had. Looking at it from almost a third party perspective now since so much time has passed, I bet people thought we were an odd couple too. The geek and the beauty. I sure looked geeky and had no idea that I looked that way.
I’m not sure I’m happy when I go to weddings. Amused. Curious. Mystified. Hopeful for them. Sometimes they enlist me as a second photographer because I’m great at capturing human spontaneous moments…they let the official photographer capture the ritualistic poses filled with stiff postures and fake smiles.
