Thanks Bob, I enjoyed your story very much! Just one correction, I'm
the father of the groom, not the bride. Just the same, your advice is
well taken. Now, I wonder where my wedding photos are at, from 25 years
ago???
Quoting Bob Whitmire <bwhitmire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: Bob Whitmire once said:
>
> I know I'm going to get in trouble for this, but . . .
>
> Esteemed Wife and I have been married 35 years as of the last day of
> this month. I hope we can go another 35, but that's just wishful
> thinking. Every year the marriage just gets deeper and richer and
> more fulfilling. Right now, if you put a gun to her head and told me
> to produce our wedding photos, I couldn't do it. Not one of them.
> They've not been seen for years. Oh, they're not gone, just buried
> somewhere, and very likely the emulsion has cemented them together so
> that only a few will be viewable if and when we find them. (And we're
> not looking.)
>
> Could be Number One Son will stumble across them after we're gone and
> get a good laugh at the sight of his father's hair sticking out wider
> than his tuxedoed shoulders. He might even be forced to acknowledge
> that Mom weren't bad. Weren't bad atall. <g>
>
> I'm not saying I wouldn't enjoy seeing them again, but in much the
> same way I enjoy looking at old pictures in museums. We've gone
> through so many physical and spiritual transformations between then
> and now it would be like looking at pictures of people we vaguely
> recall knowing a long time ago (except we wouldn't have to wonder
> what happened to them).
>
> Speaking only for myself here. I don't know how others and their
> spouses feel, but I'd say get someone reasonably competent with a
> camera and hope for the best. Enjoy the wedding. The experience is
> what matters, and this is one the father of the bride ought not enjoy
> through a viewfinder.
>
> --Bob Whitmire
> www.bwp33.com
>
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One Happy Snappy,
jv
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