[QUOTE=Anne Neville]
Awwww! I hope you got a picture of that and sent it to labtrash. Flat Stanley gets married…
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Oooh…good idea! I wasn’t there at the time, but the teachers are really good about taking photos of the kids’ various activities. (It’s so cute, they do a little newsletter every week, keeping the parents up to date on what they’ve been doing in class. The include the photos of the kids, pictures of their artwork, they write up some of the stories the kids tell, it’s awesome.) I will ask if they got any good pics of Flat Stanley’s wedding!
[QUOTE=cher3]
Hide it in the attic for decades until people start to marvel at your mysteriously youthful appearance?
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Only on the Dope!
[QUOTE=InvisibleWombat]
You’re quite right. It screams vanity.
I find it amusing that all of the Google ads in this thread are about guns.
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If you added target hairs and gave the kids darts, that would keep them occupied through the reception. You’d probably want an adult supervising.
On a slightly more serious note, at my son’s wedding they displayed a rather large copy of their engagement photo, together with pens so that guests could sign it. It’s now sometimes on display in their house as a keepsake.
[QUOTE=panache45]
In the photo of the horse-drawn carriage . . . isn’t the groom sitting next to the cake, not the bride?
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That’s not the cake, that’s the bride.
I think.
[QUOTE=Atrael]
This is what I figured. At our wedding, we had a larger portrait of us both next to the entrance where people could sign the matt around the picture instead of a guest book. It’s a nice picture, that also has some good words from family and loved ones. But that sounds a bit different than what is going on here.
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Yeah, that’s pretty typical–an “engagement portrait” of the bride and groom with a large mat around for the guests to sign. But a bride-only portrait at a wedding? I can’t recall every seeing that around here, and certainly not anything approaching the sizes discussed here, even if they are a little exaggerated. (Then again, I’m the working photographer for the wedding, so if I saw such a thing, I would have probably been responsible for it.) I do know of photographers who do pre-wedding bridal portraits (even here in Chicago, although it’s more a Southern high-society thing, as I understand it), but I’ve never heard of the situation described in the OP.
[QUOTE=lobotomyboy63]
The photographer wants to make a ton of money, IMO. The markup on the pictures is insane and a special item like that…$$$.
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If the photographer is suggesting it without mentioning the fact that it’s an extra charge, that’s a bit unethical, in my opinion. I would hope that this is something included in his package or perhaps something he’ll shoot “on spec,” hoping that you like it so much that you will buy it. I really don’t get the sense the photographer is going “Oh, I’d love to take a life-size portrait of you,” take and print the photos, and then, after the fact, say “Oh, by the way, that’s $250” or something like that. I doubt that’s the case, especially if this is hubby-to-be’s friend.
Prints are certainly a huge revenue stream for certain wedding photographers (I don’t emphasize print sales personally, opting to focus on making money through shooting and album sales), but if the photographer is putting in time to clean up and otherwise QC the final photos, then, to me, it’s worth the money. When I send my own personal work to a professional custom lab, I get charged around $40 for an 8x10. I obviously don’t offer this to my clients, since most people would balk at a $55 or so price for an 8x10 print.
[QUOTE=cher3]
What on earth would you do with it after the reception? Hide it in the attic for decades until people start to marvel at your mysteriously youthful appearance?
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This deserves recognition. Bravo, sir!
ETA: Or ma’am, as it may be.
I have a friend who, at her parents’ insistence, had a photo like **Siege **is describing at her reception. It’s now hanging in her parents’ house next to their own wedding pictures.