Photographer Confessions

You guys are in for a treat today! In this episode we are spilling the tea on some photographer confessions. Below are all of the stories people anonymously submitted!

Honeybook messed up my dates and I accidentally double booked a wedding day. I realized it when I sat down to a in person consultation with the couple. EEEKKK! The worst part was it was during covid and all my dates switched around so I later had the date available. My friend asked me to second shoot a wedding for her and it ended up being theirs ugh!

I was about to leave a wedding and a full on brawl broke out over the top of me…. Literally on top of me. It was quite the exit…

I had a client throw a fit about distractions in the background. She was an aerialist who was having her photos taken on a ranch suspended over a pool.

I had a florist bring flowers to a styled shoot. The flowers were atrocious! I put them in some of the pictures but not a lot of them. She was very upset. I ended up paying her for the flowers and her time. But it bugs me to this day! Should I have told her that I couldn't use the flowers because they were ugly?

I shot a wedding where the bride decided to serve alcohol before the ceremony. People were outside puking before the reception even started… The maid of honor got so drunk she couldn’t even make her toast. I learned that day to ALWAYS tell brides that food needs to be served with alcohol.

I started dating a guy and we later found out that he was the brother to one of my brides. We stopped seeing each other about a week before the wedding. Needless to say the wedding day was a little awkward. But I ended up meeting his best friend and hit it off. Totally unprofessional but slightly satisfying…

I was at a wedding where the videographer's assistant literally lit the venue on fire multiple times during the day by tossing cigarettes onto the ground. People had to grab buckets of water to put the fires out. The worst part is that there was a huge fire that was burning in the area at the time.

A recent wedding that I did where there was at least 15 biker gang members in attendance, wearing the gang patch vests, teardrop tattoos on the face, and all the uniform. And then, as we were trying to take pictures of them at the reception, they kept holding up baggies of shrooms to have in the picture. They were seriously the NICEST people though.

There was a guest at the wedding dressed in head to toe white that we were not allowed to get on camera because he was in the middle of a "spiritual journey" and left the monastery for the wedding. He wasn't supposed to be around people.. It was kind of a strange series of events.

We got accused of losing the rings before the ceremony even though multiple people saw the main photographer hand them back to the maid of honor. There was literally a panic hunt for the rings that delayed the ceremony and they ended up finding them somewhere else but never told us where they found them or apologizing for the accusations.

Not wedding related but a hunter once shot a gun right above (barley missed) the judge and myself during a hunting tournament, because he didn’t know he could call safety. Needless to say I only shoot for hunters that are experienced and know gun safety now.

I did a family photo session (young couple, young kids) and I deliver the gallery full of super cute images. When the Mom posts some on Instagram she had Face Tuned her head so she looks like she was skinnier. But it was way too under scaled so her head just looked super small on her body. And she then tags me in the photo on Instagram. It was so obvious. And also like, did you think I wasn’t gonna notice?

I was shooting an engagement session on our farm and the mother of the groom loved our baby calves. While I was shooting, she asked me what we did with them and I told her we beefed them out when they got to age. She screamed and started crying and called me a murderer and threatened to let the calves out to run and be free. The groom apologized and bought some of our beef to try. Fast forward to the wedding day I was in the bridal suite taking pictures of the bride and the mother of the groom walks in and she looks right at me and says don't you love my skirt. It's a vintage suede skirt from an antique store. And she had on brown fringed cowboy boots. After the wedding I got in the car with the bride and groom to go take pictures and he turned around laughing because he knew his Mom wore that skirt in spite of me and he had to apologize again.

When I showed up at the hotel to start photographing the wedding day with some getting ready photos, the bride quietly said to me, "My mother-in-law is going to ask you to take some photos of her, and I apologize in advance." I'm thinking no big deal; "that's why I'm here". A little while later, her mother-in-law comes into the room, walks up to me, and says, "take sexy pictures of me" I said, "excuse me?" Thinking I may have misheard her. As she climbed on the hotel bed and sat there on all fours, she repeated, "take sexy pictures of me." I looked at the bride as she hung her head low in embarrassment; not knowing what to say or do, I looked back at her mother-in-law, snapped a couple of pictures, and said: "okay, all done."

This other client, sweet older lady, took black background with her horses. Upon getting the proofs she told me there must be something wrong with my camera (which almost gave me a heart attack). She went on to say it was because it made her look old. She looked really good in them, but she is an older lady so of course I had to laugh but I also wanted to be like, I am not a miracle worker, lady! UGH! :)

Friends I hope this was as fun for you as it was for Katherine and I! If you want to send in your stories for the next photographer confessions podcast you can email them to lauren@laurenmaevephotography.com