allycat0303
Ideal_Rock
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Hey ladies,
So this weekend, we went to take engagement photos. Now I KNOW I am not photogenic. I really am not. Eyes closed etc., whatever, it doesn't work. So the photographer took 200 pictures of us 200! And there was 1 useable shot. And it's not even that good. We ended up buying 1 picture of us kissing (so you can't see my face) and one picture of my fiance alone (because he looked good in everything) and 1 of us together (which was passable).
MY guy was vetoing the pictures because they were so awful, and he actually said to me 'Baby, don't worry you are a lot prettier in real life.' ARGH! WHO WANTS TO HEAR THAT! This happens in ordinary posed pictures too. I have like 4 photos on facebook because they were the only good ones of me. I mean the pictures don't even look like me. I am unrecognizable. I somehow have a double chin which I don't have in real lfe! Weird stretched out smiles. My sister kept patting me on the back and saying, 'it's ok, you don't look like that in real life' (or maybe she was trying to console me....)
It seems as though when the photographer asks us to pose, I can't do it!
So last night, we discussed our wedding photos. My fiancé really wants videography, and he feels we can forgoe the pictures because the ceremony will be taped anyways, so why subject me to furthur humiliation and cost. And we figure that we would have a lot of pictures taken by my friends and family, which will be spontaneous, so hopefully less hideous.
Something irks me about paying so much for pictures when I will look bad, and my guy doesn't care about them. And I get really stressed out at the thought of going through that again. It was a pretty confidence busting experience.
PS. Oops speeled the title wrong. I am really stressed out about this whole pictures stuff.
So this weekend, we went to take engagement photos. Now I KNOW I am not photogenic. I really am not. Eyes closed etc., whatever, it doesn't work. So the photographer took 200 pictures of us 200! And there was 1 useable shot. And it's not even that good. We ended up buying 1 picture of us kissing (so you can't see my face) and one picture of my fiance alone (because he looked good in everything) and 1 of us together (which was passable).
MY guy was vetoing the pictures because they were so awful, and he actually said to me 'Baby, don't worry you are a lot prettier in real life.' ARGH! WHO WANTS TO HEAR THAT! This happens in ordinary posed pictures too. I have like 4 photos on facebook because they were the only good ones of me. I mean the pictures don't even look like me. I am unrecognizable. I somehow have a double chin which I don't have in real lfe! Weird stretched out smiles. My sister kept patting me on the back and saying, 'it's ok, you don't look like that in real life' (or maybe she was trying to console me....)
It seems as though when the photographer asks us to pose, I can't do it!
So last night, we discussed our wedding photos. My fiancé really wants videography, and he feels we can forgoe the pictures because the ceremony will be taped anyways, so why subject me to furthur humiliation and cost. And we figure that we would have a lot of pictures taken by my friends and family, which will be spontaneous, so hopefully less hideous.
Something irks me about paying so much for pictures when I will look bad, and my guy doesn't care about them. And I get really stressed out at the thought of going through that again. It was a pretty confidence busting experience.
PS. Oops speeled the title wrong. I am really stressed out about this whole pictures stuff.