Having Fun with Your Wedding Photos

Having Fun with your Wedding Photos

Gone are the days of the stoic wedding pictures. You know the ones we’ve all been a part of at one time or another. It goes something like this:

Photographer: “OK. Just the Bride and Groom”

Bride: “Wait, I need one with my dad.”

Photographer: (Sigh) “OK, dad. Get in there. Groom, why don’t you come on out for a sec.”

Bride: “No! I want him in the middle, between us!”

…And so on and so on. You can practically feel the tension rising with each passing pose, as the wedding party, who by this point is tired and probably hungry, is getting more and more aggravated

they have to continue to stand by and wait for the meal they were promised.

Michael Anderson, who makes his living photographing weddings, and also serves as the official photographer for Cabarrus Magazine, says, “It used to be about not having the same wedding as your mother. Now, it’s not having the same wedding as your friend.” And that is not limited to the pictures that serve as the reminder of this momentous day. From Star Wars themes to zombies, there seems to be no limit to the lengths some couples will go to in order to have the “most epic wedding picture in history.” Some of the pictures Anderson says the happy couples put him up to are a little too risqué for this publication. But we’ve selected a few you might enjoy! ■