On her wedding day, every bride wants to be special and the only one. And near the registry office, there are crowds of happy future wives nervously biting their lips.
Why do you need extra envious glances? Next. The registry office ceremony itself is a separate story:
Very little time is allotted, everything is done very quickly, according to a template - and off you go, conveyor belt. It's very funny when, leaving the registry office to take a ceremonial photo with the guests, the second couple starts to come out, and almost a war begins for a place "under the registry office" with screaming registry office women so that everyone quickly runs away, now the third couple will come out.
As a rule, the hosts of the wedding ceremony are tired and middle-aged women, whose salary does not cover the boredom and monotony of their work. And imagine the same thing all your life, chewing over the same text, the same movements. In Kyiv 7 minutes, in other cities it is different. Sometimes up to an hour.
Very often these hosts also look sad. It is possible that somewhere there are tastefully dressed and well-groomed women, but, as a rule, this is some kind of elegant dress, outwardly very similar to a wide nightgown, a kind of hybrid of Philip Kirkorov at a final concert and Alla Pugacheva in a robe.
And I am also surprised by all sorts of standard rituals. And not those that have been around since time immemorial, as a tribute to tradition (towels, bowing to parents). About a year ago, I wrote a lot about them (see the "news" section). I am talking about those that every non-Kiev registry office comes up with. They seem to want to decorate a boring ceremony, to bring "originality" to it. But the grave will fix the hunchback, as they say. This includes terrible candles with glitter, which are presented as a symbol of the family hearth, which goes out even before leaving the hall, and congratulations from the mayor with certificates.
The fact that it is boring is usually confirmed by the lion's share of guests, who, if they do not yawn openly (after all, they are filming a video), then certainly dream about it. And how do you like Verka Serduchka instead of Mendelssohn's waltz? I had such a clinical case in my practice. I will not put a smiley face, because all this is scary. The list of such "upgrades" of registry office ceremonies can be continued for quite a long time.
And the most chic of the registry office is their local, completely unobtrusive photographers. With green photos taken on the cheapest cameras and lenses, which the professionals call "plugs". This is because such lenses are only good for covering the camera with them, so that dust does not get on the matrix. And how do you like a standard video for 350 UAH? If you do not buy it, they will catch up and give it to you for 250. I have seen this many times. And they edit your video "on the fly". It's just that you are about fifteenth today. The other fourteen have the same flights, the same angles, the same clapping hands. And that's just for today. And it was yesterday and the day before yesterday, and so on, day after day, year after year, everyone has the same video. Only the faces change. Do you still feel special? Harsh - I know! But it's true. They just don't talk about it. But that's exactly how it happens.
And for dessert - the interior. I don't argue, more or less decent halls have already begun to appear. But a large number remain in a terribly deplorable state.
So, we are now smoothly approaching the fact that today's newlyweds are terribly lucky, because they have the opportunity to organize an off-site ceremony, choose a registrar, a place and the format of the holiday.
And more about this in the next article.
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