Last summer, I had a gig shooting a wedding. As you might expect, part of the job involved photographing the wedding parties preparing for the ceremony about an hour before. As the male photographer on the team, I naturally did the guys.
Big wedding party. Twelve people, including the groom. These guys were all readying their tuxes, boutonnieres, etc. About half of them were doing just fine until they got to the tie.
The Tie. Couldn’t tie a tie. Mind you, we’re dealing with men in their mid to late twenties, and they couldn’t tie their ties. These were Standard or Straight Line ties, not bowties or that big floofy thing that JP Morgan might have worn a hundred years ago. Just a plain old tie.
So I put the camera down and began tying ties for them. A half-windsor production line. It was kind of funny, but in retrospect, it was just sort of a commentary on…
