The Dog Who Stole The Rings

I photographed a wedding a few years ago at a ski resort. Since the wedding was during the summer there wasn’t any snow on the runs that led down the mountain to the chalet where the wedding was to be held. The groom thought it would be a great thing to have his dog wear the rings on his collar during the wedding. At the rehearsal the pastor said:  “what token did you bring to seal this union”? The groom said: “A ring”, then whistled. Around the corner of the building came his dog (it was held in a van by the groom’s buddy) The dog ran up to the groom, and sat down by the groom’s leg. Everyone smiled and thought that is a great touch.

The next day, at the wedding, all went as planned, till it can time for the dog to make his entrance.  The pastor said his words, the groom said his words, and whistled. The dog came around the corner (The 500 guests said in unison: “Ah, isn’t that cute”!), and came to a screeching halt. He had just seen a moose on the hillside, and gave chase.

The bride is now without her rings, and crying loudly. The groom now looks like a jerk.

Her mom gets out of the crowd and gives her own wedding band to her daughter. She then tells the groom: “We will talk about this later”!!
I was still photographing at the reception (held at the same location) for another 4 hours, and the dog never did come back.

Moral of the story: Don’t trust a dog with the REAL rings!!

The Cake was Too Tall

I photographed a Greek-Orthodox wedding a few years ago, and at the reception I saw the tallest cake I had ever seen.  It was a 7-layer cake, with each layer separated by a series of pedestals. The whole thing was 7-foot tall!! The caterer put the cake under a ceiling cool-air vent since it was so hot in the room.

At the start of the reception the bride & groom, both sets of parents, and the priest were at the entrance to the reception hall, where they were going through a wedding-custom ceremony. All at once someone yelled: “The cake is falling”!!

Sure enough, the cake was leaning over at a real steep angle.  The waiters ran to the cake and tried to hold it upright. A lot good that did. The cake did fall, and only 3 layers were saved.
While the cake-mess was being cleaned up, I saw why the cake fell so easily: Each cake-layer was made of angle-food cake, split in two, with strawberry jam layered between the two sections.

The cool air coming from the vent above caused the cake to topple.

Moral of the story: Short/flat cakes are better!!