{"id":1081,"date":"2010-11-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jorj.org:4433\/?p=1081"},"modified":"2010-11-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-07T00:00:00","slug":"Bridal Bouquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/?p=1081","title":{"rendered":"Bridal Bouquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/101107-bridal_bouquet.jpg'><img decoding=\"async\" class='alignnone size-full' title=\"Bridal Bouquet\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/101107-bridal_bouquet.jpg\" alt=\"Bridal Bouquet\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>German weddings are complicated.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, there are two ceremonies. Even though the government recognizes religion (and collects a &#8220;tax&#8221; that they give to your designated religion[!]), the German government doesn&#8217;t recognize church weddings. So first, the happy couple goes to the local town hall and gets legally &#8220;married,&#8221; and then they have a follow-up religious service.<\/p>\n<p>And those are typically a few days apart.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding I just shot had its state service on Wednesday; a follow-up party that afternoon; the religious service on Saturday; and a huge blow-out party afterward.<\/p>\n<p>Lighting for the latter half was quite challenging. The religious service started at 4:30 PM, in a deep valley between two mountains, in a wooden building with exposed timbers (brown walls\/ceiling\/floor). I had along two speedlights and an IR remote, but no brollies\/stands\/snoots\/reflectors\/Alien Bees.<\/p>\n<p>This shot is from the party after the state wedding. Clearly I miss my TLRs and Bessas; I kept finding the square \ud83d\ude42 Now I can&#8217;t wait to develop the 15 rolls of 120 from the Mamiya, but that has to wait another week before it can commence&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German weddings are complicated.<\/p>\n<p>To begin with, there are two ceremonies. Even though the government recognizes religion (and collects a &#8220;tax&#8221; that they give to your designated religion[!]), the German government doesn&#8217;t recognize church weddings. So first, the happy couple goes to the local town hall and gets legally &#8220;married,&#8221; and then they have a follow-up religious service.<\/p>\n<p>And those are typically a few days apart.<\/p>\n<p>The wedding I just shot had its state service on W &#8230;<a href='\/blog\/?p=1081'>[more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.k8s.jorj.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}