At a wedding where the spirit of love and unity should’ve been as free-flowing as the open bar, a photographer found themselves in the parched lands of no food, no drink, and an ultimatum that could quench neither thirst nor hunger. Tasked with capturing the joyous moments of a friend’s wedding for a humble fee of $250, our photographer embarked on what was supposed to be a day filled with smiles, not stomach rumbles.
The gig, which stretched from the hopeful beginnings of 11 a.m. to the weary hours of 7:30 p.m., promised to be a marathon of matrimonial bliss. However, as the wedding party sat down to feast, our hero was bluntly informed that their role was to shoot, not chew. The reception, it seemed, was a BYOB affair – Bring Your Own Burger.
Driven to the brink by dehydration and the tantalizing aroma of untouched hors d’oeuvres, the photographer made a modest request: twenty minutes to hydrate and pretend they were part of the human race that requires sustenance. The groom’s response? A choice between continuing to capture the event on an empty stomach or leaving sans payment.
Faced with such hospitality, the photographer did what any self-respecting artist would do: they deleted all the photos right in front of the groom and declared their job there done. It was a moment of reckoning, a digital mic drop that echoed through the halls of Reddit when the tale was shared, asking if they were in the wrong for erasing a day’s worth of memories over the absence of a sandwich.
The internet, that grand jury of our time, was divided. Some hailed the photographer as a hero standing up against the tyranny of tightwads, while others mourned the bride’s loss of her special day’s visuals, all because of a culinary oversight.
What could have been solved with a simple cheeseburger or even a tuna wrap led to a fallout that no one could have predicted. This tale serves as a cautionary whisper in the ears of all future wedding planners: feed your photographers, lest your memories be nothing more than tales told on social media, a lesson in hospitality learned too late.
