Picture Perfect
May 9, 2018 The Good: You hired a fabulous wedding photographer.
The Bad: Not so much with the baker.
The Ugly:
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This has to be the most beautiful photo of a Wreck I've ever seen. The fact that the photographer submitted it - along with tales of watching the baker catch the toppling cake with her bare, unwashed hands before serving it - only adds to the beauty.
And really, what's a photographer tasked with making a wedding Wreck look good supposed to do? Well, after careful study, I've come up with a few options.
Option 1: Try an action shot in the background.
"Ok, bride, groom? You two stand behind the cake here. Now...reach for that wineglass!"
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"Hmm, not quite enough action. Bride's dad? How about a running tackle?"
Option 2: Flowers
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"We're gonna need another bunch for the middle tier, stat."
Option 3: Blend it with a busy background.
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"Cake? What cake?"
Option 4: More flowers.
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No, seriously. MORE FLOWERS.
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Perfect.
You: But, Jen, those cakes look great!
Me: Exactly.
Option 5: When all else fails... PhotoShop
Take that Wreck from this...
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...to this!
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The irony, of course, is they'll pay more for the retouched photo than they did for the cake.
Oh, and to whoever starts a cake photo retouching service after reading this post: I want my cut.
Thanks to Wreckporters D Tyler Photography., Tiffany A., Jen A., Wendy T., Andrew Jordan Photography, Jennifer J., Jacq, Random, & Rebecca Z.
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Reader Comments (9)
DANG! The photographer cropped off the expression on the gentleman's face in picture 2. I want to see what he REALLY thought of the brown spotted cake-lump.
You could be on to something, here!! That, or maybe just ON something....That blur effect is making me confused!
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That last photo IS actually better than the one in focus! Wow!
The room with the “great-looking” cakes appears to be a funeral home, or a venue of some kind dressed up for a funeral. Is there such a thing as a venue wreck?
The blue and green blobs look like the frosting in tubes from the grocery store !!
I really hope these brides got their money back O_o
A poem I made up after I saw these cakes:
Polka dots and sloppy frosting,
I wonder how much those cake are costing,
Flowers try to cover up
These disasterous wedding cake flops
When all else fails photo shop is used
And the messy cakes become good as new!
@ R. -- Terrific poem.
On #1, if the bride has to depend on the baker to cut the cake, you KNOW the cake has got to be in trouble. I've never had to cut any wedding cake I made (venue did it), although the first time, I was concerned about the wooden dowels that I used as supports--I was reassured that they were used to those things. I'm still trying to figure out why there were snakes on the side of that silly ghastly cake!
Well I would have loved to see the bride's reaction to the cake. Any of those cakes lol.