Photo IQ

The 11 questions

• The light at five — You picked a five o’clock ceremony because five sounded right. The sun has its own schedule.
• The receiving line — Every guest hugs you on the way out of the ceremony. Lovely. How many minutes does it add? Slide.
• First look, or the aisle? — Not the romantic question. The schedule one: which gives the photographs more time?
• Thirty phones in the aisle — Your person is walking toward you. Between you and the photographer: everyone’s arm.
• The second shooter — Two houses to get ready in, a ceremony across town. The photographer offers a second shooter.
• When do we get the pictures? — The wedding was Saturday. Everyone wants the gallery by Wednesday. Slide to the real number of weeks.
• The flu, the night before — Your photographer, who you love, gets sick. What does the contract say happens next?
• The hair tie in every portrait — It lives on your wrist. Left alone, it lives in your pictures too.
• Just you and your own parents — The family list has both families together, twice. Is there one frame of you alone with yours?
• Two steps behind — The wedding party walks out one right after another, two steps apart, because quick feels polite.
• Three heads in the kiss — “You may now kiss.” The officiant is still standing right behind you, in the middle of the frame.