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This is not your father’s wedding… From choosing china patterns and invitation designs to color schemes and reception halls, today’s grooms are expected to play a much more active role in wedding planning than when their dads walked down the aisle. The Clueless Groom’s Guide offers the 3 million men who get married each year lighthearted commiseration, guidance, and a distinctly male take on the entire process of planning a traditional wedding. Filled wit… More >>
The Clueless Groom’s Guide : More Than Any Man Should Ever Know About Getting Married
If the rest of this book is anything like the section on wedding videography, the author does his readers a great disservice. Evidently, Mr. van Dijk felt he needed a comic-villain to ridicule.
His stereotyping of professional videographers and what we do (yes, I’m one of them) is insulting, based on ignorance, and many years out of date (”ugly Klieg light”? Excuse me? They’re almost 100 years old!). Extremely light-sensitive cameras have been around for several years. We don’t blind you any more.
Apparently, the author wasn’t happy with the person who recorded his wedding. Therefore, he has made it his mission to convince others that they too will be unhappy. Never mind that your children and grandchildren (not to mention even YOU) might cherish your video 25 or 50 years from now, the great van Dijk has spoken!
Are some videographers “miserable little cretins”? I suppose so – just like some photographers, bakers, and authors. But the vast majority of us perform a valuable and creative service for our clients, and take pride in preserving the most important day in a young couple’s life.
One star for at least trying to be funny. So you’re going to buy this book anyway? “Fine, be that way. But don’t come crying to me, Wedding Boy. I told you so. I told you so. I told you so. I told you so.”
Rating: 1 / 5