Today Jeremy & I received our wedding photos in the mail...well, at least we thought we did. We used an online service, and ordered some photos to go in our thank-you cards, a few 8x10's, and one of each picture in the 4x6 size. I opened the box carefully, full of anticipation to view our special day in print.
The first packet of pictures I opened had a blonde little boy in the first photo. I was puzzled, especially since we had an adult-only wedding. Then as I browsed through the rest of them, I realized we were sent the wrong pictures! Instead of seeing my groom & me celebrating our love, we had about 200 pictures of someone else's children.
Naturally, I looked through all of them, curious to see how these strangers live and to see what they find important enough to photograph and print.
First of all, these people have/know dozens of different kids. There were kids at birthday parties, kids dressed up in costumes, kids at petting zoos. And they seemed to all be different children. My favorites were the petting zoo photos, in which these nameless children interacted with little goats and mini horses. There was even a picture of a goat's butt, so I'm glad to see this photographer at least has a sense of humor. There were also numerous, and I mean numerous, pictures of a man and different children being pulled by a mini-horse in a cart. This poor creature, I thought, works day in and day out to tote kids around--and not even as transportation, but just for fun.
After I looked through enough photos to feel slightly inappropriate, Jeremy sent a quick email to the company, and our real pictures are now on their way in the mail. I am just left to wonder who these mystery people are, and if they in turn possibly received our wedding photos. I like to imagine them anticipating seeing a goat's anus, and seeing me instead.
