Know your Hymns Know your Onions
Hymn Discipline™ is one of the most overlooked aspects of wedding photography, and one where most keen hobbyists fall down flat on their tiny faces time after time after time. To avoid cock-ups and mishaps during the overlong tedious Church ceremony you must know your hymns like the back of your hand. Let's take one of my all time favourites, Jerusalem by William Blake.
So there you are at the back of the Church - you should always be at the back of the Church. The music starts up - Ah! Jerusalem! 2 minutes 55 seconds of pure joy.
We're off. Outside. Light a fag. Speed smoke. Cough, Spit. Vodka. Stick your head round the door.
"... And was the holy lamb of God
On England's pleasant pastures seen"
Back out. Hip flask. Vodka. Roast Chicken crisps. Can of diet Red Bull. Light a fag. Smoke half of it. Back in.
"...Jerusalem builded here
Among those dark Satanic mills"