Recording the Moment (Weddings)

Recording the Moment (Weddings)

Do we have to record it?
Isn't looking enough, experiencing the moment?
So many photographs, so many videos,
Where do they all go?
Left in the bottom of drawers
To be sorted out after death and possibly thrown away;
Or kept by the next generation as a reminder of their past.

It's possible to regret not having recorded the moment
But does it really matter?
Do we need to be reminded?
Can't we keep it in our memories?
Or is memory unreliable?
Maybe it's easier to keep memories, so called, in a drawer
Or in a photo album.

While recording the moment
We could be missing the moment
As it really should have been!
The action of filming
Could spoil the moment,
Causing it to become stiff and unnatural
Or isn't that important?

Is the record of an unnatural moment
What we want
When we could be relaxing and enjoying it
As it should be?
Do we need all these records of unnatural moments?
Where will they all end up?
Or isn't it worth considering?

Do the next generation
Want to spend hours pouring over old photos
Trying to imagine how it really was?
Will they have the time?
Isn't looking forward and considering the future more important
Than looking back,
Or am I missing something here?

Do these records serve as a link
Through the generations?
How accurate will the impression be from an old photo
When there was so much more to it?
Maybe every guest should write their own version
Of how it really was
Or would this be getting too uncomfortably near the truth?