This was a new one on me: At my nephew’s wedding, the bride and groom set up an old-fashioned-looking photo booth (actually a digital camera with a printer, but still a great idea). You walked into the booth, you took a few shots, you waited for the printout, you pasted it into a scrapbook and you wrote a few things next to your photos.

As you can see, you couldn’t exactly tell when the flash was going to go off. A shot-by-shot description:

Shot One: I’m trying to fix my hair (I just had come off the dance floor).

Shot Two: Who the hell knows?

Shot Three: I’m looking at the location of the flash, which was above the camera.

Shot Four: Finally got it right.

My wife pasted the photos in the scrapbook and wrote one of her favorite quotes all around the photo as a border. It’s carved along the entrance of Union Station in Washington, and it’s Shakespeare — it’s from King Henry VII:

Let all the aims thou aimst at be thy country’s, thy god’s and truth’s. Be noble and the nobleness in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

I have no idea what in this photo inspired her to pick that quote, but hey, there are worse philosophies.