Dropped grooms wedding band yesterday!

7 years 8 months ago #490276 by Great Moments
What a weekend.  Yesterday while shooting a wedding I had the both rings on a church bench to photograph that was rich with dark wood grains.  While changing lenses I accidentally knocked my camera bag over, which fell onto the wedding band.  This caused the ring to fall off the bench and roll about 7 feet  before it fell in the ONLY crack in the floor to a subfloor under the churches main floor!!

Nothing could be done yesterday or today.  The churches care taker will be there tomorrow and will find a way to get to the ring.  

What a weekend!


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7 years 8 months ago #490364 by Crammer
Oh man, that must have been rough.  How did the couple take it?  


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7 years 8 months ago #490382 by J Photo Man
That sounds like a rough day indeed!  Hope they are able to find the ring tomorrow!  


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7 years 8 months ago #490471 by phaller
Oh no! What a terrible accident. But I hope the couple was understanding as accidents do happen. 


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7 years 8 months ago #490510 by Josh Jofoto
I'm sure that had to been a rough conversation letting them know what happened.  Were you able to find the ring? 

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7 years 8 months ago #490588 by Great Moments
Thank you for all the comments.  Actually the ring wasn't found till late in the day yesterday.  And yes, it has been very interesting discussions with the bride and groom AND the mother of the bride.  :pinch:


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7 years 8 months ago #490675 by Sarah Ramirez
Hey, it happens to the best of it. Hopefully those interesting discussions have gone okay and that all is now well. Keep us updated!


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7 years 8 months ago #490688 by Amanda Davis
Boy you lucked out there.  Sorry that you had to go through all that!  


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7 years 8 months ago #490708 by Rob Conley
+1


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7 years 8 months ago #490806 by Pettigrew
How much did they have to tear apart to find the ring?  I'm sure the couple was thrilled the ring was found.  Crummy luck, however happy all worked out. 

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7 years 8 months ago #490863 by Garbo
That's a crummy situation, well at least it turned out good in the end.  Hopefully! 

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7 years 8 months ago #491476 by Ted Baker
I cringed reading about your situation because the same thing almost happened to me last year.  The difference is that I was photographing a wedding on 4 pontoon boats and the ring that my assistant dropped almost fell off the boat into the lake!  

My heart leaped!   Oh, and the ring my assistant almost dropped into the lake, wasn't the grooms.  It was one of the bands to the wifes, and it had a ton of diamonds on it.  Yikes!  close call differed!!  


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7 years 8 months ago #491528 by Peter Nunez

Ted Baker wrote: I cringed reading about your situation because the same thing almost happened to me last year.  The difference is that I was photographing a wedding on 4 pontoon boats and the ring that my assistant dropped almost fell off the boat into the lake!  

My heart leaped!   Oh, and the ring my assistant almost dropped into the lake, wasn't the grooms.  It was one of the bands to the wifes, and it had a ton of diamonds on it.  Yikes!  close call differed!!  


I bet you were ready to jump into the lake with your camera after the ring!  


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