Dearest Limo Driver:
We can only image how difficult your job must be and we can certainly understand why it’s considered, by you many, to be one of the most difficult jobs of the wedding day. All that putting the car and in out of park, steering and deciding between which pedal is the brake and which is the gas. And lest we forget all of those rowdy drunks partying in the back of your always meticulously maintained ride on the most important day of their lives. It’s probably quite the distraction!
But even under all that stress, you’re still able to save the day find the time to make to make all those helpful portrait suggestions to us. We love to hear about your ideal picture taking locations and without your help we’d probably never remember to have the bride lay across the groomsmens arms and we would certainly forget to lay the flowers out around the bottom of the dress. Silly us!
With this intense pressure to perform how could the Bride & Groom expect you to know where the reception is having only booked you six months prior. It’s not like everyone can afford a GPS or sort out those non-user friendly Google maps. We’ll always let you follow us, just ask. Heck we’ll even provide you turn by turn instructions, it’s not like we have anything better to do. Not to mention, it’s you limo drivers that keeps us all on time reminding us every 5 minutes that there is somewhere else to be.
We salute you, limo drivers of the world, for making the wedding day happen. Your diligence and attention to detail is apparent week in and week out. Keep up the good work and thanks for all the countless times you’ve saved our bacon.
- Your friends the “Photographers”
Would you to thank a limo driver? Leave a note for them in the comments below. I’m sure they will appreciate it.
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18 Comments at "An Open Letter To Limo Drivers Everywhere"
Too funny… I had one graciously call me “flashcube”
Wow, so even the limo drivers are art directors! I usually have a guest “remind” me to put the flowers along the dress hem, but never (yet!) a limo driver.
I did just have a video guy who couldn’t understand why we wouldn’t want to do formal portraits in front of the altar of the church. Yeesh.
PS: When we are following you to the “super secret location” you know about, please do not run every.single.red.light. If I get pulled over, you won’t have pictures of that “awesome” location to show off to future clients.
Dear Limo Drivers,
Thank you for convincing the bride in the limo that you know of better locations and proceeding to take her to them without letting us photographers know, and losing us in traffic because you think you missed your calling as a Nascar driver. I really appreciate your creative direction and willingness to jeopardize your bride & groom’s wedding memories.
Thanks again,
Amber
(Three drivers this summer did this to me. I am not a granny driver!! And I couldn’t keep up. I think they think because they’re bigger than can run red lights.)
Corey Ann – I must have been typing when you commented – too funny!
I would like to thank the limo driver who repeatedly yelled at me that I MUST get the couple from THIS EXACT angle, despite my explaining to him why the angle was awful. Thank you, Mr. Driver, for wasting my time as I realized that the only way to get you to leave me alone would be to actually take a photo from said angle and show you just how awful the shadows were in that location. The couple really appreciated laughing at you, as you slinked away discouraged and proven wrong, and I appreciated finally being left alone
Keep em coming these are great!
How long until the first limo driver flames us?
I had a slightly different experience that demonstrated the true fortitude of this crucial job…the bridal party had meticulously decorated the outside of the SUV limo they had with signs, streamers, etc., and under the watchful eye of the limo driver. Needless to say, all of it remained on the outside as we got on the interstate 80 on-ramp. The sign on the side of the limo was the first to go. Then came every single one of the 10 large window-clings in rapid succession. The streamers hung on for a surprisingly long time. I’d have thought she might have pulled off after it started and removed the rest in order to keep the wedding debris from littering half of Pennsylvania. Not so. She trucked on doing 70mph until the giant “just married” sign shot off the back like a wedding RPG over my car and smashing into the grill of the FedEx tractor-trailer behind me. If a limo could have been the Peanuts character Pig-Pen, this was it. It must have taken all the driver’s courage to keep on truckin’ in the face of such trying circumstances. I have no doubt she went back after the reception and picked up the 5 mile-long trail of wedding debris.
Last weekend the driver didn’t show at the end of the reception. The BG left in the grooms car driven by the best man, and the Limo driver (who was supposed to have a Rolls Royce) drives up in a black limo about 20 minutes too late – it was midnight. How about a call to the coordinator or bride …douchbag
I actually had a limo get a flat tire in Pittsburgh during rush hour on the busiest road in town.
No spare! and ceremony time already passed the girls got out and flagged down and empty school bus who drove them to the church nearly an hour late.
NO JOKE!
After the ceremony the limo driver showed up and before the reception we had to stop and the groomsmen had to put air in the spare she was given because it was going flat and she didn’t know how.
My step-father-in-law had booked a locally owned limo for our wedding last summer. Keep in mind, the ceremony was what some people consider “out in the sticks,” so there weren’t all that many options. We waited at the church after portraits, etc. and he gets a call from the owner/driver saying that THE ROOF FELL OFF THE LIMO EN ROUTE TO THE CHURCH.
They don’t have spares for those. Luckily, there were still enough people with vehicles hanging around the church to stuff the wedding party in a multitude of vehicles.
Now I wonder if they ever bothered to fix that roof…
At my own wedding some 11 odd years ago (love ya baby) we apparently drove about 15 miles on a flat tire down the interstate. All the while people were honking and we thought, how cool they are congratulating us. Naw, they wanted to let us know we were shredding a tire.
I would have loved to have been along for the flagging down of the empty school bus. Those photos would be awesome! Make the best of every situation……
In defense of limo drivers (well, some anyway), I had one who was willing to stop at Chick-Fil-A (the bride’s favorite fast food place) and get her a coffee….. Very much into doing whatever the couple wanted.
THEY NEVER know where they are going…how is that possible? How do they survive in this business these days without a GPS?
Dear Limo Drivers,
Not all couples are interested in a photo of them doing a champagne toast next to your limo after the ceremony. You may want to ask the couple about it before setting up the red carpet and the champagne for a shot they may not be interested in taking. So don’t take it so personal if they have other shots they prefer to do in their limited time-frame.
We appreciate your diligence in setting up the brides dress before she walks down the isle, but can you please step back so that we can get a shot without you in it.
Found out one way to keep the groomsmen from hiding out during portraits and drinking in the limo – don’t clean out the previous night’s party puke and let it sit in the summer heat. Classy stuff.
Why is it, when you follow a limo, they ignore turn signals and race through every yellow and red light in sight. After visiting the first photo location, you tell them “Okay, I’ll lead, you FOLLOW.” and then they hang the handicapped parking tag on their rear view mirror, drive 15mph, and allow every vehicle on the road to get in between them and your car. I understand that the day is all about them and the invaluable services they provide, but do they have to rub it in EVERY time?
Dear Limo Driver,
I know that besides all that exhausting driving you do, a large part of your job is also waiting in the limo for the ceremony to be over. It’s wonderful of you to take time out of your busy schedule of waiting around to help out us photographers by dusting off your 30 year old camera that your dad gave you and come prancing around the church with that giant flash attachment, thinking your saving the day since I’m shooting without a flash and must be too dumb to realize the obvious mistake I’m making. And thank you for getting in front of me while I’m trying to shoot since you know you’ll get the shot better than I will anyway. And also, thank you for making quite a scene after I had the church lady kick your butt out of the ceremony. We’re all so bored at these weddings that it’s nice of you to entertain us, what would we do without you!
Dear Trolly Driver,
I know that driving a shoebox on wheels is probably challenging. I totally don’t mind that you smashed up my car as you were leaving and decided not to tell me. A large group of people who watched it all go down decided to come rushing in during the couple’s first dance and loudly announce it…. saving you the trouble. And no, it wasn’t distracting to me at all when they told me you totally crushed the front end of my vehicle while I was busy shooting an emotional couple attempting to have their romantic moment while all their guests ran outside to see what all the fuss was about.
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