The House in the Photographs
“Everybody in this industry sells the day.
I sell the arrangements.
I ask them harder questions than anybody has ever asked them.
I ask them who is paying for what and what happens if it rains and who is not speaking to whom and what the cancellation terms are on every single line, and I make them read them.
“And about one in six of them finds that unromantic and goes somewhere else, and the other five tell everybody they know.”
The judgment is on the wall behind her desk.