March 26, 2024 • 18 mins
Our friend Psycho Phil stops by to talk about the new doc he was featured in, Stay Still, all about the wedding industry!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Phil Cicilano is here Siciliana Citilano if you say it correctly, right,
is it Cicilano Ciciliano anyway?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
If you ever saw photos from our our wedding Alex
and my wedding from years ago, Phil, Yeah, the most
incredible photographer known to wedding Phil in the world. But
Phil used to be our intern on our morning show
years ago. We used to call him Psycho Phil. That
was me. I still do call him. Why did we
call him that? Because he was psycho. It's a little
(00:36):
wild back then. You still are anyway. So when it
comes to wedding photography, you've been to many weddings, You've
seen different techniques that these these women and men go
through to get the right shot at the right time,
and sometimes sometimes they get in the way of the wedding.
You just want to like smack him with the fly swater.
You and your crew did such an amazing job at
(00:58):
our wedding, and I'll never be able to think enough
beautiful work than you. But that's a whole different story
the world of wedding photography. So they approached Phil and said,
we want to do a documentary about what it's like
being a wedding photographer. Oh cool, So it's living on
the on the web right now. It's it's alive.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So this is the world premiere pretty much of it.
We just released it last week like a soft release,
and yeah, we're going to start pushing it now and
really showing people what it is to be behind the camera.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Would you take that jacket off? It's the loudest jacket
in the world. I'm sorry, I don't hear it. It's
a I can't hear Phil. His jacket is too loud.
I'm sorry. Remember that time Lady Gaga came in. She's
worrying it like stuff made out of shower curtain material
and you couldn't understand a word.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
She said.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was cranking here much better, all right. So the
things you guys go through because you have the emotions
of the bride and the bridal party, you have the
groom that shows up drunk.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I mean you have seen it all. Probably in in
your your field. We become the local planner, the psychiatrist
of the day. Where really the ones in charge. If
you think about it, breakdowns, do you say, like four
or five a day, Alex breakdown.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Alex broke down because Phil's like, okay, okay, pose this
way post that. Wait. I was just like, I'm done,
I don't want any more photos and we had to
dismiss the photo staff for a moment. Well, to be fair,
that was the end of the night. It was the
beginning of the night. Oh yeah, you're right, you're right.
I do a few of these. So anyway, So why
do you think it's important for the world to see
(02:38):
the wedding and everything from the perspective of the photographer.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, I think a lot of people only see it
for face value, because when you see a wedding, what
do you see after it's over? If you weren't there,
you just see the pictures. You don't see the work
that goes into it to make it the kind of
day that it is. Right, and there's hundreds of thousands
of professionals in the wedding industry where we show up
(03:04):
and nobody even knows we're there. So now it's kind
of cool to see this breakdown of like a third
wall where you see what we're doing now and you
see what we go through to get you to be
the best you can possibly be on the most important
day of your life.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There you go, yeah, you know, because I'm not going
to mention the name of the friend that we have
that had a wedding with They had photography people there.
It was the worst experience ever. Really, you were there.
I was, Yes, I had to kick them away from
the bride and groom so they could have a moment
to themselves. And they wanted them to like re enter
(03:42):
the room three or four times to get the perfect takes.
I'm like, leave them alone. You're bad at what you do.
And then they have a bad band.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And now I know as soon as you say bad band,
I know what wedding we're talking exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We have a very simple approach. I tell all my
couples and you do one thing that day, show up,
will take care of the rest. I need you to
be present, experience your day or like a fly on
the wall. We'll tell you what to do, but we're
not going to get in your way.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, look, you know there is no Froggy has a
question that I have a thought, Yes, Frog, what's that?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well, so many times a lot of people when they're
planning their wedding and they want to try to cut costs.
The last thing you want to do is cut costs
with a photographer, because these are pictures that will last
a lifetime and you want to make sure that you're
getting a pro And maybe by this documentary it shows
people how much work actually goes into being a photographer.
It's not just oh, I'll just take pictures, right.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, what I will say is pre COVID, pictures were
not number one on the list. And after COVID it
became a thing where I would tell all my future
potential clients, pictures are the most important thing you can
possibly get at your wedding because when all is said
(04:53):
and done.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We're all you have left besides each other. Right, And
sometimes that doesn't last. With COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I used to well, it was a thing where the whole,
the food, the band, everything was so important. But post pandemic,
we have this whole thing now where it doesn't matter
where you get married, it doesn't matter who's there, it
doesn't matter how big or grand it is. But your
(05:19):
pictures are your pictures because we're creating the most important
thing and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Is a memory. Hey look we got to do the
phone tap, but I'm gonna come back and talk about this.
You're not going anywhere. You brought an intimate's cake, so
I know you're gonna be here for a while. You
know it's good conversation, peep. It is because you need
some coffee. You put me to sleep.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
You really.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You need energy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That's all right, all right, let's bring back cycles. Get up, sister,
we'll bring back cycles.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He brought the end of it. It drinks some coffee
with that coffee cake. But you should see the text
are coming in. There's a huge response to this. People
said that they would not have survived their wedding without
the photographers. You would think the wedding planner would be
the choreographer here, but it turns out that Phil and
his photographer they kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Save the day and not everybody has a wedding planner. Really, no,
I didn't have a wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
My husband with his green phone.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He did a graduate. Anyway, we're hanging out with Phil
Cilia Cicilano Ciciliano. It's hard to say that we're a
list and I have one wedding photography. And this actually
the reason why we're loving you're here, Other than we
love you as a member of our family. Is this
documentary that was just completed and it's online? How can
(06:32):
someone watch it?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So right now it lives on my Instagram page if
you go to Philip Underscore Siciliano. The second videos right
there because now we could pin things on the top,
so it's easy for people to find it. Just the
picture of me with the camera. You can't miss it.
Right you click it and you can watch the whole
thing right there. Right now, we're in the process of
submitting it different places to see where it goes. But
(06:56):
it really is something interesting to watch because it shows
a from perspective other than I'm this wedding photographer and
I create these beautiful pictures.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Right It shows what goes into it. It shows the.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Life of me and what I do behind the scenes
to get people comfortable, to get people to where they
need to be. It shows the humble side of me
being a dad, a.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Husband, daughters. The cutest Her name is Daisy. How can
she not be king Daisy? May you can name you
can name the ugliest person in the world, Daisy, and
they're gorgeous of me. I'm looking at it. She is gorgeous.
She loves all of you anyway, I gotta tell you.
When you and your team were at our wedding, it
(07:44):
was it was like, whoa, it's so weird to know
you from when you're a kid and now you're like
a pro. But people are interested in this, and I
love documentaries, like a little slice of someone's life you
know nothing about, and I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So is there a name for it? So it's called
Stay Still. What happened was about a year ago. A
friend of mine in the industry, amazing cinematographer. His name
is Chris Antice. He approached me with this idea to
start this documentary series about photographers and what we do
because we're constantly capturing all of these couples and people
(08:22):
and nobody knows who we are. So we had this idea.
He approached a few people. They're like, yeah, yeah, let's
do it. He's like, Phil, what do you think. I
was like, let's start tomorrow. He's like, oh, great, when
do you want to start. You already have cameras, you're
ready to go. So we chose the most interesting day
to start. We started the day after I called it
the world is on fire. Remember when we had that
(08:42):
smog that came through the city and everything was orange.
So I was like, yeah, let's start tomorrow. The air
quality is great, let's go. And we went to the
Staten Island Ferry and we started how fun wow, and
it was great.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I love it. All right, stand still, stay still, stay still,
because think about it, you're a photographer. Still it. Yeah,
all right, I want to get into this moment. In
a moment, text me now fifty five one hundred. I
want to hear, like the craziest wedding photographer story you have,
I'll give you mine. You want people to know what
(09:13):
you're all about. But at the wedding, you're You're one
way of looking at it is you're supposedly somewhat invisible
in a way.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right, We're invisible and there at the same time. We
don't leave your side, but we're not there.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's all kind of creepy, but it works out. But
if you ever saw our photos, you did a great
job on that. It was awesome. We didn't stay still
a lot, but anyway, so we're hanging out with Phil Ciciolano,
who was the wedding He and his team photographed our
wedding Alex. When Alex and I got married. But we're
getting a lot of calls, Phil, people talking about you
(09:48):
and how they worked with you. That's awesome. A lot
of people saying that you really kept it together and
you were like, here's the thing. We can't talk like
this here. But when he was shooting us, it was
the most dirty, disgusting, vile conversation. We got to make
you feel cool, and we had fun. It was fun anyway. Anyway,
(10:08):
are you just texting each other? Okay? Danielle, remember way
back when you got married, were you happy with your photographers?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was, But I think that if I went back now,
i'd vote use Phil because he I feel like you
capture more moments that people don't know about.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What are they called lands? Yeah, candids. You're much better
with the candids, I think, But I did. I mean,
we got great pictures fromorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You do remember some of those. I look really good
in those pictures.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You do look really good.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Kidding, I want to see those.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
I was asking Phil all about the dark underbelly of
the photography world, because, as you know, photographers or even
wedding planners, you have to see couples that at the
wedding you think something yeah, yeah, we know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We know, and just the way we know, I think
everybody else at that wedding knows too. Oh really wow,
And the way you describe it was kind of great.
You meet the couple, they're about to get married, and
you can see there each in their own lane and
they never merge lanes ever. They each have their own
goals in life, but they're not in common with the
other persons.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So to me, when I'm photographing a couple, there should
be a unit. They're becoming a team, right right, Yeah,
And if you don't see that on the wedding day,
how is that going to coexist? There's no team effort
from start, from day one, so it's like one person's
taking a backseat to the other person before the journey
(11:33):
even gets started.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yes, and another way of looking at it, there are
couples that are great together, but by the time wedding
times there, they don't want to be with each other anymore.
But they the pressure is already on, the invites are out,
people are coming. They don't want to disappoint people, and
they get married anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I know somebody who was asked right before you know,
you don't have to do this and they said it's
too late.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Never too late? Yeah, Phil, Can I get my deposit
back because I decided not to go through with the wedding? Sure? Okay,
you take store credit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What happens if somebody does cancel last minute? Like, what's
your policy with that?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
One of my second shooters who was actually at your wedding,
his named Steve. He's actually a lawyer. Ohh, so I
had him write my contract to be ironclad.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okayo yeah, yeah, no, we had. You had like seventeen
cameramen there, camera people, camera people. Hello, Rose, how are
you doing?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How are you doing well? So your photographer was a
New York City crime photographer friend of your dad's, and
so your maid of honor asked him if he wanted
he wanted you to lay down on the floor, like
like in a crime scene.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
What he asked him? When you know, he had walked
up and my dad, he's planning the wedding, had said,
I know a guy. He was one of those come
guys you know everybody. When the gentleman started walking up
the walkway, I noticed who it was and I looked
at my dad said, are you kidding me? He's like, listen,
he's got people convicted on his photos, so he's really good. So,
you know, my mother's in the background saying the Holy Trinity.
(13:06):
But he comes in and my maide of you know,
we introduced everybody to the photographer, and my maid of
honor said, do you want us to lay down on
the floor? Do you want us to put some white
tape down? You know, joking? Right scene exactly? You know
what you feel more. He's like, no, no, you could
stay upright.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
He did take beautiful pictures. I do have.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, good, I think I just had an idea for
my next wedding. If you were like a death scene,
a crime scene. Rose, how's that? How's that marriage going?
You're still married? You're all good?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Thirty two years later, been together forty one?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right, Rose, thank you for listening to us. Thank you
very much. Oh God. So when the wedding's happening, Phil,
and there's a there's a point where there's no turning back.
The show is on the road, and the the trajectory
is there. You got to keep going. Listen to this story. Hey, Mauricio,
(14:04):
good morning. Okay, so real quick, the something happened there
was an accident with the bride's limo on the way
to the wedding.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Well, it had already started. Uh, we were doing pictures
at the venue and she wanted to go to the beach,
which we suggested not to. Unfortunately, on the way back,
the limo got into an accident with a motorcyclist.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh yeah, okay, so what happened.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Motorcycle struck the bride side of the limo. Unfortunately he
did not make it, but she still went through with
the wedding, unfortunately with the victim's blood on her dress.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh god, damn, that is so Jackie. I don't like that, man,
I know, but yeah, yeah, but those someone lost their life.
I don't know if. I don't know if I could
go through with a wedding knowing that we just we
just took a life with our alemo. I don't know.
But the photographer caught that caught the whole thing. I'm sure, yeah,
(15:13):
he was, Oh my god, all right, wow, thank you, Mauricio.
I think you're a nice guy. But this is the
most morbid call we've had a long time. I'm depressed. Yeah, well,
just one of the crazy Are they still are they
still married? They are okay, good guys. So it wasn't
like okay, James, all right, thank you, Maricio. Okay, any
(15:35):
more fun conversations we can hear because you know, we
had our dog Max in our wedding and luckily he
was a good boy. Have you ever had dogs in
the wedding? And actually pooh right there on the h
I got a good story. You need you need ile
poo in the photography, it wasn't ile pooh, but this
was getting ready pooh. So I had a couple. They
had two big German shepherds, a lot of poo, and
(15:57):
we were in an open, I guess, like a fattory
type space where she was getting ready. It's big old
Persian rug and she's just about to put on her
wedding dress. And the dog was nervous and you start
seeing that like potty squat walk around the rug. The
bride was doing potty the dog and just pure diary.
(16:22):
See why did the dog save that for the wedding?
Because that's what that would have been?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Great?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Hold on, hold on, Brian, are you there?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Okay, So what happened?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh well, you got one of those nice photos where
we are holding each other looking at each other in
a nice loving embrace, and then far off into the background,
not too far off is our beautiful little Boston terror
dropping a.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Deuce a Right there you go. You see that's probably
the best, the best photo of the entire event. I
hope you framed it. Oh yeah, we framed it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Nice you pray, you pray for those moment was still happening.
I love that, and Brian even got a vow there
you got.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, once I put a bride in the middle of
a bunch of pigeons because I thought I had, like
this wild idea to have the pigeons fly by.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Or how did that go? It's pooped all over the groom? Nice? Nice, nice?
All right, well listen, Brian, thank you. You're still married.
Everything's good?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh yeah, all right. We actually met you in Mexico.
Oh you did about twenty seventeen. Yeah, we met in Uniko.
Oh my god, Melanie is my wife. We were married
at the time, but we got married a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Look at that. Congratulations with dog poop and the photos.
You got a life going man. All right, Brian, thank
you so much. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
To us.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So, Philip, people want to follow you on Instagram. A
lot of people were't texting and saying they've heard you
on our show before and they follow you just to
follow you because you have great photography on there were
very thank you is it Philip?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Underscore underscore Ciciliano P H I L I P underscore
s I C I L I A N O cool.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well, thank you for giving it. I want to see
this documentary called Stay Still, Yes, and can you search
for it or find it on your Instagra right now?
It's just on the Instagram. It's common underscore Ciciliano. I
can't say it, Sicily Ciciliano. Oh my god, the girl
can learn, all right. Thank you, phil
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Phil Cicilano is here Siciliana Citilano if you say it correctly, right,
is it Cicilano Ciciliano anyway?
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (00:14):
If you ever saw photos from our our wedding Alex
and my wedding from years ago, Phil, Yeah, the most
incredible photographer known to wedding Phil in the world. But
Phil used to be our intern on our morning show
years ago. We used to call him Psycho Phil. That
was me. I still do call him. Why did we
call him that? Because he was psycho. It's a little
(00:36):
wild back then. You still are anyway. So when it
comes to wedding photography, you've been to many weddings, You've
seen different techniques that these these women and men go
through to get the right shot at the right time,
and sometimes sometimes they get in the way of the wedding.
You just want to like smack him with the fly swater.
You and your crew did such an amazing job at
(00:58):
our wedding, and I'll never be able to think enough
beautiful work than you. But that's a whole different story
the world of wedding photography. So they approached Phil and said,
we want to do a documentary about what it's like
being a wedding photographer. Oh cool, So it's living on
the on the web right now. It's it's alive.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So this is the world premiere pretty much of it.
We just released it last week like a soft release,
and yeah, we're going to start pushing it now and
really showing people what it is to be behind the camera.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Would you take that jacket off? It's the loudest jacket
in the world. I'm sorry, I don't hear it. It's
a I can't hear Phil. His jacket is too loud.
I'm sorry. Remember that time Lady Gaga came in. She's
worrying it like stuff made out of shower curtain material
and you couldn't understand a word.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
She said.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
It was cranking here much better, all right. So the
things you guys go through because you have the emotions
of the bride and the bridal party, you have the
groom that shows up drunk.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I mean you have seen it all. Probably in in
your your field. We become the local planner, the psychiatrist
of the day. Where really the ones in charge. If
you think about it, breakdowns, do you say, like four
or five a day, Alex breakdown.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Alex broke down because Phil's like, okay, okay, pose this
way post that. Wait. I was just like, I'm done,
I don't want any more photos and we had to
dismiss the photo staff for a moment. Well, to be fair,
that was the end of the night. It was the
beginning of the night. Oh yeah, you're right, you're right.
I do a few of these. So anyway, So why
do you think it's important for the world to see
(02:38):
the wedding and everything from the perspective of the photographer.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Well, I think a lot of people only see it
for face value, because when you see a wedding, what
do you see after it's over? If you weren't there,
you just see the pictures. You don't see the work
that goes into it to make it the kind of
day that it is. Right, and there's hundreds of thousands
of professionals in the wedding industry where we show up
(03:04):
and nobody even knows we're there. So now it's kind
of cool to see this breakdown of like a third
wall where you see what we're doing now and you
see what we go through to get you to be
the best you can possibly be on the most important
day of your life.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
There you go, yeah, you know, because I'm not going
to mention the name of the friend that we have
that had a wedding with They had photography people there.
It was the worst experience ever. Really, you were there.
I was, Yes, I had to kick them away from
the bride and groom so they could have a moment
to themselves. And they wanted them to like re enter
(03:42):
the room three or four times to get the perfect takes.
I'm like, leave them alone. You're bad at what you do.
And then they have a bad band.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
And now I know as soon as you say bad band,
I know what wedding we're talking exactly.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
We have a very simple approach. I tell all my
couples and you do one thing that day, show up,
will take care of the rest. I need you to
be present, experience your day or like a fly on
the wall. We'll tell you what to do, but we're
not going to get in your way.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Well, look, you know there is no Froggy has a
question that I have a thought, Yes, Frog, what's that?
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Well, so many times a lot of people when they're
planning their wedding and they want to try to cut costs.
The last thing you want to do is cut costs
with a photographer, because these are pictures that will last
a lifetime and you want to make sure that you're
getting a pro And maybe by this documentary it shows
people how much work actually goes into being a photographer.
It's not just oh, I'll just take pictures, right.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Well, what I will say is pre COVID, pictures were
not number one on the list. And after COVID it
became a thing where I would tell all my future
potential clients, pictures are the most important thing you can
possibly get at your wedding because when all is said
(04:53):
and done.
Speaker 2 (04:54):
We're all you have left besides each other. Right, And
sometimes that doesn't last. With COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
I used to well, it was a thing where the whole,
the food, the band, everything was so important. But post pandemic,
we have this whole thing now where it doesn't matter
where you get married, it doesn't matter who's there, it
doesn't matter how big or grand it is. But your
(05:19):
pictures are your pictures because we're creating the most important
thing and.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Is a memory. Hey look we got to do the
phone tap, but I'm gonna come back and talk about this.
You're not going anywhere. You brought an intimate's cake, so
I know you're gonna be here for a while. You
know it's good conversation, peep. It is because you need
some coffee. You put me to sleep.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
You really.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
You need energy.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
That's all right, all right, let's bring back cycles. Get up, sister,
we'll bring back cycles.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
He brought the end of it. It drinks some coffee
with that coffee cake. But you should see the text
are coming in. There's a huge response to this. People
said that they would not have survived their wedding without
the photographers. You would think the wedding planner would be
the choreographer here, but it turns out that Phil and
his photographer they kind of.
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Save the day and not everybody has a wedding planner. Really, no,
I didn't have a wedding.
Speaker 4 (06:06):
I'm kidding.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
I did.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
My husband with his green phone.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
He did a graduate. Anyway, we're hanging out with Phil
Cilia Cicilano Ciciliano. It's hard to say that we're a
list and I have one wedding photography. And this actually
the reason why we're loving you're here, Other than we
love you as a member of our family. Is this
documentary that was just completed and it's online? How can
(06:32):
someone watch it?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
So right now it lives on my Instagram page if
you go to Philip Underscore Siciliano. The second videos right
there because now we could pin things on the top,
so it's easy for people to find it. Just the
picture of me with the camera. You can't miss it.
Right you click it and you can watch the whole
thing right there. Right now, we're in the process of
submitting it different places to see where it goes. But
(06:56):
it really is something interesting to watch because it shows
a from perspective other than I'm this wedding photographer and
I create these beautiful pictures.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Right It shows what goes into it. It shows the.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Life of me and what I do behind the scenes
to get people comfortable, to get people to where they
need to be. It shows the humble side of me
being a dad, a.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Husband, daughters. The cutest Her name is Daisy. How can
she not be king Daisy? May you can name you
can name the ugliest person in the world, Daisy, and
they're gorgeous of me. I'm looking at it. She is gorgeous.
She loves all of you anyway, I gotta tell you.
When you and your team were at our wedding, it
(07:44):
was it was like, whoa, it's so weird to know
you from when you're a kid and now you're like
a pro. But people are interested in this, and I
love documentaries, like a little slice of someone's life you
know nothing about, and I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
So is there a name for it? So it's called
Stay Still. What happened was about a year ago. A
friend of mine in the industry, amazing cinematographer. His name
is Chris Antice. He approached me with this idea to
start this documentary series about photographers and what we do
because we're constantly capturing all of these couples and people
(08:22):
and nobody knows who we are. So we had this idea.
He approached a few people. They're like, yeah, yeah, let's
do it. He's like, Phil, what do you think. I
was like, let's start tomorrow. He's like, oh, great, when
do you want to start. You already have cameras, you're
ready to go. So we chose the most interesting day
to start. We started the day after I called it
the world is on fire. Remember when we had that
(08:42):
smog that came through the city and everything was orange.
So I was like, yeah, let's start tomorrow. The air
quality is great, let's go. And we went to the
Staten Island Ferry and we started how fun wow, and
it was great.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
I love it. All right, stand still, stay still, stay still,
because think about it, you're a photographer. Still it. Yeah,
all right, I want to get into this moment. In
a moment, text me now fifty five one hundred. I
want to hear, like the craziest wedding photographer story you have,
I'll give you mine. You want people to know what
(09:13):
you're all about. But at the wedding, you're You're one
way of looking at it is you're supposedly somewhat invisible
in a way.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Right, We're invisible and there at the same time. We
don't leave your side, but we're not there.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
It's all kind of creepy, but it works out. But
if you ever saw our photos, you did a great
job on that. It was awesome. We didn't stay still
a lot, but anyway, so we're hanging out with Phil Ciciolano,
who was the wedding He and his team photographed our
wedding Alex. When Alex and I got married. But we're
getting a lot of calls, Phil, people talking about you
(09:48):
and how they worked with you. That's awesome. A lot
of people saying that you really kept it together and
you were like, here's the thing. We can't talk like
this here. But when he was shooting us, it was
the most dirty, disgusting, vile conversation. We got to make
you feel cool, and we had fun. It was fun anyway. Anyway,
(10:08):
are you just texting each other? Okay? Danielle, remember way
back when you got married, were you happy with your photographers?
Speaker 1 (10:17):
I was, But I think that if I went back now,
i'd vote use Phil because he I feel like you
capture more moments that people don't know about.
Speaker 7 (10:26):
What are they?
Speaker 1 (10:27):
What are they called lands? Yeah, candids. You're much better
with the candids, I think, But I did. I mean,
we got great pictures fromorrow.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
You do remember some of those. I look really good
in those pictures.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
You do look really good.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Kidding, I want to see those.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
I was asking Phil all about the dark underbelly of
the photography world, because, as you know, photographers or even
wedding planners, you have to see couples that at the
wedding you think something yeah, yeah, we know.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
We know, and just the way we know, I think
everybody else at that wedding knows too. Oh really wow,
And the way you describe it was kind of great.
You meet the couple, they're about to get married, and
you can see there each in their own lane and
they never merge lanes ever. They each have their own
goals in life, but they're not in common with the
other persons.
Speaker 3 (11:13):
So to me, when I'm photographing a couple, there should
be a unit. They're becoming a team, right right, Yeah,
And if you don't see that on the wedding day,
how is that going to coexist? There's no team effort
from start, from day one, so it's like one person's
taking a backseat to the other person before the journey
(11:33):
even gets started.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yes, and another way of looking at it, there are
couples that are great together, but by the time wedding
times there, they don't want to be with each other anymore.
But they the pressure is already on, the invites are out,
people are coming. They don't want to disappoint people, and
they get married anywhere.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
I know somebody who was asked right before you know,
you don't have to do this and they said it's
too late.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
Never too late? Yeah, Phil, Can I get my deposit
back because I decided not to go through with the wedding? Sure? Okay,
you take store credit.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
What happens if somebody does cancel last minute? Like, what's
your policy with that?
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Well?
Speaker 3 (12:08):
One of my second shooters who was actually at your wedding,
his named Steve. He's actually a lawyer. Ohh, so I
had him write my contract to be ironclad.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Okayo yeah, yeah, no, we had. You had like seventeen
cameramen there, camera people, camera people. Hello, Rose, how are
you doing?
Speaker 7 (12:29):
I'm doing well?
Speaker 2 (12:29):
How are you doing well? So your photographer was a
New York City crime photographer friend of your dad's, and
so your maid of honor asked him if he wanted
he wanted you to lay down on the floor, like
like in a crime scene.
Speaker 7 (12:44):
What he asked him? When you know, he had walked
up and my dad, he's planning the wedding, had said,
I know a guy. He was one of those come
guys you know everybody. When the gentleman started walking up
the walkway, I noticed who it was and I looked
at my dad said, are you kidding me? He's like, listen,
he's got people convicted on his photos, so he's really good. So,
you know, my mother's in the background saying the Holy Trinity.
(13:06):
But he comes in and my maide of you know,
we introduced everybody to the photographer, and my maid of
honor said, do you want us to lay down on
the floor? Do you want us to put some white
tape down? You know, joking? Right scene exactly? You know
what you feel more. He's like, no, no, you could
stay upright.
Speaker 6 (13:22):
He did take beautiful pictures. I do have.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
Okay, good, I think I just had an idea for
my next wedding. If you were like a death scene,
a crime scene. Rose, how's that? How's that marriage going?
You're still married? You're all good?
Speaker 7 (13:36):
Thirty two years later, been together forty one?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Oh yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Right, Rose, thank you for listening to us. Thank you
very much. Oh God. So when the wedding's happening, Phil,
and there's a there's a point where there's no turning back.
The show is on the road, and the the trajectory
is there. You got to keep going. Listen to this story. Hey, Mauricio,
(14:04):
good morning. Okay, so real quick, the something happened there
was an accident with the bride's limo on the way
to the wedding.
Speaker 6 (14:13):
Well, it had already started. Uh, we were doing pictures
at the venue and she wanted to go to the beach,
which we suggested not to. Unfortunately, on the way back,
the limo got into an accident with a motorcyclist.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Oh yeah, okay, so what happened.
Speaker 6 (14:38):
Motorcycle struck the bride side of the limo. Unfortunately he
did not make it, but she still went through with
the wedding, unfortunately with the victim's blood on her dress.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
Oh god, damn, that is so Jackie. I don't like that, man,
I know, but yeah, yeah, but those someone lost their life.
I don't know if. I don't know if I could
go through with a wedding knowing that we just we
just took a life with our alemo. I don't know.
But the photographer caught that caught the whole thing. I'm sure, yeah,
(15:13):
he was, Oh my god, all right, wow, thank you, Mauricio.
I think you're a nice guy. But this is the
most morbid call we've had a long time. I'm depressed. Yeah, well,
just one of the crazy Are they still are they
still married? They are okay, good guys. So it wasn't
like okay, James, all right, thank you, Maricio. Okay, any
(15:35):
more fun conversations we can hear because you know, we
had our dog Max in our wedding and luckily he
was a good boy. Have you ever had dogs in
the wedding? And actually pooh right there on the h
I got a good story. You need you need ile
poo in the photography, it wasn't ile pooh, but this
was getting ready pooh. So I had a couple. They
had two big German shepherds, a lot of poo, and
(15:57):
we were in an open, I guess, like a fattory
type space where she was getting ready. It's big old
Persian rug and she's just about to put on her
wedding dress. And the dog was nervous and you start
seeing that like potty squat walk around the rug. The
bride was doing potty the dog and just pure diary.
(16:22):
See why did the dog save that for the wedding?
Because that's what that would have been?
Speaker 7 (16:26):
Great?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Hold on, hold on, Brian, are you there?
Speaker 7 (16:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Okay, So what happened?
Speaker 4 (16:33):
Oh well, you got one of those nice photos where
we are holding each other looking at each other in
a nice loving embrace, and then far off into the background,
not too far off is our beautiful little Boston terror
dropping a.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Deuce a Right there you go. You see that's probably
the best, the best photo of the entire event. I
hope you framed it. Oh yeah, we framed it.
Speaker 4 (16:56):
It's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Nice you pray, you pray for those moment was still happening.
I love that, and Brian even got a vow there
you got.
Speaker 6 (17:05):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Well, once I put a bride in the middle of
a bunch of pigeons because I thought I had, like
this wild idea to have the pigeons fly by.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Or how did that go? It's pooped all over the groom? Nice? Nice, nice?
All right, well listen, Brian, thank you. You're still married.
Everything's good?
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Oh yeah, all right. We actually met you in Mexico.
Oh you did about twenty seventeen. Yeah, we met in Uniko.
Oh my god, Melanie is my wife. We were married
at the time, but we got married a couple of
years ago.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Look at that. Congratulations with dog poop and the photos.
You got a life going man. All right, Brian, thank
you so much. Thanks for listening.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
To us.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
So, Philip, people want to follow you on Instagram. A
lot of people were't texting and saying they've heard you
on our show before and they follow you just to
follow you because you have great photography on there were
very thank you is it Philip?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Underscore underscore Ciciliano P H I L I P underscore
s I C I L I A N O cool.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Nice?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
Well, thank you for giving it. I want to see
this documentary called Stay Still, Yes, and can you search
for it or find it on your Instagra right now?
It's just on the Instagram. It's common underscore Ciciliano. I
can't say it, Sicily Ciciliano. Oh my god, the girl
can learn, all right. Thank you, phil
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