December 7, 2022 • 20 mins
We chat with our friend and photographer to the stars Philip Siciliano to talk about our photo shoot coming up next week!
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Firm Elvis Presents fifteen minute Morning Show. Here we go
into the fifteen minute morning show podcast. It may or
may not be fifteen minutes. Who cares? This is what
we call it. Uh. In the house today, there's Froggy
(00:23):
and there's Gandhi. I see Scotty. What are you doing? Scotty?
There was a chunk of banana on this receipt. I
had to fling it off. Okay, the banana flinger is
in the house. And there's Danielle, and there's straight Nate
and we have a very special guest today there with
Garrett is Psycho Phil legally Phil Siciliano is how you
(00:46):
say it Siliano clo as in sicily. Anyway, Phil has
a reason for being here, and you're going to be
so excited to find out why. Uh do we need
to cover anything about the big show, the Wednesday show
before we can move forward? It's a great show, great show.
We hammered out another home run. Everybody boom that we
(01:08):
guessed the secret news anchor Butt Holer. We all guess
who it was? Can we say who it was? Or not? Well,
when you say butth Holer he explain what that means.
So somebody who's a hunky ABC former ABC news anchor
is supposedly a nudist, So we're all guessing who it
wasn't We did not guess it on the air, but
we guess it off the air. And the nudist to
(01:29):
me is a butt holer because you're just walking around
sitting on everything. We bot hold out. So I don't
think we could say the the story because the reason
why Rob can't say it is because he can get sued.
We can say, permit, we just guessed it. Yeah, it
to Andrew Cuomo. Yeah, there you go. It's he sits
running but holes his furniture. Who cares? Why are we
(01:51):
making such a big deal out of it for a
governor who family? Can you imagine going up to Syracuse
and going to the governor's mansion. You see a little
brown dots on all the furniture and you want to
be naked in your house. That's all good, but there
(02:13):
it's all But he not Syracuse. We should move the state.
He doesn't. Doesn't the former governor also have nipple rings?
Wasn't that the big one? So Phil is here, Phil
uh to tell the story. Again. Phil used to work
on our show years and years ago, and then he
left our show and became this superstar in the photography world.
(02:37):
As a matter of fact, he shot some of those
beautiful some of those beautiful, beautiful shots at people's weddings,
and uh he got what a job he did at
our wedding several years ago. We saw him the other
night close to the microphone. What's that I've made my
go around at this table. Yeah, many different ways. Tell
us didn't. Wasn't even a doubt, like we're getting filled
(03:03):
because he's oh wait, wait, you didn't for what the wedding.
We weren't invited to that one. The only way we'll
ever see that wedding is through Phil's photography. So basically
Phil has done most of this table. So of course
he was at Sam's wedding the other night. So next
week we have to all get together. Froggy's flying in
for a very special morning show uh photo shoot and
(03:25):
fills in charge. So we're here for you to tell us,
give us some tips on how we can maximize our
time together and look great for these photos. What do
we wear so clothing wise optional? No, I would say
dress like you unless there's some kind of specific outfit
that they want you in. Be as you as possible,
(03:47):
because when you take a picture, you want to see you.
You don't want to see made up version of who
you're supposed to be. Right, we want you to be you.
So sky's the limit I guess as to what you
can wear. Um, well, I tell you this. The people
who think they are our bosses who aren't, are suggesting
(04:08):
certain outfits, right Andrew, and Andrew, he's busy with the movers,
He's right there, he's here. Andrew has been in contact
with one person in particular that it's just the worst. Hey, Andrew,
can you hear me? Yep. So we're talking about with
Phil about our our photo session next week and what
wardrobe should be. So the people at Premier are saying
(04:32):
they want us to dress a certain way, and we're saying,
fuck you, We'll do what we want. What are they
suggesting we wear? So the casual outfit? Maybe if we
all want to pick a color that we kind of
all match in this way. We don't have some green,
some red, some blues, some pinks, some oranges. What's wrong
with that? I like a lot of different colors and
I mean it makes more fun. Yeah, I think that
(04:54):
would look good. I think do colors great? Don't go
to match you, match you. We don't want this to
look like a Chris This card, definitely, although we do
also have to take a Christmas card, so be aware.
Um so uh yeah, just not too many colors like
casuale and then give us a color number. That to
an Indian person, that's all we do is too many cards.
I will give you a pantoe number prior so you
(05:16):
can match the pantone. Here's one thing I will tell you,
whatever you do wear, don't let it conflict with your
skin tone. Conflict perfect example, see how you're wearing a
bright orange shirt right now, Yes, don't do that. The
brightness of the color on you will bounce onto your
(05:38):
skin complexion and you kind of blend. So who could
wear this shirt? Well right now to work? But ill
that thought for people watching this podcast. They don't see
scary where's this camera Diana's cameras, so they're watching, they're
watching bright orange shirt. Thank you, no shirt. I'm just
saying for Oh, I mean, listen, I'm wearing a Clark
(06:01):
Griswold Christmas T shirt right now I wouldn't wear that
for a photo session, but try and stay away from
colors where if you took a picture of yourself, like, wow,
that looks really bright. Stay neutral. Neutral tones always work
the best, but not flesh tone because sometimes people look
naked and weird places like Josh Groban yesterday on whatever
show he was, Yeah, it looked like he was naked
under his jacket. What about Gandhi though she's dark, complexed
(06:24):
and and and diamond, what should they wear? I would
wear colors that neutralize you like, So what colors would
you normally wear on a daily basis? I wear a
lot of black. I also like royal blue, like a
sapphire blue color. I like green those. Okay, so you
wouldn't wear something though that like Alvis just said, like, uh,
(06:48):
brain fart, sorry COVID brain neutral um, flush time, yes,
flushtimes for a photo exactly? No way. Do you see
how he's wearing orange kind of matches his fleshing? Okay,
all right, all right, all right? Can I can? Can
I do like a different color camussels underneath, like a
(07:09):
cute leather jacket type of thing. Those types of works
like leather. I'm doing leather we'll do leather together, leather too,
This is great, there's okay, it's okay, cal hide fabulous.
What else? Andrew? The people from who they think are above,
what do they say they want us to wear? Um,
So a casual outfit, something that shows off your personality,
(07:29):
kind of like what Phil was saying. I think we've
all agreed. Nothing that's gonna be flesh tone or neutralize you.
But then they also want like a classier photo, more formal.
And that's where I stepped in and I said, we
can't make it look like we're doing like a like
a cabaret type of dealing to a formal Yeah, no,
none of that. So again formal but our version of formal,
(07:52):
Which why do we pull off? Well, why don't we
just choose one outfit? That's it? Just bring an outfit.
Don't I love that? Ye don't bring a change of outfit. Really,
people in the back, we're just bringing one outfit. Well,
let's bring one outfit. Okay. Well, they only wanted you,
Danielle and Gandhi to do the formal ones. So I
guess maybe they thought you were doing a cabaret change
(08:15):
but maybe not like a formal outfit not a ball down.
I don't think I have a ball. I think I'm
just going to bring a couple of different colored jackets. Yeah,
you want bring different jackets to put over what you're wearing.
Perfect will change everything? Great idea, I'm in. I got
a questions. Great, is a white camisol okay? Or is
white not good? What's a camisole like a tank top?
(08:38):
I fancy? Or one? Um? What about wearing white? Bill?
How does that work? Wearing all white? I looked a
little pale in my wedding picture. I noticed about that
white shirt. I looked a little gone or one tone.
I'm not even joking for me. It is for me.
It is for me. It is I take my shirt off,
I'm like black alabaster. It's a kay, but just a
(09:01):
little hint of color. Yeah, but I would have color
on top of the white. That's fine, that's fine. I
can't do black because then my hair blends. Right. Somebody
who photographs people in white every single weekend, it obviously works. Yeah,
so yeah, it's okay, it's fine. Can you make me
tan when you do the touch ups? You wear his
T shirt? Can you can you do stuff to remove
(09:23):
some excess fat? On my face. We have angles angles,
the angles, because there are plenty of times where like
I'll take a picture and I think, oh, that's a
great picture, and then someone else will take a picture
and I have seventeen chins. Yeah, me too. You just
thought heads up on that. For anyone who's ever worked
with me before, I'm notorious for saying, yeah, I hate
the way that looks. I'm going to tell you I
(09:44):
appreciate that. I will literally look at you and be like, wow,
that looks like we have to Can you make my
forehead not a five six eight head instead, It'll be
a forehead. A lot of miracles here all of us. Hey,
can we talk about what it was like. We were
all in Santa Fe for our wedding and Alex and
(10:05):
I were taking all these photos dozens of millions of
trillions of photos with Phil and at one point Alex
just stood up and said no, mar and he got
mad and stormed out. That was my favorite moment. That
was at the end of the wedding. We were like,
no if that was the night of the rehearsal dinner.
My my favorite part was on your wedding day when
we were walking through the streets, and you looked at
(10:25):
me and went, all right, phil you have ten minutes. Go.
The whole vision of doing all these amazing photos throughout
the streets, I mean, I went on a a search
mission to get all these different spots, and then we
get there and you're like, yeah, you got ten minutes,
so go. We were at the end of our rope.
(10:47):
But I will say it turned out amazing because what
we got was phenomenal. And yeah, you the two you
had an amazing day and the pictures show it. But
you don't feel your photography always always it turns out
extraordinarily perfect. I mean, if you what is your what's
your Instagram? Philip underscore Siciliano. I know everyone tells me
to change it, but if I change it, no one
(11:09):
will know where I am anymore. You can you can
follow find him from our follows too. Yeah, I mean
check all of these incredible photos. This this beautiful artwork
he creates his and his little girl is the cutest
thing in the Oh, she's adorable. We had Jack's on
the air today. She talked, we talked about Daisy May. Yeah,
(11:29):
but anyway, I want you to check out his photography
because it really if you can't get filled to your
wedding or your event. You can at least say, hey, photographer, person,
look at what this guy does and let them be
inspired by what you've been told. My page is a
good inspiration board. There's actually several photographers who come around
and they don't like it so much. I take it
as flattery, but the brides will go to them with
(11:51):
a packet of photos and say, hey, can you make
it look like this? And it's a bunch of my photos.
So let me just come to you and ask you
to do with them. Know there's that they could be
an Alaska or Paris. But how did you get into this?
I mean, this is a great story. Phil was with
us doing radio and then all of a sudden we
all sort of win our separate ways. Then the next
(12:13):
thing you know, he's a superstar photographer. How did you
pick up a camera and get this started? So I
always kind of liked photography, it wasn't something that was
a passion of mine forever. Um My wife bought me
a camera for my birthday because right after we got married,
I said, you know, I want a good camera. I
want to start taking pictures. And she said, you know,
(12:33):
you're good at this, why don't you start a small business?
So all right, you know I was a teacher at
the time. I said, I will teach during the week,
take pictures on the weekend. One thing led to another.
My first year a book six weddings, second year of
book twelve, third year of book sixty weddings. It was
kind of a that's where you're supposed to be in life,
(12:57):
this is what you're supposed to do. The job found
on me. I didn't go look for it. And then
that when you do something that doesn't feel like work,
it shines through. Have you become judging about weddings now,
like you're going this food is ship. Well, I will
tell you this, being a wedding photographer and being at
a wedding every single weekend, it's very dangerous on the
(13:21):
stomach because if you talk to anybody, they'll all tell
you the same thing. The best food is at the
cocktail hour. And think about how you just engorge yourself
at a cocktail hour. Now try doing that to three
times a weekend. You know, you could choose not to
get in line at the cocktail it's just so tempting. Yeah,
(13:43):
what's the worst wedding you've ever been at. Oh god,
just like you know name, give us something about it.
Nate's in the room, Nate's wedding. I will say this
food wise was amazing because we actually went for pizza,
my favorite pizzeria and that's right. Yeah. We did a
photo shoot, which is actually, this is something that you
(14:05):
should recommend to people. Just do a day where you
do pictures with your significant other, where you with your wife,
your wife or your your husband, because it takes all
the stress off. Oh my god, we had such a
fun day driving around different parts of Manhattan in New
York City and just he's like, oh, get out of
the car, let's take a picture here. We don't even
know what to hang up in our house because we
(14:25):
have four dozen photos that are like, well, what about
this one? What about this one? What about that one?
He's just he doesn't take pictures. What do I say, Phil,
He makes pictures. You create art, you capture moments. I'll
back to the worst wedding. Well I shouldn't say worst wedding,
(14:47):
I mean challenging. In the ten years that I'm doing
this ten years now, there's three brides that if someone said, yeah,
they got hit by a bus, I'd probably say, Okay,
out of almost, you know, eight hundred weddings, i'd say
(15:08):
that's pretty good. But there was one wedding and it
was out a venue in Brooklyn, and caterers are usually
the biggest assholes there are, and I will never forget this.
We walked in, we had just worked about seven hours,
it was time to eat, and they said, listen, you
cannot go near any of the food. What are you
(15:29):
talking about. I purposely have in my contract I am
allowed to eat like a guest, fit like a guest,
drink like a guest, pretty much be like a guest,
and if you don't abide by it, I will create
my own rules for the day. They were not happy
about that, so I proceeded to order a pizza and
we waited outside until that pizza came, and we did
(15:49):
not make it in for intros. I said, where is
my photographer? And I said, we're waiting for our pizza
because your caterer said we cannot eat. Rather than being
treated like steerage, yep, hold on, hold on, I think
that's kind of a pompous ass thing to do. Yeah,
if I paid there to take my pictures, you need
(16:11):
to have you get your accentery and take my picture.
We were there for the photos. But the thing I'm
not going to nourish you fuck you. So it comes
with the territory. I know it doesn't fuck you in.
And then you tried fifteen times more than all the others.
(16:32):
If I listen, if I'm gonna sit, if I'm gonna
be with you the entire day, and I'm gonna be
with your family, and I'm gonna be treated as an
equal with you for the entire day. When I get
to your venue, I don't get shot down somebody. The
energy to shoot those pictures is important. You've done so
many weddings after all these years. What are you doing?
(16:59):
One said, these couples are still together? Oh ship, um,
how can you get Well? I'll tell you this. There
is one way that we know that they're not together.
The wedding album process is the last phase of your
wedding photos. If I don't hear from you in about
(17:19):
a year to a year and a half, I assume
the worst. Ye Then once I go assume the worst,
I go look on Instagram. Instagram will tell you everything
you need to know about how many people made it
or didn't make So what's the percentages overall my couples,
I'd say like ten percent don't make it. That's that's
(17:40):
not Yeah, that's not bad at all. Hey, let me
ask you this, you know, I asked this of all
of our friends who were in the business of doing
weddings and things like that. Do you see the tailtale signs?
You say to yourself, then they're not gonna last, And
sure enough they don't. Oh no. There's plenty of times
with web at the wedding and we look at each
(18:00):
other as professionals and say, what the hell is going
on here? Like how did these two end up? And
usually we know if you see it, we see it,
and everybody else sees it. It's not one of those
things where it's not as obvious as you think. You
ever been to the wedding and any of the people
they're talking about like what the hell are these two
(18:20):
doing together all the time? Okay, well, then my question is,
is uh Nate and Heather go oh no, they those
two loved each other, absolutely love each other and each other.
What about Sam and Will? Of course, I mean, listen,
(18:41):
out of all of you, there is not any toll
tales sign that any of you are separating any time soon.
I saw nothing but pure joy, love and happiness out
of all three of you and all the fairness. Sam's
check hasn't cleared yet. Scary. You need to book him
(19:02):
now because he books up. Here's what I'm gonna say, Jesus,
you're the worst. You can tell awful. Go ahead, Sorry, No,
I was gonna say, is if you look at all
three groups of pictures, you can tell in the pictures
how genuine it is because you could see how happy
(19:24):
all three of you were. That's nice. Usually when I
have a couple that they're really not going to make it,
you can tell. Usually have a groom that's more worried
about his hair than his wife. You know, you have
these faces. I'm like, oh, can you just look at
your wife and you know how tell how much you
love her? I love you? You just see it doesn't happen,
(19:44):
so you got you see it in the photos. And
that's why when you look at my page on Instagram
where you look at photos like wow, these pictures are
so beautiful because it's real, and if it's not really,
don't look right. I want you to shoot my twenties
anniversary next year and convince my husband and get remarried
in the haunted mansion and we'll just do let's do it.
(20:04):
He's not gonna look happy while doing that, Danielle. He's not.
He says, no, He's like, no, we're not doing that. Well, Phil,
it's been great having you here. I can try to
remember where he is on Instagram. It's Philip, Philip underscore, Ciciliano.
There you go. You're the best, and we love he
loves to be Martin. You can time to time, Yes,
(20:26):
you do. All right, Well, we gotta get out of here.
Have a beautiful day. By the fifteen minute Morning Show
What would you talk about on your on your podcast,
Firm Elvis Presents fifteen minute Morning Show. Here we go
into the fifteen minute morning show podcast. It may or
may not be fifteen minutes. Who cares? This is what
we call it. Uh. In the house today, there's Froggy
(00:23):
and there's Gandhi. I see Scotty. What are you doing? Scotty?
There was a chunk of banana on this receipt. I
had to fling it off. Okay, the banana flinger is
in the house. And there's Danielle, and there's straight Nate
and we have a very special guest today there with
Garrett is Psycho Phil legally Phil Siciliano is how you
(00:46):
say it Siliano clo as in sicily. Anyway, Phil has
a reason for being here, and you're going to be
so excited to find out why. Uh do we need
to cover anything about the big show, the Wednesday show
before we can move forward? It's a great show, great show.
We hammered out another home run. Everybody boom that we
(01:08):
guessed the secret news anchor Butt Holer. We all guess
who it was? Can we say who it was? Or not? Well,
when you say butth Holer he explain what that means.
So somebody who's a hunky ABC former ABC news anchor
is supposedly a nudist, So we're all guessing who it
wasn't We did not guess it on the air, but
we guess it off the air. And the nudist to
(01:29):
me is a butt holer because you're just walking around
sitting on everything. We bot hold out. So I don't
think we could say the the story because the reason
why Rob can't say it is because he can get sued.
We can say, permit, we just guessed it. Yeah, it
to Andrew Cuomo. Yeah, there you go. It's he sits
running but holes his furniture. Who cares? Why are we
(01:51):
making such a big deal out of it for a
governor who family? Can you imagine going up to Syracuse
and going to the governor's mansion. You see a little
brown dots on all the furniture and you want to
be naked in your house. That's all good, but there
(02:13):
it's all But he not Syracuse. We should move the state.
He doesn't. Doesn't the former governor also have nipple rings?
Wasn't that the big one? So Phil is here, Phil
uh to tell the story. Again. Phil used to work
on our show years and years ago, and then he
left our show and became this superstar in the photography world.
(02:37):
As a matter of fact, he shot some of those
beautiful some of those beautiful, beautiful shots at people's weddings,
and uh he got what a job he did at
our wedding several years ago. We saw him the other
night close to the microphone. What's that I've made my
go around at this table. Yeah, many different ways. Tell
us didn't. Wasn't even a doubt, like we're getting filled
(03:03):
because he's oh wait, wait, you didn't for what the wedding.
We weren't invited to that one. The only way we'll
ever see that wedding is through Phil's photography. So basically
Phil has done most of this table. So of course
he was at Sam's wedding the other night. So next
week we have to all get together. Froggy's flying in
for a very special morning show uh photo shoot and
(03:25):
fills in charge. So we're here for you to tell us,
give us some tips on how we can maximize our
time together and look great for these photos. What do
we wear so clothing wise optional? No, I would say
dress like you unless there's some kind of specific outfit
that they want you in. Be as you as possible,
(03:47):
because when you take a picture, you want to see you.
You don't want to see made up version of who
you're supposed to be. Right, we want you to be you.
So sky's the limit I guess as to what you
can wear. Um, well, I tell you this. The people
who think they are our bosses who aren't, are suggesting
(04:08):
certain outfits, right Andrew, and Andrew, he's busy with the movers,
He's right there, he's here. Andrew has been in contact
with one person in particular that it's just the worst. Hey, Andrew,
can you hear me? Yep. So we're talking about with
Phil about our our photo session next week and what
wardrobe should be. So the people at Premier are saying
(04:32):
they want us to dress a certain way, and we're saying,
fuck you, We'll do what we want. What are they
suggesting we wear? So the casual outfit? Maybe if we
all want to pick a color that we kind of
all match in this way. We don't have some green,
some red, some blues, some pinks, some oranges. What's wrong
with that? I like a lot of different colors and
I mean it makes more fun. Yeah, I think that
(04:54):
would look good. I think do colors great? Don't go
to match you, match you. We don't want this to
look like a Chris This card, definitely, although we do
also have to take a Christmas card, so be aware.
Um so uh yeah, just not too many colors like
casuale and then give us a color number. That to
an Indian person, that's all we do is too many cards.
I will give you a pantoe number prior so you
(05:16):
can match the pantone. Here's one thing I will tell you,
whatever you do wear, don't let it conflict with your
skin tone. Conflict perfect example, see how you're wearing a
bright orange shirt right now, Yes, don't do that. The
brightness of the color on you will bounce onto your
(05:38):
skin complexion and you kind of blend. So who could
wear this shirt? Well right now to work? But ill
that thought for people watching this podcast. They don't see
scary where's this camera Diana's cameras, so they're watching, they're
watching bright orange shirt. Thank you, no shirt. I'm just
saying for Oh, I mean, listen, I'm wearing a Clark
(06:01):
Griswold Christmas T shirt right now I wouldn't wear that
for a photo session, but try and stay away from
colors where if you took a picture of yourself, like, wow,
that looks really bright. Stay neutral. Neutral tones always work
the best, but not flesh tone because sometimes people look
naked and weird places like Josh Groban yesterday on whatever
show he was, Yeah, it looked like he was naked
under his jacket. What about Gandhi though she's dark, complexed
(06:24):
and and and diamond, what should they wear? I would
wear colors that neutralize you like, So what colors would
you normally wear on a daily basis? I wear a
lot of black. I also like royal blue, like a
sapphire blue color. I like green those. Okay, so you
wouldn't wear something though that like Alvis just said, like, uh,
(06:48):
brain fart, sorry COVID brain neutral um, flush time, yes,
flushtimes for a photo exactly? No way. Do you see
how he's wearing orange kind of matches his fleshing? Okay,
all right, all right, all right? Can I can? Can
I do like a different color camussels underneath, like a
(07:09):
cute leather jacket type of thing. Those types of works
like leather. I'm doing leather we'll do leather together, leather too,
This is great, there's okay, it's okay, cal hide fabulous.
What else? Andrew? The people from who they think are above,
what do they say they want us to wear? Um,
So a casual outfit, something that shows off your personality,
(07:29):
kind of like what Phil was saying. I think we've
all agreed. Nothing that's gonna be flesh tone or neutralize you.
But then they also want like a classier photo, more formal.
And that's where I stepped in and I said, we
can't make it look like we're doing like a like
a cabaret type of dealing to a formal Yeah, no,
none of that. So again formal but our version of formal,
(07:52):
Which why do we pull off? Well, why don't we
just choose one outfit? That's it? Just bring an outfit.
Don't I love that? Ye don't bring a change of outfit. Really,
people in the back, we're just bringing one outfit. Well,
let's bring one outfit. Okay. Well, they only wanted you,
Danielle and Gandhi to do the formal ones. So I
guess maybe they thought you were doing a cabaret change
(08:15):
but maybe not like a formal outfit not a ball down.
I don't think I have a ball. I think I'm
just going to bring a couple of different colored jackets. Yeah,
you want bring different jackets to put over what you're wearing.
Perfect will change everything? Great idea, I'm in. I got
a questions. Great, is a white camisol okay? Or is
white not good? What's a camisole like a tank top?
(08:38):
I fancy? Or one? Um? What about wearing white? Bill?
How does that work? Wearing all white? I looked a
little pale in my wedding picture. I noticed about that
white shirt. I looked a little gone or one tone.
I'm not even joking for me. It is for me.
It is for me. It is I take my shirt off,
I'm like black alabaster. It's a kay, but just a
(09:01):
little hint of color. Yeah, but I would have color
on top of the white. That's fine, that's fine. I
can't do black because then my hair blends. Right. Somebody
who photographs people in white every single weekend, it obviously works. Yeah,
so yeah, it's okay, it's fine. Can you make me
tan when you do the touch ups? You wear his
T shirt? Can you can you do stuff to remove
(09:23):
some excess fat? On my face. We have angles angles,
the angles, because there are plenty of times where like
I'll take a picture and I think, oh, that's a
great picture, and then someone else will take a picture
and I have seventeen chins. Yeah, me too. You just
thought heads up on that. For anyone who's ever worked
with me before, I'm notorious for saying, yeah, I hate
the way that looks. I'm going to tell you I
(09:44):
appreciate that. I will literally look at you and be like, wow,
that looks like we have to Can you make my
forehead not a five six eight head instead, It'll be
a forehead. A lot of miracles here all of us. Hey,
can we talk about what it was like. We were
all in Santa Fe for our wedding and Alex and
(10:05):
I were taking all these photos dozens of millions of
trillions of photos with Phil and at one point Alex
just stood up and said no, mar and he got
mad and stormed out. That was my favorite moment. That
was at the end of the wedding. We were like,
no if that was the night of the rehearsal dinner.
My my favorite part was on your wedding day when
we were walking through the streets, and you looked at
(10:25):
me and went, all right, phil you have ten minutes. Go.
The whole vision of doing all these amazing photos throughout
the streets, I mean, I went on a a search
mission to get all these different spots, and then we
get there and you're like, yeah, you got ten minutes,
so go. We were at the end of our rope.
(10:47):
But I will say it turned out amazing because what
we got was phenomenal. And yeah, you the two you
had an amazing day and the pictures show it. But
you don't feel your photography always always it turns out
extraordinarily perfect. I mean, if you what is your what's
your Instagram? Philip underscore Siciliano. I know everyone tells me
to change it, but if I change it, no one
(11:09):
will know where I am anymore. You can you can
follow find him from our follows too. Yeah, I mean
check all of these incredible photos. This this beautiful artwork
he creates his and his little girl is the cutest
thing in the Oh, she's adorable. We had Jack's on
the air today. She talked, we talked about Daisy May. Yeah,
(11:29):
but anyway, I want you to check out his photography
because it really if you can't get filled to your
wedding or your event. You can at least say, hey, photographer, person,
look at what this guy does and let them be
inspired by what you've been told. My page is a
good inspiration board. There's actually several photographers who come around
and they don't like it so much. I take it
as flattery, but the brides will go to them with
(11:51):
a packet of photos and say, hey, can you make
it look like this? And it's a bunch of my photos.
So let me just come to you and ask you
to do with them. Know there's that they could be
an Alaska or Paris. But how did you get into this?
I mean, this is a great story. Phil was with
us doing radio and then all of a sudden we
all sort of win our separate ways. Then the next
(12:13):
thing you know, he's a superstar photographer. How did you
pick up a camera and get this started? So I
always kind of liked photography, it wasn't something that was
a passion of mine forever. Um My wife bought me
a camera for my birthday because right after we got married,
I said, you know, I want a good camera. I
want to start taking pictures. And she said, you know,
(12:33):
you're good at this, why don't you start a small business?
So all right, you know I was a teacher at
the time. I said, I will teach during the week,
take pictures on the weekend. One thing led to another.
My first year a book six weddings, second year of
book twelve, third year of book sixty weddings. It was
kind of a that's where you're supposed to be in life,
(12:57):
this is what you're supposed to do. The job found
on me. I didn't go look for it. And then
that when you do something that doesn't feel like work,
it shines through. Have you become judging about weddings now,
like you're going this food is ship. Well, I will
tell you this, being a wedding photographer and being at
a wedding every single weekend, it's very dangerous on the
(13:21):
stomach because if you talk to anybody, they'll all tell
you the same thing. The best food is at the
cocktail hour. And think about how you just engorge yourself
at a cocktail hour. Now try doing that to three
times a weekend. You know, you could choose not to
get in line at the cocktail it's just so tempting. Yeah,
(13:43):
what's the worst wedding you've ever been at. Oh god,
just like you know name, give us something about it.
Nate's in the room, Nate's wedding. I will say this
food wise was amazing because we actually went for pizza,
my favorite pizzeria and that's right. Yeah. We did a
photo shoot, which is actually, this is something that you
(14:05):
should recommend to people. Just do a day where you
do pictures with your significant other, where you with your wife,
your wife or your your husband, because it takes all
the stress off. Oh my god, we had such a
fun day driving around different parts of Manhattan in New
York City and just he's like, oh, get out of
the car, let's take a picture here. We don't even
know what to hang up in our house because we
(14:25):
have four dozen photos that are like, well, what about
this one? What about this one? What about that one?
He's just he doesn't take pictures. What do I say, Phil,
He makes pictures. You create art, you capture moments. I'll
back to the worst wedding. Well I shouldn't say worst wedding,
(14:47):
I mean challenging. In the ten years that I'm doing
this ten years now, there's three brides that if someone said, yeah,
they got hit by a bus, I'd probably say, Okay,
out of almost, you know, eight hundred weddings, i'd say
(15:08):
that's pretty good. But there was one wedding and it
was out a venue in Brooklyn, and caterers are usually
the biggest assholes there are, and I will never forget this.
We walked in, we had just worked about seven hours,
it was time to eat, and they said, listen, you
cannot go near any of the food. What are you
(15:29):
talking about. I purposely have in my contract I am
allowed to eat like a guest, fit like a guest,
drink like a guest, pretty much be like a guest,
and if you don't abide by it, I will create
my own rules for the day. They were not happy
about that, so I proceeded to order a pizza and
we waited outside until that pizza came, and we did
(15:49):
not make it in for intros. I said, where is
my photographer? And I said, we're waiting for our pizza
because your caterer said we cannot eat. Rather than being
treated like steerage, yep, hold on, hold on, I think
that's kind of a pompous ass thing to do. Yeah,
if I paid there to take my pictures, you need
(16:11):
to have you get your accentery and take my picture.
We were there for the photos. But the thing I'm
not going to nourish you fuck you. So it comes
with the territory. I know it doesn't fuck you in.
And then you tried fifteen times more than all the others.
(16:32):
If I listen, if I'm gonna sit, if I'm gonna
be with you the entire day, and I'm gonna be
with your family, and I'm gonna be treated as an
equal with you for the entire day. When I get
to your venue, I don't get shot down somebody. The
energy to shoot those pictures is important. You've done so
many weddings after all these years. What are you doing?
(16:59):
One said, these couples are still together? Oh ship, um,
how can you get Well? I'll tell you this. There
is one way that we know that they're not together.
The wedding album process is the last phase of your
wedding photos. If I don't hear from you in about
(17:19):
a year to a year and a half, I assume
the worst. Ye Then once I go assume the worst,
I go look on Instagram. Instagram will tell you everything
you need to know about how many people made it
or didn't make So what's the percentages overall my couples,
I'd say like ten percent don't make it. That's that's
(17:40):
not Yeah, that's not bad at all. Hey, let me
ask you this, you know, I asked this of all
of our friends who were in the business of doing
weddings and things like that. Do you see the tailtale signs?
You say to yourself, then they're not gonna last, And
sure enough they don't. Oh no. There's plenty of times
with web at the wedding and we look at each
(18:00):
other as professionals and say, what the hell is going
on here? Like how did these two end up? And
usually we know if you see it, we see it,
and everybody else sees it. It's not one of those
things where it's not as obvious as you think. You
ever been to the wedding and any of the people
they're talking about like what the hell are these two
(18:20):
doing together all the time? Okay, well, then my question is,
is uh Nate and Heather go oh no, they those
two loved each other, absolutely love each other and each other.
What about Sam and Will? Of course, I mean, listen,
(18:41):
out of all of you, there is not any toll
tales sign that any of you are separating any time soon.
I saw nothing but pure joy, love and happiness out
of all three of you and all the fairness. Sam's
check hasn't cleared yet. Scary. You need to book him
(19:02):
now because he books up. Here's what I'm gonna say, Jesus,
you're the worst. You can tell awful. Go ahead, Sorry, No,
I was gonna say, is if you look at all
three groups of pictures, you can tell in the pictures
how genuine it is because you could see how happy
(19:24):
all three of you were. That's nice. Usually when I
have a couple that they're really not going to make it,
you can tell. Usually have a groom that's more worried
about his hair than his wife. You know, you have
these faces. I'm like, oh, can you just look at
your wife and you know how tell how much you
love her? I love you? You just see it doesn't happen,
(19:44):
so you got you see it in the photos. And
that's why when you look at my page on Instagram
where you look at photos like wow, these pictures are
so beautiful because it's real, and if it's not really,
don't look right. I want you to shoot my twenties
anniversary next year and convince my husband and get remarried
in the haunted mansion and we'll just do let's do it.
(20:04):
He's not gonna look happy while doing that, Danielle. He's not.
He says, no, He's like, no, we're not doing that. Well, Phil,
it's been great having you here. I can try to
remember where he is on Instagram. It's Philip, Philip underscore, Ciciliano.
There you go. You're the best, and we love he
loves to be Martin. You can time to time, Yes,
(20:26):
you do. All right, Well, we gotta get out of here.
Have a beautiful day. By the fifteen minute Morning Show
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