Lidia has photographed forty weddings, and she thinks she has seen every possible problem. By two o'clock, the ceremony is over, and she has taken about four hundred pictures. Then she checks the screen of her main camera. A small red message says: "Card error. Cannot read."
莉迪亚拍过四十场婚礼，她觉得自己什么问题都遇到过了。到下午两点，仪式已经结束，她拍了大约四百张照片。这时她看了一眼主相机的屏幕，上面有一条红色的小提示：“存储卡错误，无法读取。”
Her heart beats faster. She takes the card out, puts it back in, and turns the camera off and on. Nothing changes. The vows, the rings and the first kiss are all on that card. The couple will never do them again.
她的心跳加快了。她把卡取出来，再插回去，又把相机关掉再打开。什么都没有改变。誓言、戒指和第一个吻，全都在那张卡里。新人不可能再来一遍了。
Lidia takes a slow breath. A good photographer, she tells herself, always has a plan B. She puts the broken card into an envelope, so she won't use it by mistake. Then she takes her backup camera from the bag. It is older and smaller, but it works.
莉迪亚慢慢吸了一口气。她告诉自己，好摄影师总是有备用方案。她把坏掉的卡放进一个信封，免得不小心又用上。然后她从包里拿出备用相机。它更旧也更小，但还能用。
Then she finds the bride, Brigid, and explains the problem quietly. She expects tears, but Brigid only raises her eyebrows. "Well," she says, "everyone here has a phone. Ask them."
接着她找到新娘布丽奇特，小声地解释了这个问题。她以为会看到眼泪，可布丽奇特只是扬了扬眉毛。“嗯，”她说，“这里每个人都有手机。问问他们吧。”
At the start of the lunch, Lidia borrows the microphone. "Dear guests, I need a small favour," she says. "If you took pictures of the ceremony, please send them to me. Even the blurry ones. Especially the ones from the back row."
午宴开始的时候，莉迪亚借来了话筒。“亲爱的各位来宾，我想请大家帮个小忙，”她说，“如果你们拍了仪式的照片，请发给我。模糊的也行。尤其是后排拍的。”
By the time dessert arrives, a shared folder is filling up. There is a photo of the groom wiping his eyes, taken by his grandmother. There are pictures of the bridesmaids walking in, taken by a little boy from knee height. Lidia has to admit that some of them are charming.
等到上甜点的时候，一个共享文件夹里已经塞满了照片。有一张是新郎擦眼睛的照片，是他奶奶拍的。还有伴娘们走进来的照片，是一个小男孩从膝盖的高度拍的。莉迪亚不得不承认，其中有些很有魅力。
She works until the last dance with her backup camera. She does not stop smiling for a moment. Nobody at the party can tell that anything has gone wrong.
她用备用相机一直拍到最后一支舞。她一刻也没有停止微笑。派对上没有人看得出出了什么差错。
At home that night, she is too nervous to sleep. She installs a recovery program on her laptop and connects the broken card. Then she watches the progress bar crawl across the screen. It takes four hours. When it finishes, she holds her breath and opens the folder.
那天夜里回到家，她紧张得睡不着。她在笔记本电脑上安装了一个恢复程序，接上那张坏卡。然后她看着进度条在屏幕上慢慢爬。花了四个小时。完成的时候，她屏住呼吸，打开了文件夹。
Most of the files are there, from the walk down the aisle to the cutting of the cake. Only the last thirty are damaged.
大部分文件都在，从走过红毯一直到切蛋糕。只有最后的三十张损坏了。
Lidia types a short message to Brigid and attaches the full album. "Good news," she writes. "You have more photos than I promised."
莉迪亚给布丽奇特写了一条简短的消息，附上了完整的相册。“好消息，”她写道，“你得到的照片比我承诺的还多。”
