I am a dinosaur as my 49th birthday is less than six months away.
I am dinosaur adjacent, with 46 in a couple months.
Women for the most part would choose the most unrealistic results as an option. I didn't notice as much with men, but times might be changing.
I didn't give them those options - they got what I wanted them to have! I have only shot a few weddings in my time, and it wasn't what I would even consider a side gig. I think my goal in photography is to capture the moment as it feels. The editing I would do would clean it up, but they would be the best version of themselves in that moment, but very much themselves.
He found some via online dating sites and some in real life, but it is very different from what I did before I was married. The world might have changed in the last ten plus years...
But, you got married. You found someone you could commit to and they you. It is rare for the younger generation now, and while they knock the attitudes of the dinosaurs, they are nearly all lonely, depressed, struggling for meaning. It is sad if they live life like that for decades on end, isn't it?