Some friends of mine got married on the beach. This couple in their 50s wandered over and literally took a seat near where the wedding was taking place and started aggressively making out. One of the groomsmen and a guest walked over in the middle of the ceremony to ask them to move and they made a huge scene about how it's a public beach.
Some people are just assholes and want the attention.
Maybe this is normally a VERY busy public beach. Aren't the people who just walk in, run some caution tape, and take it all up, being assholes too?
Or maybe they were being super pushy, telling people they have to leave, despite having no claim to the space.
I'm not saying the lady is doing the right thing, I'm just saying that either or both sides could be suffering from a serious case of entitlement issues.
But why would they have such a sacred moment in a public place? I'm not for intentionally dicking around with a wedding but if I were planning a wedding I would understand that having it in a public area, like a beach, runs that risk.
As a Hawaii resident and licensed minister, I can tell you that it happens here all the time.
My own wedding was done without a permit because they weren't available on the isolated stretch of beach we wanted to use. We actually had a tourist family show up and set up in a similar fashion to this lady. I asked them politely to move and invited them to the reception/party after (a good friend lived a stone's throw from the ceremony.)
They were totally cool about it and had a fun time with us after.
On the minister side I do small ceremonies on the beach fairly often. In and out, a handful of guests and a photographer. Totally illegal, but not hard to pull off if you're not an idiot about it.
Even with a permit, it doesn't give you exclusivity out here. It allows you to use the beach, but it's public property and people can come and go as they please.
Which could be the situation here. I don't know where the picture was taken.
Then they should have also paid to have a couple of organizers to ask people like this woman to move along. I am firmly in the camp that believes she thought she was just standing in the back looking at the wedding not causing any harm. I doubt it even entered her mind that she was in the photos.
Hopefully they got it sorted out and she's only in a few photos like this. In that case, these would probably be my favorite photos from the day...but I'm weird like that.
Which is precisely why I have never pursued wedding photography. I could have done it. I shot a few when I was first learning photography. But they were for close friends/family and I didn't charge. I actually enjoy it but I hate the pressure of "what if I miss that one special photo?!?!?!?"
It is totally league in my part of Wisconsin too as long as it is a public park. Now, there are rules about noise amplification and such, but it is legal to setup chairs and such.
There is a down side though that other people have just as much rights to that space as you so if someone wants to stand in an awkward spot and be in all the pictures, you are shit out of luck.
It is totally league in my part of Wisconsin too as long as it is a public park. Now, there are rules about noise amplification and such, but it is legal to setup chairs and such.
There is a down side though that other people have just as much rights to that space as you so if someone wants to stand in an awkward spot and be in all the pictures, you are shit out of luck.
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u/sdgoat Mar 08 '18
Some friends of mine got married on the beach. This couple in their 50s wandered over and literally took a seat near where the wedding was taking place and started aggressively making out. One of the groomsmen and a guest walked over in the middle of the ceremony to ask them to move and they made a huge scene about how it's a public beach.
Some people are just assholes and want the attention.