There is a guy in the photo???
All seriousness aside, the "jewelry" is the "wrist ornament" which the woman in the picture seems to prefer wearing on her upper arm.
It seems this is the way the artist sees them being worn:
Oh, there's the guy!
Posted on 06/11/2006 3:14:42 AM PDT by MadIvan
WEDDING photography, once a restrained art, is becoming a risqué business. A growing number of American brides are marking their big day by commissioning portraits of themselves in raunchy poses and lingerie, writes John Harlow.
This month, when a quarter of America’s annual 2m weddings take place, brides’ parents are paying up to £6,000 for an “action photographer”, whose brief is to capture their daughter “accidentally” exposing sexy garters or her knickers.
The American wedding is changing fast. Traditionalists have already lamented a switch to homemade vows, such as “to stay together so long as we make each other laugh”, and a large-scale abandonment of white since Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of Sex and the City, got married in black.
The paparazzi-style wedding photographs are the latest shock to the establishment, although some clerics are going along with it.
Frank Ray, a Baptist minister in Tennessee, was the target of outrage when his bride published nuptial snaps of herself and her maids of honour dressed in plunging black leather bustiers on the internet. “It was fabulous fun, and something we shall always remember,” said the 58-year-old minister.
Wedding photographers say such pictures are becoming the rage across all sections of US society. Steven Gross, a Chicago photographer, said he had taken nearly 8,000 shots at a recent £100,000 wedding, but the most prominent one in the album was a close-up of bridal cleavage.
“Brides, and sometimes the groom, want to show off their gym-fit bodies,” said a spokesman for Equinox, a gym chain that offers a “wedding boot camp”.
Richard Albans, a photographer in Los Angeles, turned to wedding work after being punched by a Hollywood bodyguard.
“But I did not realise what today’s bride really wants: a true evocation of that moment when she was at her most sexually and socially powerful,” he said.
“She wants to remind her spouse why he married her. It was not just because she looked radiant in white — underneath she was downright dirty and dangerous in a black garter or red-sequinned bra.
“It’s more Las Vegas showgirl than blushing bride.”
One of his clients, who is marrying later this year, said she was planning on opening the doors to her bridal boudoir for three days before the main event. “I want a big book of photographs, showing everything from me flashing my boobs as I get dressed to my boyfriend having his chest waxed,” she said.
“It’s about intimacy, the real story, as well as silly fun.”
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The photo you posted is a gorgeous couple. I checked the properties of the photo to see if it would tell me who they were. I didn't learn who they were but I did find an interesting contradiction. The photo comes from a place called Jewels by Jessica but there are absolutely no jewels visible in the photo.
That is, except for the outline of the stiff nipples that are plainly visible. Apologies to you or anyone else on the forum to whom these folks may be kin, but the "pointer sisters" clearly create another contradiction -- this one with the concept of the white dress.
But still, they are a very attractive couple.
There is a guy in the photo???
All seriousness aside, the "jewelry" is the "wrist ornament" which the woman in the picture seems to prefer wearing on her upper arm.
It seems this is the way the artist sees them being worn:
Thanks for providing proof that women can be totally alluring without being naked ;o)
Thanks, I'm flattered, especially coming from someone who's done weddings.
“It’s more Las Vegas showgirl than blushing bride.”
Look at it this way -- she'll have something to look back on in her old age.
What this thread lacks is nice white trash engagement photos, both "casual" and "posed"
And there is no competition for most extreme wedding video.
Woofing Wedding Video
Claim: Friends gathered to view the video record of a newly-married couple's special day were instead treated to a literal episode of I Love Lassie.
Status: True. http://www.snopes.com/risque/animals/woofing.asp
It ended badly, to say the least......
Oh my!
Because the bouquet toss is for the girls only. The guys are just standing around watching.
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