Today our cultural "choices" seem to be rather extreme.
Racey semi-nude hetero weddings versus staid family homs?
I 'd take the racey hetero marriage every time, even if it lasted only 5 minutes.
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.”
Today our cultural "choices" seem to be rather extreme.
Racey semi-nude hetero weddings versus staid family homs?
I 'd take the racey hetero marriage every time, even if it lasted only 5 minutes.
***“It’s about intimacy, the real story, as well as silly fun.****
Since when is placing photo's of the bride in a black bustier on the internet all that intimate.
If this guy was my baptist preacher. we would be looking for a new one.
So, if we follow this 'logic', these young women are openly acknowledging that their spouses-to-be 'selected' them because of their body. If the bride truely believes this she will spend her life obsessing about her body and in all probablility will not develop into much of anything else.
It sounds like a roadmap to misery to me.
Me too. Shows really poor discernment and lack of Godly wisdom.
My husband loves, loves, loves, the intimate surprise, but he wants it all for himself!
Uhh...this one?
Another article assaulting the institute of marriage.
Don't give me that, you toffee-faced heap of parrot-droppings !!!!
I think that it was commedianne Maria Bamford who said that after having 3 children, she's no longer able to pose for Playboy, but she thinks that she might qualify for National Geographic.
Mark
LMAO!!!!
What a magic moment,married in a courthouse lobby by what appears to be a traffic cop.
Reminds me of the time years ago when I had a legal hand-held radio that could pick up cell-phones. I was driving down the road listening....
"Hi Darling"
“Hey, baby”
“Where are you? You know we’re supposed to meet at the wedding supply store to pick out the place settings and napkins for the Reception!”
“I guess I just lost track of time. I had to get my brakes fixed, tires changed and have the car tuned up for the honeymoon.”
“Well, you certainly seem to be completely indifferent about wedding and everything.”
“I just don’t seem to have much of a knack for picking out all of that stuff, and besides you’re so good at it”
“You don’t really love me, do you?
“It’s not that, baby, but you said we’d have small wedding with a few friends and now it’s up to 500 people.”
“Maybe we shouldn’t be getting married, then?
SILENCE FROM THE GROOM THEN…..
“Darling?” then SILENCE……”Haven’t you got anything to say?” ….SILENCE
It literally went down hill from there…..
More HOMO influence. Every time a male wedding planner or fashion twit shows up, the puffda lisp is sure to follow. Fags, its all about form, not function.
Hey Sarah ...... Why the long face?
If the entire world can see, it isn't "intimate."
Tacky. Paris Hilton wannabes.
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