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Wedding pics for the brides who don't blush
The Sunday Times ^ | June 11, 2006 | John Harlow

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.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: photos; risque; wedding
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To: veronica

makes me glad I alrady got my bride and don't have to worry until my sons get married.


41 posted on 06/11/2006 6:19:16 AM PDT by driftdiver
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To: SauronOfMordor

"Is the photog going to video the wedding night too? That's the logical consumation of the trend"

Do you mean marriage porn?


42 posted on 06/11/2006 6:21:52 AM PDT by freddymuldoon
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To: MaryFromMichigan

There are those people out there, I have met them.

I saw a television thing where this guy was set up on his birthday by a radio station, where they brought him into the studio, blindfolded him, and told him he was going to get a free lap dance from a stripper.

They then brought his MOTHER in, and had him, blindfolded, feel her body with his hand and then to comment how he liked her. When they took off his blindfold, the poor guy nearly had a nervous breakdown.

I thought it was really mean spirited and low class as well. I was shocked this woman would even agree to do something like that to her son. So yeah, twisted people like that are out there.


43 posted on 06/11/2006 6:28:39 AM PDT by rlmorel ("Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does." Whittaker Chambers)
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To: I still care
After three kids and twenty- someodd years, yeah, that still describes it. I do wedding photography, and normally the only semi-racy pictures are of the bride putting on or taking off the garter. I don't think you have to show everything to be sexy.


44 posted on 06/11/2006 6:37:55 AM PDT by Richard Kimball
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To: edpc

I always thought she was way too ugly to get where she got on acting ability alone.


45 posted on 06/11/2006 6:39:28 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: AmericaUnited
So, the photog has to use a high shutter speed.

< ];^)

46 posted on 06/11/2006 6:44:24 AM PDT by Erasmus (Zwischen des Teufels und des tiefen, blauen, Meers.)
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To: Gaffer

After reading that exchange, hopefully the groom RAN, not walked, away from that pending marriage.


47 posted on 06/11/2006 6:44:48 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Candor7

Hostages. Hey, Michael Medved, if you should hap on this .... note the psychology involved. That one photo is a textbook of a deep case study.


48 posted on 06/11/2006 6:47:23 AM PDT by bvw
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To: MadIvan
Next up, the videos: "Brides Gone Wild - The Wedding", then "Brides Gone Wild - The Honeymoon", to be followed eventually by "Brides Gone Wild - The Divorce".
49 posted on 06/11/2006 6:47:23 AM PDT by tarheelswamprat
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To: MadIvan

So Paris Hilton was just doing wedding videos?


50 posted on 06/11/2006 6:48:35 AM PDT by CWOJackson
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To: edpc

Who's the babe on the right?


51 posted on 06/11/2006 6:52:13 AM PDT by Atlas Sneezed (Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
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To: MadIvan
“She wants to remind her spouse why he married her...."

If that's the only reason he married you, honey, then you're in for a world of disappointment.

52 posted on 06/11/2006 6:52:41 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: goldstategop
If a woman wants me to wax and shave my legs, I'm out of there.

Any man who shaves his legs and gets his chest waxed isn't a man in my book. I like a real man, with a little hair in the appropriate places.

So the metrosexual fad lives on in the U.S.? I wish it would hurry up and go the way of the 8-track player.

53 posted on 06/11/2006 6:55:33 AM PDT by Allegra (Mookie Sadr's Next!)
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To: MadIvan
Frank Ray, a Baptist minister in Tennessee, (said) “It was fabulous fun, and something we shall always remember,”

I call BS.

NO Baptist Minister from Tennessee would EVER say those words!

54 posted on 06/11/2006 6:57:29 AM PDT by Sometimes A River (Nations who do not know their national identity will become the prey of other nations - Atatürk)
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To: edpc
" winner of the Belmont Stakes"

LOL!!!
55 posted on 06/11/2006 7:00:09 AM PDT by NewCenturions
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To: MaryFromMichigan
What kind of parents would pay for these of pictures of their daughters?

The kind that gave "princess" anything and everything she ever wanted in life.

56 posted on 06/11/2006 7:02:47 AM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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To: MadIvan
...and a large-scale abandonment of white since Sarah Jessica Parker, the star of Sex and the City, got married in black.

Perhaps Sarah was simply trying to kill two birds with one stone and get the imminant divorce rolling at the same time in the interests of efficiency.

57 posted on 06/11/2006 7:05:45 AM PDT by Fruitbat (I)
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To: edpc

ROTFLMAO!


58 posted on 06/11/2006 7:12:41 AM PDT by CaptRon (Pedecaris alive or Raisuli dead)
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To: Fury

Ping for later read...


59 posted on 06/11/2006 7:22:25 AM PDT by Fury
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To: MadIvan
Woohoo, high class wedding photos...


60 posted on 06/11/2006 7:30:17 AM PDT by The_Victor (If all I want is a warm feeling, I should just wet my pants.)
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