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Friendly Wedding Photography: Rights and Wrongs


Anime Wedding. (cc) by-nc-sa, Sundar Raman.

Anime Wedding. (cc) by-nc-sa, Sundar Raman.

Given the title you’d think I’d go off on a matrimonial advice tangent, but I’ve (sort of) learned to be more sensible about that sort of thing after being married for as long as I have.

Getting to the point. I’ve recently been embroiled in a case of misunderstanding, misplaced trust and general misgivings all round related to wedding photography. I should probably step back and provide context so we get beyond the “whachu talkin ’bout willis” phase of the conversation.

Two very close friends of mine recently wedded each other (yeah, I word-smithed that to hell and it still sounds obscene). They only had friends at the wedding and I was asked to play the role of the minister (thank Krishna for the Internet!). Another friend volunteered to play the role of the photographer and yet another the videographer. My pals wanted just close friends and there it was.

It’s now a few weeks later, and the missing ingredient in matrimonial bliss is a rather pronounced lack of the original photographs. Read the full story

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