To think if you arrange for wedding photos in a public park you shouldn't ask other park users to move?

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Reading this news story: www.heart.co.uk/lifestyle/relationships/bride-selfish-sunbather-ruins-wedding-photos/

I felt a bit sorry for sunbather being called selfish, publically shamed and in papers /on YouTube now.

Surely if you choose a public place for photos you can't be surprised not to have exclusive use?

I can’t open the link but what kind of person wouldn’t move away for wedding photos?

If you were a decent person you would move. Not like the sun was only available in that spot!

I agree about the public place but she could have moved! Why would you lie there sunbathing when people are having their photos

Nah, the sunbather was being a dick. As long as they asked politely surely it would be the decent thing to move? It wouldn’t have taken more than a couple of mins surely? Why wouldn’t you? It’s not a great hardship, surely?

There’s another thread about this. The wedding party were acting like entitled fuckers and weren’t very nice about asking her to move.

I would move. Why not. Its nice to be nice isn't it.

Ooh looks like I'm outnumbered a bit. Haven't seen other thread...which section?

She moved after 10- 15 minutes so doesn't sound like it was only for a minute or two.

I would move..wouldn't want to be in photos but it seems a bit entitled of wedding party.

I haven’t read the link but I think it depends on who was there first. If the bride and groom arrived to find someone sunbathing in the spot they wanted them they were shit out of luck. If it was particularly significant location because of the setting or some other reason then of course politely ask if someone wouldn’t mind moving .( and I would obviously move if asked nicely ). If however the bride and groom were there first I wouldn’t expect someone to plonk themselves down in the shot - that would be dickish. Asking rudely though is ridiculous and inevitably will lead to refusal.

Sunbather was a caaaah. Why would you ruin someones wedding photo?

Sunbather was there first is my understanding.

Havent clicked the link but if they asked nicely then i would move, no harm done. If they came over shouting at me to move then i would of stayed in protest (but i am a bit of a witch like that,). But where is the harm in moving? Its the same on holiday if you can see someone is trying to take a nice photo I dont want to be in the back ground so i move out of the way..... simple manners

Sunbather was being a dick

Although not very nice of the wedding party to put photos up too. She looked well settled there with her stuff. I wonder how they actually came across when they asked her. Because I might not move if the request was delivered in an unpleasant entitled manner tbf. And putting her photo in the paper does strike me that they may not have been very pleasant.

Wedding party were being dicks. The sunbather wasn't in any photos, they could easily work around her and she was there first anyway.

I mean, if it were me I'd happily take my stuff and move so they could get some nice photos. I wouldn't be outraged at being asked, if they asked nicely enough. But it's an example of this 'I'M ENTITLED TO BE HERE' attitude where people don't seem to have any compassion or empathy for anyone other than themselves. Sure she was there first, but would it have made much of an impact on her day to move 50 yards to the left or right so someone on their wedding day could get the pictures they want?

It comes across to me as though the wedding party were being rude and entitled, I suspect the sunbather would have moved if they had been less so.

I do feel sorry for the sunbather but why would you not move!

I got married on a beach in Jamaica and people pulled up chairs. A complete stranger filmed it also! We invited them all for food and drinks after. Great day!

But @Celebelly, that entitled attitude cuts both ways.

I imagine 99.9% of people would very happily move if asked nicely by a friendly person. But if they start out being an absolute dick, then for sure it's going to change a lot of people's willingness to be nice back.

I got the impression from the other thread that they got her back up by the way they expected her to move, as if they were entitled to be there and she wasn't.

Looking at the story the chap asked 'her to move' didn't appear to ask nicely or explain the situation so she may have taken Umbridge with the way she was asked....it is a public park anyway... I find if you ask nicely you tend to get what you want.

It depends on how they asked. If they asked politely then yes I would move..if they were being arsey about it then nah f**k you I'm not moving!

I got married in a registry office (so I wasn't in full bridal gear, if you see what I mean, just smart clothes) and we took pics in a local park. Most people wouldn't have realises it was wedding pictures we were taking, and it was honestly quite nice to have a few pics where there were people in the background just going about their business.

Close ups and 'special pics' of the two of us we took in places where there were no people in the background, so surely they could have stood in front of a bush or something for those!

He pissed off after three years, but I've still got the pictures!

I'm another one who would have moved if asked politely, but stayed put if the wedding party were rude. It's a public place which they do not own and had not hired, and they have no right to move anyone on.

Sure, but I said 'if asked nicely' in my post, and there's nothing I've read that suggests they asked rudely from what I can see. Obviously if they were rude then that's different!

I saw a pic of this the other day and it did make me laugh, the sunbather gave absolutely no fucks.

Having said that, there's being ballsy and there's being awkward for awkwards sake and I would have moved.