To hate that obligatory bent over kiss so common in wedding photos nowadays?

[birdonawire1]

You know the one. Man bends his bride over backwards and fake kisses her.
Cheesy, cheap and cringe making.

Or is it just me?

I didn't have wedding photos and I'm not sure what you mean but my DH and I are the same height so we would've found it tricky....

As a feminist I think it’s a bit demeaning!

In our relationship it would be me doing the kissing and him doing the leaning tif!

Yes! Also add to that the staged photos of the bride dragging the groom. Just why?

Dont forget the running leap. Or the bizarre ones of the bride getting ready and picking her bouquet up off the bathroom floor - just to get the roll top bath and her pedicure in the shot.

It's all a bit odd.

I remember the cheesy ones of the 70's and 80's though with face of bridge and groom superimposed on a champagne glass

My mum and dad have one of those, but they're on a wine bottle

Why does it matter? Not your wedding pictures and they can pose however they want.

Aw, do you remember the soft focus ones with the misty edges?

Tell you what are excellent - Russian wedding photos. They go bonkers with photoshop. I’ll see if I can find a link...

Here you go - Russian wedding pics

images.app.goo.gl/hmkRffdSiovDLwEg6

Hideous ....as are some other examples. Champagne glasses? What were they thinking?

Forget the link...I'm useless

Love the Russian ones!

just lovely

Those Russian wedding pics are ace. Some weird and hilarious ones there!

The photographers used to do some naff cheesy pics in the 80s and 90s. I have seen pics where the couple is kissing, and then a superimposed pic of them looking at - and reaching out to themselves is printed on.

Also the soft focus look with the edges - usually of the bride, looking forlorn, with her bouquet next to her face. All naff and cheesy.

Didn't the woman in the D-Day pic come out and say that she'd been forced into that position by the guy, who she didn't know? It looks pretty uncomfortable let alone when you're not actually expecting it

Oh no! I have a kissing bent backwards one, back-lit by the sunset in the middle of a ruined Abbey. And it's my favourite photo!

In my defence, if you can't go completely romantic on your wedding day, then when can you?

Not everyone's cup of tea, I suppose.

I think mine are the opposite, the photographer got the "You may now kiss the bride" bit in church and it surprised me to see I was grabbing DH's arms as if I'd gone "Come here, you!"

I got married over 30 years ago and I have all of the cheesy shots - the champagne glass and the misty edges included. I love them all and one day I will get around to taking them out of the shoe box and putting them in an album.

I can’t envisage what you mean OP. Do you have a picture?

Our photographer just didn’t subscribe to these posed pictures quite a recent wedding, he did mainly natural pics with a few posed couple ones of us where he did make us stand there. The only thing he made us “act” for was making my dad walk into the room when I’d got ready. It looks very awkward and so not what me and my dad would do, we aren’t a huggy family so being told to “embrace” was weird! I’d have liked the vail blowing in the wind pic though, we had a beautiful view on one of the nicest days of the year it’d made an amazing pic at sunset, I totally forgot to ask the photographer to do it. Paid £150 for a huge vail and didn’t get a proper pic of it.

My brother had an awful one (at his first wedding lol) in about 2000 where he’s trying to remove his ex wife’s garter... with his mouth, when my mum saw it she gasped, grim. I also saw one where the husband played American football so they got all the wedding party to do that bend over picking up the ball thing, only the women were in front men behind, looked all kinds of wrong!!

I really hate cheesy crap. We got married at the registry office and got a couple of iPhone snaps outside 😄

I remember our photographer saying we would do some 'jokey' pictures, including us holding onto the wrought iron gate as if we were in a cage... we said no thanks!

We had a photographer who caught the real moments and we didn’t have any staged photos, it was exactly as we wanted it, mainly as DH gets too nervous when he’s posing for photos and ends up furiously blinking.

Some people can just envisage what they’d like hung up on the wall, and try to recreate it, it doesn’t really bother me.

The worst one I’ve ever seen is from my Aunt’s very early 90’s wedding. Her and my uncle are in their hideously late 80’s wedding attire, (with large puffy sleeves) and superimposed in the background is a misty picture of a horse that was in the field behind them.

I suppose if you like that kind if thing...

We had a few posed ones where my face was hurting from fake smiling, I wish I'd had the courage to tell the photographer not to bother! There's one that I remember took ages to get right - we're standing by a pond pointing (at nothing) and looking all amazed - every time I see it all I can think about is how bored and hungry I was at the time .

Good for the Russians! Much better than the cliched ‘funnies’ that we get treated to ad nauseum. What is the latest craze? Trashing the dress?

In my day it was lines of ushers and best man all doffing their top hats to the bride in a bad Chorus Line impression, bride coyly-but-daringly displaying her garter etc.

I got married 19 years ago (tommorow) and don’t have soft focus, leant back or champagne glass photos. I feel very left out!