“Jessica has spent the best part of the last year planning this one day. Every minute detail was carefully considered and chosen. The selection of her dress alone took months. She and her husband also forked out for a world-class photographer. So she was pretty happy when one of their guests took to social media.”
Jessica Portiri married her husband Luca a few days ago. It was the culmination of almost a full year of meticulous planning and preparation. A truly wonderful day.
After months of searching, she found the wedding dress of her dreams, had locked in a spectacular venue and hired a world-class make-up artist, photographer and videographer.
This wedding was going to stunning, and the right professionals would be on hand to capture those memories forever.
However, in hindsight, she didn’t need a photographer at all. You see, she had Sharon Jenson, an acquaintance at best who used to work with her. And her trusty iPhone.
From her seat right at the back of the wedding venue, Sharon managed to snap a slightly skewed photo that caught most of the bride and about one quarter of the groom. The lighting came out very strange, but you could definitely make out that it was the bride and groom.
The blushing bride caught up with the Coastal Tribune, to discuss her acquaintance Sharon’s contribution to her special day.
“Oh yes Sharon. Thanks for that. I check my phone after the wedding and see that horrible grainy photo on Facebook and Insta. That awful photo. She tagged me and captioned it ‘Yew my girl got hitched!’. My girl! I’m not her girl. She was bloody lucky to get an invite!”
Jessica says she knows why Sharon did it.
“You know she’s scored like 100 Facebook likes for that photo, don't you? She basically stole likes from me that bitch. Did she not see that guy who looked and acted a lot like a professional photographer? That guy wasn’t an actor pretending to be a photographer. That was a real photographer taking real photographs. A bloody expensive one at that.”
This is not unusual by any means. The first photo released to the world at large is almost invariably taken by a drunk guest who falls into the “acquaintance” category.
As long as the first pic of the bride attracts Facebook and Instagram likes, this problem isn’t going anywhere.