Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Internet Journalism

Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by brendanobrien on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:23PM (#5954482)

I;d say, it's his wedding. The answer to "Why not do it this way?" is that as a couple, that's not what they wanted. This only looks "faked" is because we have no personal connection with the couple.

I'm with you on the sensationalist bit, and would take it the additional step of assuming we have no right to barge in & opine over someone else's wedding... so long as they're not hurting anyone (or any trees). I'm guessing that last bit is the sticking point :)

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Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by resu_nimda on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:38PM (#5954559)

Yeah, I tried not to be overly judgmental, it is his wedding and his money, but it's pretty common for people to react poorly to opulent displays of personal wealth. I said "faked" because they literally trucked in a fake castle and forest, among other things to the tune of a few million dollars. It just seems inconsistent with a professed love of nature, and hardly "the antithesis of the technology-infested world we live in."

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Re:Weddings Used To Be Sacred And Other Lessons About Intern... by brendanobrien on Thursday June 27, 2013 @04:42PM (#5954580)

Sounds like solid logic to me. Glad to have that one explicitly worked out :)

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