Gate crashing a wedding to get photo experience

frank said:
37 years ago this month although not a photographer but 2 guys with a accordion and a saxaphone tried to gatecrash my wedding saying they were booked by the elderly caretaker of the hall. Quite a argument started between myself who had booked the band (mates of mine) and the 2 gatecrashers, caretaker did not know them. My best man chased me off and he and a few friends took these 2 guys out the back and gave them a bit of a hard time...cough cough! for spoiling the wedding reception relieved them of their instruments and threw them into the Water of Leith (a large river in Edinburgh) which ran behind the hall and wrecked them.

Gatecrashing a wedding could cost you your gear if you pick the wrong one to gatecrash and personally I don't think anyone get much sympathy here for doing so.
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Can I get my Sax back?
 
I happened upon a wedding at a town hall at the weekend. I had just been taking some photos nearby as the bride and groom came out and I noticed that their 'official' photographer was either a friend or family member with a half decent compact. She was very well prepared though, she had a list of the main photos she wanted to take which she kept in her handbag which never left her arm as she took the photos :thinking:. There were only about 10 guests so it didn't take long for her to get her pictures done (in front of the car park with bins and lamp posts in the background). :nono:

I was very tempted to step in and volunteer to take some slightly better photos for them. I've never done a wedding before so there's no way I could promise a professional result but I can at least position the people correctly with nice backgrounds and coax them in to posing nicely. In the end I decided to resist. It was clearly a VERY low budget wedding and the B&G seemed very happy just to be called man and wife so I left them to it.
 
:lol: Hehe...don't think you were even more than a twinkle in your old man's eye back then.....were you ?:D
 
rgrebby said:
I filmed a wedding as a job over the weekend and noticed there were a lot of high quality glass. Made me wonder if every one of them had actually been invited.
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That’s probably because a lot more people these days own SLR cameras and a wedding is the kind of event that people want to get nice pictures at.

Personally I think purposely crashing a wedding whether it be to get free food and booze or to get photographs is out of order and rude. If I was that desperate to get wedding pictures for a portfolio or something I would much rather approach a photographer and as to do a couple of weddings as an assistant for free than to just walk into a wedding univited.
 
Rather interestingly, there were three weddings on successive days in the hotel where we are currently staying. On the day of the first one, we had just got back from site and were sitting in the sun with a beer when the B&G and bridesmaids came out for a photoshoot. The light was lovely, especially with the walls of the hotel acting as a giant softbox. I was itching to whip out the camera and take a few shots, but didn't have the confidence to do so. Later, talking to the 'tog, I mentioned that and he said that I should have, as he wouldn't have minded. Oh well, an opportunity lost.
 
I recently got married at Piazza Campidoglio in Rome.

There were many tourists wanting to take pictures and attend the ceremony.

We had our own photographer but there were also other freelance photographers who took pictures and by the time we had come out of the 15 minute ceremony they were already selling framed and printed pictures from when we arrived.

The quality of the freelance pictures easily match that of the booked photgrapher although our photographer then took other shots around Rome.
 
We were at a wedding the other week as guests and there was a guy who I thought was with the official togs, out on the terrace where we all were, walking around taking pictures. He even came up to my sister-in-law and asked her to pose with her ice cream for him.

He wasn't with the official togs and he wasn't a guest either......

Where we were was a public venue with a public terrace

ETA: - oo, when I got married, I've just remembered that there were various neighbours in our road and then at the church snapping away :lol:
 
frank said:
37 years ago this month although not a photographer but 2 guys with a accordion and a saxaphone tried to gatecrash my wedding saying they were booked by the elderly caretaker of the hall. Quite a argument started between myself who had booked the band (mates of mine) and the 2 gatecrashers, caretaker did not know them. My best man chased me off and he and a few friends took these 2 guys out the back and gave them a bit of a hard time...cough cough! for spoiling the wedding reception relieved them of their instruments and threw them into the Water of Leith (a large river in Edinburgh) which ran behind the hall and wrecked them.

Gatecrashing a wedding could cost you your gear if you pick the wrong one to gatecrash and personally I don't think anyone get much sympathy here for doing so.
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hehe highland justice...do not mess :bang: :woot:

I wouldn't dream of crashing a wedding.
if there is something going on as I walk passed though I'd snap. When i prague I saw this bride having her pic taken by a pro (350D was the pro kit) and I though I'd grab a voyeuristic snap

wack61 said:
when I got married in 1985 there were 4 old ladies at the back of the church, apparently it was their saturday outing every week, they just loved the wedding ceremonies, i've seen the bride and groom coming out of the church near where I live a few times and i'd love to have the nerve to grab a couple of shots but I never have..
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friend of mine got married in a small church in wales...4-5 old local lasses did the same thing.
the fact was that they were more of less unofficially invited or at least expected as there was no choir...we were ignorant of church music and they filled the place with some nice singing. everyone wins.
 
Jimmy_Lemon said:
If it was in a public park or something like that and I had my camera with me I would no doubt put the 70-200 on and stand a little way back and take a few shots, but then I take photos of anything that moves (and plenty that doesnt). But I wouldn't intentionally set out to go find a wedding to crash.
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Totally agreed. In a public place many peeps will take photos.
Now stepping into the church or reception is a bit different :nuts:
 
Marcel said:
That's actually quite interesting.
How does that fare with celebrity weddings covered in a huge security detail to protect the OK/Hello deals?
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They just get heavy! :bat:

The Royal Wedding of Charles and Camilla was, by necessity a civil wedding so the law applied. They got round it by filling the entire venue with Armed Forces and saying the Heath and Safety Laws prevented them letting anyone else in. The Chairman of Brent Council was apparently furious at their property being used in such a manner.
 
Isn't gatecrashing a wedding to take pictures of people with whom you have no connection whatsoever just a step above being a peeping tom?
 
AliB said:
Nope, I'm aware of the Public Order Act but I was referring to good old plain burglary as defined by Section 9 (1) of the Theft Act 1968 states that:

‘A person is guilty of burglary if:

a) he enters any building or part of a building as a trespasser and with an intent to commit any such offence as is mentioned in subsection (2) below; or

b) having entered any building or part of a building as a trespasser he steals or attempts to steal anything in the building or that part of it or inflicts or attempts to inflict on any person therein any grievous bodily harm.

Section 9(2) states:

‘The offences referred to in subsection (1) (a) above are offences of stealing anything in the building or part of a building in question, of inflicting on any person therein any grievous bodily harm or raping any person therein and of doing unlawful damage to the building or anything therein.

It's quite clear that if someone enters a wedding without an invitation and helps themselves to food and drink then they do commit the act of theft while on the premesis and since they are trespassing it's burglary Section 9.1.a. :)

As for public access Under the 1994 Marriage Act, marriages held in approved civil venues must be "solemnised in premises with open doors" and the public "must have unfettered access to witness the marriage and make objections". Once the ceremony is concluded then the access ceases to be granted. So again anyone attending the reception in order to steal, it's still going to be 9.1.a

Up to 7 years. :)
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Actually I'm not sure this would apply, in practice it means taking goods without consent, at a wedding the food is being given away to the guests, I would think by pretending to be a guest it would come under obtaining goods by deception, or something similar, rather than theft?
 
If someone had gatecrashed my wedding to take photo's they would have got an extremely hard time.... however if I was in public I wouldn't have minded the odd snap being taken
 
swanseamale47 said:
Actually I'm not sure this would apply, in practice it means taking goods without consent, at a wedding the food is being given away to the guests, I would think by pretending to be a guest it would come under obtaining goods by deception, or something similar, rather than theft?
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Taking goods without consent IS theft :D
Theft Act states

"A person shall be guilty of theft if they dishonestly approriate property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving them of it."

The food belongs to the people who bought it and the distribution of it is implicit by invitation.The dishonesty is still covered by the Theft Act. The mens rea, i.e. The guilty or culpable state of mind would be covered especially if the dressed up for the occasion. Shows that they planned to do it. :)

I agree it would be a difficult one to push through especially if you read sentencing guidelines but the law would technically permit a prosecution for burglary.;)
 
AliB said:
Taking goods without consent IS theft :D
Theft Act states

"A person shall be guilty of theft if they dishonestly approriate property belonging to another with the intention of permanently depriving them of it."

The food belongs to the people who bought it and the distribution of it is implicit by invitation.The dishonesty is still covered by the Theft Act. The mens rea, i.e. The guilty or culpable state of mind would be covered especially if the dressed up for the occasion. Shows that they planned to do it. :)

I agree it would be a difficult one to push through especially if you read sentencing guidelines but the law would technically permit a prosecution for burglary.;)
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But they arn't taking it without consent, they are deciving the B+G into giving it to them.
Either way it would be very wrong.
 
you can practice your running skills as the best man and groom come to complain then later ask you for cheap wedding photos to save money on the official tog
 
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