# Whiskey swigging bride wants photo killed **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 9, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212 "2004-04-09T19:30:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![htns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@htns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/htns)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/21 "2004-04-11T10:52:17Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Though I really can’t support the bride’s side of this all that strongly… Really the only thing she had to do so that photo didn’t end up being national news is not to do things that she doesn’t want photographed in a situation where there are obviously photographers present. What blushing bride? Judging by that pic, it’s more like drunken groom in wifey’s wedding gown. 😃 😃 😃 Also, the fact that she sued didn’t help her anonymity any. All that lawsuit did was bring even more attention to that wedding card. If she loses, it’ll be even worse. Very well, off to make a Priceless-type parody of that pic in Photoshop and circulate it on Kazaa Lite. (Just kidding…or am I? BUAHAHAHAHAhaha!!!) ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/22 "2004-04-11T11:59:56Z")
> [@harmless](#): > > [This one](http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/bridereport1.html) is kind of funny…has a police report to go along with it. 🙂 It’s from The Smoking Gun. > > And it just gets better! > Blushing brides. 😃 Nice mugshot! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Beauty\_Personified](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e480ec/32.png) [@Beauty\_Personified](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beauty_Personified)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/23 "2004-04-11T12:07:47Z")
> [@htns](#): > > Also, the fact that she sued didn’t help her anonymity any. All that lawsuit did was bring even more attention to that wedding card. If she loses, it’ll be even worse. Of course, she could just be short on cash (for booze and cigs), and looking for some easy money. I get the impression from the photograph that she’s not the type who really cares what other people think of her drinkin’ and smokin’. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/24 "2004-04-11T12:48:31Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Then isn’t the photo owned by Newsweek? Or the A.P.? And if the photo is being used on a card I don’t think it’ll fall under the journalist loophole. > > Though I really can’t support the bride’s side of this all that strongly… Really the only thing she had to do so that photo didn’t end up being national news is not to do things that she doesn’t want photographed in a situation where there are obviously photographers present. If Newsweek or AP didn’t choose to buy that particular photo, then no, they don’t own it, the photographer does. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/25 "2004-04-11T16:06:15Z")
> [@Beauty Personified](#): > > Of course, she could just be short on cash (for booze and cigs), and looking for some easy money. I get the impression from the photograph that she’s not the type who really cares what other people think of her drinkin’ and smokin’. 😉 That’s a lot to infer from one captured Kodak moment of her life. I certainly would not want the sum total of my existance judged by some long-ago snapshot. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2004, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/26 "2004-04-11T20:09:26Z")
> [@clayton\_e](#): > > Though I really can’t support the bride’s side of this all that strongly… Really the only thing she had to do so that photo didn’t end up being national news is not to do things that she doesn’t want photographed in a situation where there are obviously photographers present. That’s an amazing unsympathetic view. Unless you yourself have somehow managed to float through life without every having an unphotogenic moment. I think that a bride at her wedding has a reasonable expectation that anyone taking pictures will be well-intentioned towards her and will not be planning on using them for commercial intent. You may even be able to go further than that and make an argument that because weddings are typically an invitation-only affair, the bride has a stronger expectation of privacy than normal. This is why I’m puzzled by the role of the photographer – the article indicated that he was covering a news story. But it would take some major chutzpah to attend a wedding reception and take pictures if you weren’t invited or an official photographer. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/27 "2004-04-12T00:02:19Z")
It’s funny. When I first saw the title of this thread I thought of one of my mom’s wedding pictures. She’s stunning, young and vibrant, comically holding a cigar to her mouth and holding a beer in the other. She’s obviously posing for the photographer and it captures what I think is her having a blast on one of the happiest days of her life. It’s easily one of my favorite pictures of her. I look at this woman’s picture and think “yikes!” I can’t say I blame her. I’ve never seen anyone look so miserable on their wedding day. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212/28 "2004-04-12T05:17:37Z")
From **Larry Mudd** ’s link of links, the picture was taken in the church and appeared in Newsweek 20 years ago. > [@](#): > > The picture captured Mrs Hemphill at the church in her wedding dress, smoking a cigarette and drinking from a whiskey bottle as the bridesmaids attended to her". > … > The lawsuit says Mrs Hemphill "suspects that Portal will argue that Mrs Hemphill waived any right to privacy in the picture when it appeared in Newsweek more than 20 years ago. However, Mrs Hemphill did not know the picture would appear in the magazine until the day before it was released. I think the embarrasment is heightened by the fact that she was drinking whiskey _before_ the ceremony. > [@](#): > > The photo was taken 22 years ago while Hemphill was with her bridesmaids before her wedding. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whiskey-swigging-bride-wants-photo-killed/239212.md?page=1)