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Imagine this wedding with a contemporary 'cinematic' style ha ... what on earth were they thinking!

Omg, So Many Things Wrong With This Wedding! Just 'Wtf Is Going On?'

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Umm...what?!? Really? The videographer backed up a lot slower than I would have. Who thinks indoor fireworks is a good idea?

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Now this is the kind of wedding Chris Harding would LOVE !!! ;)

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Hi John

Did anyone mention who did this wedding ... It might have been me but the shaky footage is not my style and you should know by now that I don't book ethnic weddings anyway!

I did a Bogen one last weekend though! The first bit all went to plan until they decided to start pre-dinner drinks early. My wife and I were doing both video and stills and do you know how hard it is to get group shots done when the guys alternative is a big jug of beer?? Later during the evening the guys decided that slugging a tankard of beer down wasn't getting the required liquid into their bodies fast enough so they resorted to downing the beer straight from the 1.5 litre jug ...most dropped the jug after emptying it so it smashed on the floor!! Lovely bunch!! During the speeches the groom also decided to show(and tell) Dad how much he loved him ..while Dad was attempting to do his speech of course!! I left everything in the video !!

Chris

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Chris,
You sure you didn't cover this? I thought you went out of your way to do the indoor fireworks so you could get the "special footage" of the venue burning to the ground while the bride beats the stuffing out of the groom for being a complete idiot for hiring the indoor fireworks.
Honestly I had to stop watching after about a minute I couldn't take anymore and Chris, you know I'm being sarcastic. Can't help it. This morning its very cold here quite a bit below 0 F and getting colder every hour so I need someone to needle since my wife actually went into her office.

O|O
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Hey Don

I had a close one a year ago at a Greek wedding where the candles on 10' high stands had material similar to a veil wrapped around the stand like a skirt. Yep the one caught fire and caused a bit of chaos!

My assistant caught it all on camera but I left it out of the DVD!!

Our son lives in Montreal and said it was -30 last week ... We are basking in sunshine close to 90F and higher!!

Wanna move to Australia???

Chris

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Heh, I couldn't get my wife to move to the next block BUT one of my sons is going to Sydney in the next couple of weeks to visit his good friend who moved there for work. He said he can't wait to go just to get warm.

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Thx for that link, that just made my day, I"m still laughing out loud while I type this.

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and the guy starts having a conversation with the firework pointed to the floor! I'd love to see the look on a wedding coordinators face if that happened here

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The wedding co-ordinator clearly went full on retard that day ...

I'm gobsmacked not even one person looked worried about fireworks being set off indoors ??? what country was that wedding in, anybody know?

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@ Don -

If you stopped after the first minute, you probably missed the Roman Candle!!! That was "special"...

Fountains was bad enough, but something that SHOOTS EXPLODING FIREBALLS??? Wow... not sure there's "hazard pay" enough to shoot something like that!!

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This reminds me... I need to check up on insurance coverage.

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If more weddings were like that I would consider shooting weddings! Sure beats American weddings! Wonderful!

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No offense but I'm kind of taken back by the pompous tone most of you are taking. Not sure if you've spent your lives living in a safety bubbles and are truly clueless about the potential danger here but I can assure you there was next to no risk of "burning the place down" with those fireworks being set off indoors. Granted it was dumb to burn the dress but just because their culture is different doesn't mean you are better than them.

My only concern here would be taking a roman candle shot to the eye. Which well, guess you would have to be pretty unlucky or pretty unaware of whats going on to not duck out of the way.

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Haha WHAT!?

Pompous?

How?

What they're doing in that marquee / room is a FIRE & SAFETY risk. Simple!

Someone could have seriously been injured !!

Can't believe you can't see that and think we're arrogant ...

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That room has a cement floor with a solid flat wooden beam ceiling. There was very little fire risk here. Ive been inappropriately setting off fireworks my entire life for fun with friends. Even if you had those fountains directly pointed on the ceiling those beams wouldn't catch fire themselves. You would literally have to start a bonfire in the middle of the floor to burn that place down.

Would I do that at my wedding? No - too smokey and I dont want to take a firework to the face on my wedding day. But life threatening? No way.

Just sayin its different cultures. I dont think its right to make fun of the things people value as important in their lives. Im pretty sure fireworks are a pretty big deal in certain cultures around the world.

Edit: take a look at this for instance. there are festivals globally where people literally dance in fireworks


Also in spain

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it's dangerous & stupid - no matter where it's done

The most exciting and dangerous firework festival in the world: Yan Shui Feng Pao
Spectators have been wounded by rocketing fireworks while standing too close to the erupting hive. However, the festival is still held, despite moves to ban it.

History: 1875, the deity Guan Gong visited a man in a dream and bade the villagers to parade his statue around the town and bombard it with firecrackers. The villagers followed Guan Gong's instructions and the epidemic ceased. To prevent its return, the tradition has been repeated most years since

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I do respect every culture out there but it doesn't mean some habits can be plain stupid and dangerous, especially according to our standards, a good example would also be the bullrunning in Pamplona where people can and do get seriously injured, what they consider as a major festivity every year can look idiotic and life threatening to many others. In above wedding my only concern would be anyone being hit in the eye when such a fireworks explodes which could result in loosing your eyesight, there where also little kids running around there as well which made it even more ridiculous, I couldn"t stop laughing at first but it was mainly because of the sheer stupidity of what I was witnessing

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Natural selection at it's finest James ....

If people want to be idiots, so be it.

And i'm not being arrogant ... far from it. I guess in the west the agenda of health and safety is shoved down our throats from a young age so much that it's kind of embedded into our minds now.

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Stupidity has no bounds

nor does it have any bias

Anyone why isn't a complete idiot knows that fire, is something you only use indoors when it's in a FIREplace, and things like fireworks are never meant to be used indoors, and it states such info on every commercially sold firework.

lighting a roman candle indoors has no excuse, it's nothing to do with culture, it's just plain stupid.

"let's light this stick that shoots white hot flaming balls in a confined space where it can bounce around"

Stupid. It's the only course being served

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This thread is a criticism of the subjects in the video and of the family and I find it somewhat odd and out of place in this forum. The video is obviously homemade and of no relevance to what we normally discuss here. What is the point? Who is being helped?

Poorer people typically have little to no experience with planning a wedding or similar event and likely have no one with any expertise to turn to for help. These folks obviously were not well off. Calling them names (idiots) and judging them in this forum seems weird to me.

James P, you are right and I agree with you 100%.

Do we have nothing better to do than to pick apart some less fortunate folks on their wedding day?

What always bothers me most about these situations is the judgementalism and snobbery and how quickly people will pile on.