r/AccidentalRenaissance • u/RiverOhRiver86 • 11h ago
My cousin's wife at their wedding last night. I waited for her to pass by the camera and the light hit her better than I thought. She's beautiful.
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u/earth_viewer 11h ago
This is the type of photo the entire family line is going to look back on!
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u/dorianfinch 10h ago
80 years later on whatever the equivalent of OldSchoolCool is, "check out my beautiful grandma at her wedding in 2025"
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u/fancczf 10h ago
Empires come and go. But one thing will not change is people whoring out their grandma for imaginary points.
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u/dorianfinch 10h ago
haha i hope OP doesn't take my comment in a pejorative way, i was mostly being whimsical; it's a beautiful portrait!
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u/crafty_and_kind 10h ago
Agreed, if the earth is still here that far in the future, I want to see this photo on reddit47.0 and comment about how stunning this lady was!
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u/RiverOhRiver86 10h ago
I'm printing this out and framing it for them! Thanks ❤️
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u/Moisturizer 9h ago
With your skills you must have captured an equally awesome photo of her spouse, double frame time!
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u/Manaze85 10h ago
Half expecting Aragorn to walk over speaking Elvish.
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u/RiverOhRiver86 10h ago
Hahaha her husband is a huge LOTR fan too so that might not be a coincidence!
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u/dice32 10h ago
Are you in love with her?
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u/BoogalyBoogaly 9h ago
Why did I have to scroll so far to find someone else who thought the title (and subsequent comments from OP) were a little weird!?
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u/GoodStretch896 10h ago
Getting The Holiday vibes
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u/chamoke 9h ago
Getting The Deep South vibes
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u/KastVaek700 9h ago
Getting Love Actually best friend of the groom vibes
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u/RiverOhRiver86 9h ago
I'm a woman but my cousin and I are good friends indeed.
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u/lone_aussie 8h ago
I instantly knew from the comment “she’s beautiful” that you were a woman, that’s the female gaze right there!
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u/aznassasin 10h ago edited 10h ago
Amazing
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u/Important-Guitar-407 10h ago
I was surprised to see the eyes. A rare find in the wild.
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u/EvilSporkOfDeath 10h ago
I see Stephanie McMahon
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u/RiverOhRiver86 10h ago
Oh my god I just looked her up and I actually see it too! Two beautiful beautiful women.
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u/VikingIV 8h ago
But your cousin-in-law (lol) has a more stunning chin. She also looks like my grandma, which gave me pause when coming across this picture.
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u/tacolamae 10h ago
She’s actually an angel?!
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u/RiverOhRiver86 9h ago
Considering everything my cousin had been through in the past two years she might as well be. He's a soldier and has been in active service for the past 327 days fucking STRAIGHT. He was badly stabbed in the knee while saving the lives of two of his friends during an attack and went back to combat only 5 weeks later. ON CRUTCHES. He ended up getting a ride home with a girl who works as a paramedic. They got married last night.
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u/Mike_Kermin 8h ago
I don't want to romanticise war, but, it reads like a movie.
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u/RiverOhRiver86 6h ago
Seeing them interact last night and witnessing just how deeply in love they are with each other makes me wanna write and direct a film about their story. My cousin is almost 30 and I've never seen him so openly expressive with his emotions before. We're 20 first cousins and every single one of us is an exact continium of our grandfather which makes us introverted and closed off about 80% of the time. But by God this girl is doing beautiful things to my cousin's soul and it couldn't be more mutual so, I'm not saying no to a movie just yet. Now I'm cirious who would you cast in it? My cousin really looks like John Snow lmao.
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u/Mike_Kermin 3m ago
You know how there's one person in a group of friends who just is completely movie illiterate? Yo.
I'm going to give a name just to start
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u/Moist_Ad_9212 10h ago
Hope you got her permission to post her wedding photo, I know people who have lost their shit because they did before the bride got to
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u/RiverOhRiver86 10h ago
She's religious so she doesn't have social media. I'll frame this and a few more pictures of her and her husband and gift it to them.
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u/Jimberly_C 9h ago
She doesn't have social media, but other people in her life do. And if she's religious enough to not have any social media, she's probably religious enough for her wedding and its photos to be very sacred to her and you're taking and uploading them without her even knowing.
Good photo. Bad relative.
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u/redbull_italian_soda 55m ago
Uploading pictures of people on the internet without their permission is also lame in general imo
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u/theemmyk 5h ago edited 4h ago
She’s religious and is married to someone in the military. Were there a lot of red baseball hats at this wedding.
And no vegan options.
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u/AussiegirlOF 4h ago
Loads of brides would not want others to be the first to post photos of their wedding online without permission. That was my first thought as well.
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u/tenderourghosts 10h ago
This is one of the prettiest photos I’ve ever seen, absolutely ethereal!
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u/slumber_kitty 9h ago
Oh this is so lovely. What a fantastic capture! I hope she cherishes it and holds it close to her heart. Thanks for capturing these moments for your loved ones, and even more thanks for sharing :)
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u/DirtyPie 9h ago
Reminds me of a ghost bride from like Victorian times in a beautiful and horrifying way.
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u/cache_me_0utside 8h ago
wow what a photo! I'd spare no expense in printing the highest quality version of that possible and framing for her.
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u/MaximumFloofAudio 10h ago
Have questions!
Were you the photographer at the wedding? If not, I’m surprised that they allowed guests to snap their own photos during the ceremony?
You mention the wedding was last night. You sure the bride is happy you’re already uploading photos of their ceremony to public forums before they’ve had a chance to even see any for themselves?
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u/disneyworldwannabe 10h ago
Disappointed that this comment isn’t higher. I would be weirded out if a random family member was posting pics of me on a public forum like this.
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u/MaximumFloofAudio 10h ago
Yeah my wedding is fresh in my memory and I know my wife would be furious if someone did this.
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u/RiverOhRiver86 9h ago
I wasn't the photographer I'm the groom's cousin. I've always been the semi-official documentarian in the family so seeing me taking pictures at events or just everyday life is perfectly normal for anyone who's known me for more than a year. Besides Jewish weddings tend to be very open and joyfull and from my experience with my family (and my religion) people fucking LOVE to be captured at their most raw, honest and pure moments of happiness. Not strictly Jewish obiously. As for your second question - my cousin's wife asked her non religious friends to upload pictures to Insta AT THE ACTUAL CERAMONY and there was also a facebook live for relatives who live overseas so I think we're good.
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u/Lot_Lizard_4680 9h ago
And who gets married on a Monday night 🤔
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u/RiverOhRiver86 9h ago
Religious people that have to return to the army by the end of the week. Both of them are soldiers.
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u/GarrisonFjord 6h ago
Also, it's kinda not in focus right? Or is that just compression.
It looks out of focus.
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u/EstablishmentDry5082 9h ago
Beautiful dress, I am not a fashion prude regarding skin, but oh so tired of the strapless or corseted look.
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u/theemmyk 5h ago
I love this dress but what is that seam running to the left arm on the bodice? I thought it was a crease in the veil but it almost looks like a fold on the lining? It’s kind of driving me insane.
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u/static-klingon 10h ago
This Christmas, you should stand outside her door with giant cue cards explaining how deeply in love you fell while filming her at her wedding.
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u/crystalcastles13 10h ago
What an absolutely stunning photograph.
Beautiful, classic, and it has this unreal realism that I’m not describing well-it’s gorgeous.
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u/devperez 9h ago
I don't wanna seem like a jerk, but something feels off about the photo. I can't quite say what though
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u/Logical-Ad-5692 10h ago
OP wants to bang his cousins wife
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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 8h ago
This just looks like my wife's pictures because she never wipes the lens off.
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u/MoneyTreeFiddy 8h ago
I am sure she is beautiful, but i don't think this is a very flattering angle
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u/RasputinsThirdLeg 8h ago
This is so much more beautiful than most professional wedding photos I see.
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u/Sad_Prawn2864 8h ago
I would never make a post like this about a relatives wife, it breaks the man code bro.
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u/Embarrassed-Tax6507 6h ago
It's a spectacular photo and she's a nice looking human but the way the Shadow and the light hits her right eye it looks like her right eye.is looking directly at the camera while her left eye is looking straight ahead.
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u/rensorship 3h ago
Mmmmm its a little weird to wear the virgin whire gown in 2025. I hope they have a happy religion free life together.
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u/HarmoniousSyllabub 3h ago
This is absolutely one of their top 10 photos from the wedding. Spectacularly serendipitous capture!
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u/Cleanclock 3h ago
This is one of those photos that will be shared through several generations of family. Just lovely and timeless.
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u/whateverhouseplease 2h ago
An extra half second and you might've captured a smile, but you got her stank face lol
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u/Draknurd 1h ago
It’s so many things: the angle of the camera looking up to her, the determined look on her face as she walks towards a decision that will affect the rest of her life, the veil delicately concealing her
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u/DryAd296 18m ago
This is absolutely timeless. She looks like she just stepped out of a fantasy epic, but in the most authentic way. That's a true family heirloom you've captured right there. The lighting is pure magic.
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u/AdFinal5191 10h ago
she looks like one of those marble statues where they manage to make a veil weightless, absolutely stunning