WEDDING PICTURES [#16573]

November 7, 2021

QUESTION:

Is it improper for a couple to give a picture of them to their parents so that their parents can have a picture of their married children hanging on their wall? I think it’s immodest, but I’m being told that I’m acting extreme about this.

ANSWER:

Compared to the level of the generation today, it is extreme – but refraining from it is still a good and proper thing to do.
QUESTION
What is the Torah view about pictures of the couple in the Yichud room? The photographers will treat a newlywed frum couple as if we are not religious, making the chosson and kallah pose in all sorts of positions that are strange and inappropriate, Rachmana Litzlan. Is this permitted according to Halachah or is it only an issue of Hashkafah?
ANSWER
Halachically, there is leniency about this because the photographer is busy with doing his job. However, it certainly going entirely against the spirit of the law of Yiddishkeit.