Unless you’ve been living under a rock or in Hansee Hall, the last two weeks have been busy ones on campus with the cherry blossoms in full bloom. If you were able to fight your way through the mob of tourists, people with glazed-over eyes staring blankly ahead and children that are specifically three years old, you may have found your way to a spot in the quad without people jockeying for elbow room to take a picture that has been taken thousands of times before. Unfortunately for you, the space you have discovered is squarely in the way of a couple taking wedding photos.

Colin Dipak is a wedding photographer who has felt incredibly bothered by these pesky onlookers enjoying nature. “You’re in my shot!” He yells.

“It’s just so weird,” says bride-to-be Lauren Chen. “I guess everybody had the same idea as us! We’ve seen the cherry blossoms on half of all UW posters that have ever existed, and thought it would be a good spot to take our wedding photos. There’s normally not much in the way of people out in the quad at any other point in the year, I really have no idea how we got this unlucky!”

Dipak felt upset when we asked him about the students enjoying the trees. “I don’t ask for much. Is it really that hard to clear out of a tourist attraction at 1PM on a Saturday? You know what, screw it. I can edit them out in post.” Dipak did not edit them out in post.

It looks like you, dear reader, will be a part of a beautiful spring wedding!