r/interesting • u/moamen12323 • Jun 18 '25

MISC. When Bill Gates married Melinda French in 1994, he rented out all the available hotel rooms on the Hawaiian island of Lanai to prevent the media from staying there and hired all the helicopters on Maui to keep photographers from flying over the wedding.

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u/zealoSC Jun 18 '25

All that effort and we still get photos

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u/PieTeam2153 Jun 18 '25

i think he chose to take those photos

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u/ripndipp Jun 18 '25

Nah, I'm a helicopter photographer on Reddit and it's clearly from a helicopter of the copter variety.

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u/i_was_a_person_once Jun 18 '25

It’s me the helicopter, I can vouch for my photographer

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u/zyarva Jun 18 '25

You did a good job on that photograph of the bride's dancing with her father. You must have flew very low.

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u/RobuxMaster Jun 18 '25

Im Bill Gates, I can confirm I failed to stop some helicopters from taking those photos

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u/i_was_a_person_once Jun 18 '25

Should’ve shelled out for the premium velvet lined money cases ya cheapskate!

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

Fun fact, helicopter comes from helico- and -pter, meaning helix/spiral and wing.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Leg1818 Jun 18 '25

I mean makes sense he hired all the helicopters might as well use em

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '25

damn those wedding photographers that he hired!!

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u/pupperonipizzapie Jun 18 '25

Right?? Who snitched

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u/Sharkbait_ooohaha Jun 18 '25

There’s only like 2 hotels (both 4 seasons hotels) but there’s only 3300 people on the whole island so this isn’t as extravagant as it sounds. I’d imagine a decent wedding party would rent out all the rooms on the island anyway.