Something's wrong... (Score 1)

The photographer would indeed have owned the copyright the photograph itself if the couple had hired her to produce copies of photographs from the wedding. But I would assume that a couple would pay a photographer for the photographs themselves, not the copies, and therefor the copyright would belong to the -couple- and not the photographer, and the photographer would have to oblige to the couple's requests. It is not reasonable for a photographer to have the copyright over pictures they were hired to take, any more than it is reasonable for a programmer to have the copyright over the code he was hired to write...