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Rather than adopt an ugly strong-arm tactic like dispatching a well-armed security team to disperse the swarming paparazzi with a hail of rubber bullets, the soon-to-be-married, privacy-obsessed Nicole Kidman tried a different strategy for dealing with her unofficial wedding photographers:

After staking out Kidman's harbourside Sydney house for most of the day, some 20 photographers heard her garage door start to rise and quickly armed themselves with motor-drive cameras.

But instead of a shot of the bride and groom before the wedding day, the paparazzi were met by two women carrying a case of beer and water bottles.

Written on the case of 24 bottles of "Victoria Bitter" beer was a note: "Enjoy!, Nicole and Keith."

And it seemed the gesture worked, at least temporarily, with the paparazzi thanking their host and enjoying the beer — a universal greeting of friendship in Australia.

The grateful paparazzi joyfully clicked together their beer bottles, offered a toast to the generous Kidman, and quickly downed their liquid peace offering, tragically trusting of the actress's motives. Within minutes, the score of photographers collapsed in a unconscious heap at the foot of Kidman's driveway, where they were easily collected by her team of bodyguards and later drowned in the star's Olympic-sized swimming pool. There would be no unauthorized photos of Australia's leading lady that day.