Wedding and portrait photographers are always devising ways to get subjects to feel comfortable in front of the lens—but one photographer’s method to do just that has been getting a lot of attention on TikTok. Myriam Menard, a wedding and elopement photographer at Crémeaux Photo, recently shared one of her go-to posing tricks for getting genuine smiles: pretend to be drunk.

The shoot seen in the video was an engagement session in Sint Maarten with a real couple—though both are also professional models. Menard is based in Montreal, Canada, but regularly travels as an adventure wedding and elopement photographer. She describes her work as photojournalistic, with a cinematic, warm aesthetic.

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In the video (below), Menard uses one of her failsafe posing tips and tells the couple to “walk down as if you were super drunk.” The video shows the couple stumbling down a hill while holding hands. But, the photos that result don’t look much like intoxication, instead showing the couple laughing and holding hands together.

The video has been viewed over 16 million times and generated more than 1.4 million likes on TikTok and over 1,000 comments. The second video showing the results (below) received even more comments and over 826,000 likes. In a later post, she called the trick “an old posing hack that never fails.” Several commenters added that their photographer had used the same posing prompt.

In an interview with Insider, Menard said that making her clients feel comfortable is key to having a good shoot. The photographer said that she likes to capture real moments, rather than just posing her couples, but these posing tips really work.

“I truly want them to escape their mind,” she explained. “Their bodies then tend to relax and in photography, this is wished for since the camera captures all the details, the energy of a posture, of a gesture, so I take care to show people in their most relaxed form despite their nervousness to have their picture taken.

“Everyone’s awkward in front of the camera,” she went on to say. “I just wanna make them forget that they’re here for a shoot, so they’re kind of just getting loose and having fun.”