You may have a valid point. However, both sets of parents & friends should & must consider the feelings of those inside & on their way in. Most of the times they are in a very serious frame of mind & having cheering & photos being taken in front of their faces aren’t exactly what they hoped for before entering the Ohel or while davening inside.

Before gimmel Tamuz it wasn’t “a thing” for women to go regularly to the ohel.
Since women didn’t go, there was no need for a women’s entrance.
Something needs to be done so men and women are not squeezing past each other on the path, by the sinks, and at the coffee center. Please.

its unbelievable that someone can compare the ohel before 5754, when very few people went, to the ohel today. Since gimmul tammuz the ohel is the place for every yid to come and daven. Do you know that many frum yidden dont come to the ohel because it doesnt have a proper mechitza? this has deterred people from the rebbe, no less than all the crazy stuff. If you care for the rebbes kovod, a mechitza is vital.

see here this article – with the comments below it – which addresses this and other issues such as chossonim and kallahs not meeting altogether after the vort until the wedding.

https://anash.org/is-this-a-picture-you-would-send-to-the-rebbe/

The Rebbe designed the build of the Ohel, and didn’t find it necessary to have a Mechitza.
From the technical aspect, there is nowhere to put another entrance. There are Kevarim all around.

The tent is a place where people come to write their Pa”n or letter to The Rebbe, and it’s supposed to be a quite place for people to concentrate and do so. It is not a party hall.
Even when standing and waiting in the Tent, it blocks the way for people, and gets very loud.
If someone wants to celebrate at a place next to the Ohel, they can arrange in advance (or at the information desk) and they will provide a room designated for these purposes.

The shrieking is obviously wrong and particularly embarrassing and a chilul Lubavitch in front of the many yidden from all walks of life who witness this behavior and have never seen frume people behave this way and in our holiest of places, no less!

There is a specific media outlet that has made it completely mainstream to post publicly pictures of every single chosson and kallah together (as long as someone sends it to them).

We aren’t talking about spreading around a picture privately between family and friends (also wrong), rather publicly posting it on social media for everyone.

After a few years of this, it follows that people now think this is normal Lubavitch behavior.

The Rebbe was involved in constructing the Ohel and it’s layout. How can you even think of making changes to it?

Thanks for restating this. It has become so “normal” for chassan and kallah to be photographed together, that when a young couple does not want to take such photos, they are literally bullied in to doing so anyway.
Can we please go back to respecting the Rebbe’s instructions, especially right outside his ohel?

Also it says on there that chosson and kallah shouldn’t take pictures together

I think it’s beautiful that people greet the chosson and kallah, always brings warm feelings when I am there to witness it, what a simcha!

How difficult is it to make a separate entrance on the outside for men to enter and a cement wall at lease a few tafuchim high so there’s a proper mechitza? In the most common kivrei tzaddikim in Israel, this is commonplace. Does the ohel of our Rebbeim, the nasi hador, deserve less respect??

It is ironic that despite the Rebbe’s clear displeasure with chosson and kallah taking pictures together, it has become common that these days, the one time almost everyone ends up posing for a picture together is right outside the Rebbe’s Ohel!

?!הגם לכבוש את המלכה עמי בבית

Posing for pictures should not be done in the bais haChayim period. that is completely disrespectful

At the same time, I don’t see why the tent is inappropriate, for eidl behavior. People are actually happy for the simcha
Close to the Ohel, nope!
But why not in the tent, if behavior is appropriate?

I couldn’t agree more.
May i just add, those that are inside the Ohel & videoing while there are people are trying to pour out their hearts for their personal matzav.

The Ohel isn’t a tourist attraction. It’s a mokom kodosh!!!!!

I just want to add about the picture taking:

(from Eternal Joy, volume 2)

Taking Pictures Together

Rabbi Leibel Groner relates that the Rebbe also asked him to publicize his displeasure with the following:

It recently has become endemic that chassan and kallah come together after their engagement party for pictures. Moreover, they even take photographs together in a photo studio.

The Rebbe once told an individual during a private Yechidus:

In heaven they are ashamed of the fact … that chassan and kallah are photographed together before their wedding.