Are slideshows lame?

IMHO, slideshows take too long, people aren't gonna wait around to see different photos. Print them and display them in a nice way. Example; I'm doing a rustic picnic e-party, so we're doing a clothes line of photos clipped in large frames and setting them up around the area.

Slideshows are usually played at funerals in my area........... I wouldn't sit and watch them because they remind me of a funeral but I've seen then done at rehearsal dinners and someone narrates the pictures of the bride and groom and there are usually embarrassing childhood photos. That is okay, but I wouldn't want to watch one on loop at a wedding reception.

We did it on loop by the bar there was no announcement just playing as people ordered drinks

Nobody watches bride and groom slide shows besides their parents. Sorry, but they really are about as interesting as any random "last summer's vacation to Wherever, USA" slide show. Remember, people are celebrating the marriage of the two adults named on the invitation -- they are not invested in what those two people looked like in diapers, when their two front teeth were missing, Christmas at six years old, the junior prom, etc., etc., etc. Whether it's on repeat or synchronized, ...just skip it.

And by the way, thank the WW grammar/spelling police. If you listen and learn, you'll look smarter in the real world. Nothing kills your paper image more rapidly than an elementary error in spelling or grammar.

Following because I'm debating this one too. FH is pretty set on one, I'm on the fence. I like what you did @Mrs. Tullock

I feel like they are usually cheesy and I roll my eyes a little when I see them. I'd prefer framed photos or a collage photo on display somewhere over a slideshow.

No- they suck.

No we aren't the police- but proper grammar and spelling matter. It helps us understand you and you also sound less ridiculous. And it makes tasks like- oh gee I don't know- editing your RSVPs and invitations a whole hell of a lot easier.

I've been to a wedding where they had an ongoing slideshow of photos guests took and used their Instagram hashtag on. I thought that was cool. Everybody got excited when photos they took showed up on the big screen. My sister and her husband did one of those childhood photos slideshows at the rehearsal dinner. It was just kind of on in the background while people ate. I didn't hear anybody bash it, but the only people who really seemed to love it were family members.

Maybe the bridal shower? If you do it at the reception just have them playing. No music and don't ask people to stop and watch.

IMO slideshows are fine if they're being used as part of the ambience. Having to stop and give your full attention is just annoying, especially if it's before dinner is served. Talk about hangry!

I think you walk a fine line with slideshows. I've been to weddings that had them that were tacky and long, but I was also at a wedding where it was short, sweet and even brought tears to my eyes. I think it's all in the length and pictures included. All I remember from the tacky one was a picture of the bride in college before she met the groom at a party with her best friend sticking their tongues out to show off a tongue ring. The cute slideshow included photos of the couple with their friends and alone together throughout their relationship.

I think when they are on in the background and you're not forcing your guests to watch it, it's fine.

We're doing a slide show set up in the bar, so people can watch on their own. I've sat through some long ones and it's awful.

@Maggie G, I like your name lol!

OP, personally I don't like slideshows at weddings. If you really want photos displayed, print some out and put them somewhere guests can choose whether they want to look at them.

I just heard from a guest how much she loved the slideshow at a brides wedding she just went to. BUT it was of the photos being taken at the wedding only.

I'm not a fan of slideshows at a wedding. I was at a wedding on Sunday and it was overkill!

One whole song with pictures of the bride growing up, one whole song with pictures of the groom growing up, and then another whole song with pictures of the couple during their courtship. With an average of songs being 3 minutes long, it was excessive and not necessary, but rather boring and cheesy.

I like the idea of framed photos or a collage on display for guests to view at their leisure.

I think that's a great idea. I appreciate photos so much so for me it's a must.

Weddings I've been to had them and guest all gathered to watch and the one who didn't well they just didn't but I think it's a fun idea.

If you're having A unisex bridal shower than do it there but if you feel like it'll take too much time at wedding than make it into a 3 minute story slideshow.

Do what your heart wants. GL

My nephew and his wife did a slideshow 20 years ago when they got married--back then it was new and different. Theirs was also short. It was sort of bittersweet for my dad, my sisters and I and our kids--my mom was already deceased and seeing pictures of her with my nephew as a child sort of got us choked up. However, that was my family, so it was interesting to me. But if I was a guest at a wedding of someone I wasn't related to, I'd probably be bored.

And yeah, they do them a lot here at funeral homes during viewings.

I love slideshows! The last couple of weddings that I have went to had brief slide shows (maybe a song and a half worth of pictures) they played the slideshow during the meal it was very cute, all the guests seemed to love it everyone was laughing or gushing over the pictures. Will be doing one at my wedding next year (:

We are doing one but we're doing ours as people come in for the ceremony. I think it'll give people something to do while they wait for the ceremony to start. And of course music will be playing as well. I would never do one where you stop the reception and everyone's focus is on it. To me it's kinda awkward that way.