Can i tell guest Don't post photos on social media

Have "unplugged events" asking people not to take pictures during the events, mention it on your wedding website that it is important to you, don't use a hashtag, include a note on the invitation, put a sign up or make an announcement.

You could have a sign that says something like "please respect our special day by not posting any pictures on social networking"

An announcement is more effective than a sign. Just be clear about your wishes

View Quoted Comment I agree have a completely unplugged wedding might be the best option. You can tell guests till you're blue in the face not to post it and you will still find some who will.

View Quoted Comment This is cool but we actually don't have a photographer at our reception...so will be nice people take photos i just don't want it on social media.

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What Katie said, you can tell people all you want but someone will still post on socials

View Quoted Comment Yeah I totally get it...i mean can you request photos to be taken down anonymously anyway?
I thought about turning my FB off for the day so I don't get tags but I did put the feature on that allow my approval first.

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You could totally turn on the approval first! that might be the best thing to do - but have an announcement made at your events

Are you not wanting to be tagged in the photos? Are you also asking no one post pictures of themselves/with their partner/with a group of friends at the venue?

Agreed with others - you can make a sign and an announcement, but people are going to people. There are definitely ways to ensure you're not associated (through tagging) with the pictures, though.

View Quoted Comment Really don't want alot of people to see the photos. Our is no ones business that we didn't invite. Alot of nosey people.

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Okay. How many people are you inviting to your wedding? Are there certain uninvited people you don't want to see pictures? What are your concerns if these nosey people do see pictures - contacting you to complain about not being invited? Complaining to others?

You can certainly untag yourself in anything your guests tag you in.

You can ask that people don’t post pictures, but there is nothing you can do to enforce it - especially if you’re wanting people to take photos on their phones for your personal use.

For our minimony we simply had the officiant announce that we didn't want anyone posting pictures to social media until we ourselves did and no one had a problem with it! & yes, everyone did listen.

Yes you absolutely can! This is exactly what we did, and we put it on our wedding website. Our officiant made and announcement before the start of the ceremony as well. We didn’t care at all if people took photos of themselves and posted it online, but we just addressed that we didn’t want any photos of the bride and groom posted online.

View Quoted Comment I completely understand this! Not to mention, social media is for the most part a ridiculous bullying platform where people will say stuff that they would never actually say to your face in real life. Part of the reason why we decided to not have any one post photos of us on social media is because when we were getting ideas for a wedding we were YouTubing different things and comments from total strangers under the videos about people’s wedding days were absolutely outrageous. I know it’s easy for people to say “what do you care what others think “, but to see nasty comments about one of the best days of someone’s life really does hit and I’m sure those people are hurt by the comments. And not to mention the people that you didn’t invite that were upset about it Are typically the ones that will look at the photo and judge the whole day out of envy or jealousy. You have every single right to not want anything posted on social media. It’s the unfortunate culture that we live in in 2021