Cell phones at the wedding

Some people have a sign which politely asks guests to refrain from using their phones and/or taking photographs during the ceremony. My husband and I chose not to do this, but our officiant did make an announcement to that effect before our ceremony commenced.

You could have your officiant make an announcement

This one was hard for me bc I didn't want my guests feeling like I was telling them what to do but at the same time I don't want phone's everywhere in my wedding pictures. Not to mention people don't have much common decency when it comes to their phones anymore so I will just put a sign that says (politely) to please turn their phones off during the ceremony. At the reception I will be a lot more lenient.

The host can ask all guest to either turn their phone off or put on silent while the ceremony is taking place.

We’re having an unplugged ceremony. We put this on our programs, and the officiant is making a reminder announcement before the ceremony starts.

We will be having our officiant make an announcement about no phones/cameras before the ceremony starts.

My officiant will be announcing no cell phone usage at the begining of the ceremony. I've also seen people put signs out.

Our officiant made a statement before the ceremony started to put phones on silent and turn off flash. That literally didn't help at all. I should have done an unplugged ceremony but whatever.

Our officiant made an announcement. We had a sign by our programs, and we included it in our programs. Our parents also told family who we knew ALWAYS have their cameras with them. We had no issues and no one used a phone/camera.

Not gonna lie, I'm a little (lot) concerned with your force choke comment. Bit aggressive.

Have your officiant make an announcement, and PLEASE don't kill anyone on your wedding day, for the love of god.

Our officiant made an announcement and our program asked guests to refrain from using cell phones during the ceremony

View Quoted Comment This, also if you have a wedding website you can post it there. I do understand you don't want to tell your guests what they can and can't do, but at the same time that is literally what your photographer is for. I wouldn't tell them they can't use their phone at the reception because that's kind of overkill, but they can put it away for an hour during the ceremony.

Our officiant is making an announcement. He said it has worked 100% of the time in his experience and that most people ignore/don't notice the signs the couple puts out.

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It was clearly a joke. Star Wars reference.

View Quoted Comment Not being aggressive. Just don't want to be going through the vows exchange or unity ceremony only for someone's phone to interrupt the whole thing. I won't kill the person, but I will give them the dirtiest look possible. But if someone upsets my bride, all bets are off and so are the gloves.

Yeah we’re definitely making a sign, or announcement, or something because I went to a wedding last year and you couldn’t even see the bride with all the phones out.
I’d be so pissed.

We made an insert that went in our invitations that said "Welcome to our unplugged wedding", and then our officiant made an announcement before he started the ceremony. Not a single phone was out the entire day.

We are putting a sign up that it is an unplugged ceremony.

Just be straight forward. Please no phones during ceremony. Simple as that. It's your day not theirs so don't worry about hurting feelings. I'm going to allow it because I believe there are apps to share photos and I'd love everyone's shots.