Fake wedding exit

My cousin did an early exit. Just make sure it's announced (like put it on your wedding website or something) to increase the odds of having as many guests as you can.

I feel photos like this are meant to be spontaneous, most of the best ones are! It just feels..not sincere to do a fake one. You won't have a genuine expression of being excited about leaving for the night.

We aren't doing a fake exit with our guests, but the videographer did suggest that we have him film is leaving by ourselves early in the night. He was looking forward to capturing a moment between the two of us (before too much champagne).

The problem with a fake wedding exit is that your guests will probably really leave in large numbers after you do it.

My sister did this and it worked out really well for her. She did it early in the evening and only mentioned it to some guests (she did it away from the reception). It was fun and her pictures are beautiful!

Good suggestions !!

Personally I've never understood the point of an 'exit'. I plan on just going to our room and passing out and going on the honeymoon a week later.

So you're going to pretend to leave then come back just to get a picture? If I was a guest I'd be like wtf? And probably leave. We're also doing a sparkler exit. We are just doing it somewhat early because 1. Enough guests will still be there for it and 2. I'm just gonna wanna leave so I can do the ditty with my new husband and sleep!

So basically I'd just suggest an earlier exit and whoever is still there gets to be in the picture!

We're getting our 'exit' pictures as we walk down the aisle together - we're handing out bubbles as people come in to the ceremony. less awkward than a fake exit, same general idea.

I think the only problem with this is people will leave right after. It'll die down by them. Plus it's weird to walk out and then come back.

I like Niki's idea!

I had a different idea of what a fake exit meant: we're getting married at a hotel, and of course will be spending the night there. There's no need for us to leave the building in a car, but I feel awkward about having our guests see us off to the elevator. It just seems too obvious about what we are doing next. I briefly considered the idea of exiting and going for a drive, and then we sneak back into the hotel to go up to our room. My fiance thought that was too silly. I've never actually heard of a fake exit where the couple pretended to leave for pictures, though.

We didn't do an exit. When 12:00PM came around, people just started leaving. That's how I wanted it because I was beat!

I have noticed that early exits often prompt people to leave early... they are already outside so they figure why not leave

I went to a wedding where they did this and it was super weird/awkward. They had everyone go outside with sparklers and the B&G came out and did a rehearsed kiss with a big dip while the photographer snapped away, then got into a vintage car and were driven away...then all the guests were ushered back inside. It 100% killed the mood of the wedding and kinda left me like ??? because it was so clear that they'd interrupted everyone for a photo op.

I love the idea of doing a formal ceremony exit, though! A former colleague of mine got batons and tied beautiful multicolored ribbons around them for guests to wave during their exit, and just the iPhone photos I saw on FB were cool!

I actually didn't hire a photographer because when I asked her about reception time she pushed for the fake exit. She told me to get it out of the way! I find it very very strange, to want to get the end of the reception "out of the way". I would rather have I -phone pictures then interrupt dancing and talking for a photo...

And I keep thinking people might leave early because it will feel like they should....

I couldn't do it. I would look back at the pictures and know they were fake.

We're doing a sparkler exit 15 minutes before the end of the night, but my coordinator said we'll probably have to go back in to get our things and say some goodbyes. Does that count as a fake exit?

I wouldn't do a fake exit. I would feel silly asking my guests to take part in it and the pictures would be too "staged" for me. I like natural spontaneous photos the best.

Niki nailed it. A fake exit seems wierd. But then I hate all those fake 'dip the bride' photos too.....