How to politely ask ur guests to not post ur wedding pictures?

These are all great ideas. I too am torn on if it is polite to ask my guest to not take pictures. But on the other hand, I love how @Shelly C worded it for her guest.

It will be hard to get EVERYONE not to take pictures.

I personally didn't care if people took & posted pictures because Iknew lots of people who weren't invited wanted to see.

BUT...since that is not what you want to do, I suggest having an outlet for those who will sneak pictures {because they will sneak in a few}

what I did do was create a username and password on walgreens.com and made up photo cards with the info on it, and asked folks to upload an album there for us to see and print the pictures we liked. We have about 10 albums of our wedding on the site.

It was nice for me because some people got GREAT shots that my photographer didn't get. We have some really good candid moments of all of our wedding and the guests.

You could use a cell phone signal blocker. (j/k!!)

I know how you feel. I would never trust people to read signs or portions of the invites, mainly because I know my group and they either will glance over it without really reading or just ignore it. The best thing to do, I would say, is talk to those you think will be the biggest offenders and tell them WHY you ask this - there are more people expecting invites than can be invited, and you don't want to cause any uneccessary hurt feelings. Tell them they may take pictures, but you will provide an alternative way to share them with only invited guests.

Perhaps the best way to tell them is on a facebook message, so that you can address all facebook users at the same time.

If there's room in your budget, you could also hand out disposable cameras to guests and ask them to only use those cameras. You can then develop the film and control what gets shared.

We are using http://weddingturtle.com/ and asking that is where guests post photos. We are also asking if they will please not post them on facebook.

Thank you every one.

I know people will take pictures and I don't have a problem with that. I just don't want them to do a live feed of the event on social media sites. I will try as much as I can, and I know I can't please every guest or have everyone comply to my request.

But wouldn't your picture turn out so much nicer if you didn't have almost every guest hold up a camera/phone while you and your groom are standing in front of the altar?!

Thanks again!

You used to be able to set up a feature to approve all tags and photos on facebook. I think you still can, an option instead of deactivating it. Nothing gets posted to your profile until you approve it.

I am also a very private person and I loathe facebook and refuse to open an account on it. It would irritate the crap out of me if anyone was posting pics of my ceremony out there. I used one of the freebie links for Vistaprint and had a poster made for an unplugged wedding. It politely asks all guest to turn off all devices and refrain from taking photos.

I liked the unplugged wedding card..so cute...but yes just let them know just like you said it...email them or post it on your website...

I think its hard to get EVERYONE to agree to an unplugged wedding. Especially the "camera whores" or the uncle who fancies himself a photographer. I like the idea of giving them a place to upload their photos like M.S.P said. that way they have an outlet. Kinda like a win win.

I love the idea of an unplugged ceremony. Makes the officiant's job and the photographer's job and the videographer's job so much easier, too.

I've officiated many weddings where the guests are more intent on getting pics instead of paying attention to the ceremony. At one, I couldn't figure out at first why a man was holding an iPad in front of his face (blocking his view). I eventually figured out he was either taking pics or taping the ceremony. Of course, pics taken from the front of all the guests had an iPad as his face!

I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask this of your guests, not just because you're private but because some of your guests may not want to be plasted all over facebook.

I think the best route is to give people another outlet... like a private site. You can use something like lensmob.com to get a private email address for your wedding and have people send photos there.

Love the unplugged sign!! i have been struggling w/how to ask people without it seeming rude. i'm having the same issue because we're having a small wedding with only about 35 people, so obviously not everyone we love can be there and we don't want to rub it in by overloading Facebook with photos. I may choose to post one or two special photos after to share with everyone else. thanks for the ideas!!

These are great ideas! I will definitely add it to my program and also a note near my guest book. I just attended a wedding and was mortified to see a guest walking around recording with his phone even going up to get a closer view of the bride and groom exchanging vows! They had not requested that he do this of course. later the bride said she was very distracted DURING the ceremony wondering why he was doing this and if he was posting live to social media!