Lights, Camera.....hey! Put that phone down and pay attention!

I'm having an unplugged ceremony. I understand people are excited and wanna take pics but that's what we paid a very expensive photographer to do. I dont want all our beautiful ceremony pictures to have people holding their phones up. It takes away the feeling of being there in the moment when all you see are a field of phones staring at you.

Nope! We did unplugged. We wanted nice pics of our guests. And nobody could post their crappy pics of us on social.

I want my wedding to be unplugged. I do not want my wedding pictures to come back with guests phones in the background. I also don’t want anyone posting pictures because FH and I still work together and I have not transferred yet. How do I tell guests not to post pictures or videos?

We are having unplugged ceremony as well! In addition to not having people holding their phones in pro photos & being present in the moment, I also don’t want guests posting photos of our ceremony, before we post professional shots that we want to share. I feel like the couple should have the right to announce their wedding first. We will have unplugged sign at the ceremony, we explained this on our wedding website & we will also have officiant say it before ceremony start. So hopefully it works lol

I don't mind. But I know alot of people are asking for unplugged weddings because it would be really distracting.

I originally wanted an unplugged wedding but I just had a conversation with someone recently married and she wasn't able to get any pictures because there was a mishap with the photographer and all of her pictures were ruined. The only pictures captured were those caught by family with their phones. So I'm rethinking the unplugged thing.

I would rather they not. We're already paying a photographer and sometimes guests don't take the most flattering photos. If you're at the wedding you should just enjoy it.

A small, tiny part of me wants to do an unplugged wedding because of the reasons you listed, but honestly I love random candids (even the ugly ones 😂). My wedding guests are funny and their comments in the background of their videos are probably going to make me laugh. And I also would have evidence of them enjoying the wedding as well.

Most of my family is so old they have flip phones. The younger ones I'd worry a little bit about like Snapchat ect but I figure my wedding is 65 people and if majority are old enough to not have smart phones then the younger ones will be discouraged.
Overall I'd lean towards unplugged, it's just weird to have all the phones out

We are definitely doing an unplugged. For one main reason: We don't want people to get in the way of the professional photographers. We have a specific hashtag setup for people to post to, so hopefully that will reign people in from posting all over social media. Of course, you can't monitor people with everything they do, but hopefully they can be respectful about how much they post.

We are having an unplugged ceremony but not reception, I think it'd be impossible to ask people to stay off their phones for that. I don't want our pro photos to come back with people on their phones in the background! I thought it was pretty common knowledge not to post pictures of the bride and groom before they did but I don't know now haha. I have to decide whether or not it bothers me, but I'm not so sure it does.

I honestly wouldn't care. Though I feel like our guests are pretty savvy to politeness, and knowing where and when it's okay to get up and take pictures. Our wedding had no note of being unplugged, we didn't have to tell people to let the photographer do his job, and in all honesty, during the ceremony I only saw maybe one or two pictures being taken by guests. Most guests were so wrapped up in paying attention anyway that it wasn't an issue. But hey, if someone wanted to post pics from the back of the room, go for it. We didn't care. Worrying about what other people were doing was just way too nit-picky for me personally. It wasn't worth my stress.

We are doing unplugged. We're paying for a photographer so there is no need for 100 people to all be taking pics at the same time. Years ago no one had phones (or good ones at least lol) so it was nice and everyone could enjoy and be in the moment. Just because we have the means now adays it doesn't mean we need to use it.

I didn't really ask guests not to but now that my wedding has come and gone I guess I have mixzed feelings about it. I didn't want people all on their phones during my wedding, a lot of them were taking pics and videos during the ceremony and uploaded them to FB,IG and Snapchat. I got on Facebook the next morning and had a million pics and videos..which wasn't the wporst because some people got really good pics/videos. I just wish we could've uploaded our own pics first.

We are doing unplugged for the ceremony. Going to ask the officiant to mention this at the beginning before anyone walks down the aisle.

My wedding ceremony will be unplugged. I think
its such an intimate moment. That doesn’t need to be shared with the social media world. Cocktail hour on. Everyone can post their lives away.

Not during the ceremony. The cocktail hour and reception are free game. I think this is becoming the standard because professional photographers and videographers need to do their jobs for the ceremony and it's more important to be present in the moment for the actual wedding.

Nope, don't want it - completely unplugged ceremony.

I am paying good money for a fantastic photographer (and possibly videographer if it happens to be in the budget in the end) to capture the day for us. The last thing I want are phone screens covering what could've been the perfect shot of FH and I from our PAID photographer. Also, for us, if we wanted to invite people that would be watching on IG/FB Live then we would've done so. It is our special day to celebrate and enjoy with our family and friends, not for the world of nosey social media critics to pick apart. Now, for the party at the reception, I'm not too picky about. We do have a hashtag for those posts.

We are fine with people posting whenever. It won't diminish the awesomeness of the day. We have both a photographer and videographer and I'm still looking forward to the random pictures that people will post.

View Quoted Comment I like that idea.