Photography 📷 Issues

I TOTALLY get what you mean about social media posts! I would never tell people to not take their phones or anything crazy, but I do plan on asking them to keep all photos of my wedding private and not post on social media unless it’s like a random selfie of them. I’m a super private person too and I just really find want things posted on Facebook as there are also many ppl who aren’t invited. I’m probably just going to inform people through my wedding website. Good luck

Have your officiant remind people to put their phones away for the ceremony. (Some still won't.) But if enough do, the photographer can work around them.

You can also assign a BP member to, uh, deal with those who may keep getting in the way.

Also, if you don't have a hashtag, it'll make it harder for people to find random wedding pictures of you.

View Quoted Comment Thanks for your input.

We had an unplugged wedding. We had a sign and had our officiant announced right before the ceremony to put away devices, and we still had two people (that we know of) who went against our wishes. One of them, unfortunately, was my wife’s uncle who had an aisle seat and an iPhone 4. I’m not judging his outdated electronics, but come on dude. Your phone isn’t even taking decent enough quality photos for it to be worth it. We still got plenty of great pictures, but there are a few that were ruined by him basically holding his phone out into the aisle.

For our minimony I don't really care, but for our big wedding I definitely want no phones allowed during the ceremony. Let my photographers capture the pictures!

Most weddings I have been to certainly in the last couple of years always have the celebrant remind everyone to just enjoy the moment- the photographer will capture everything so put the phones down. From what I’ve seen everyone is happy to comply!

We had an unplugged ceremony. Our officiant made the announcement before anyone walked down the aisle. Neither of our moms were going to hear the announcement since it was made before they were seated. My mother-in-law thought she was going to take photos throughout the ceremony, but my sister-in-law (her step-daughter) told her right beforehand that under no circumstances were photos to be taken by guests during the ceremony. I handled telling my mom.

I realize now why people even have unplugged weddings! Because when I walked down the aisle it was a bit overwhelming seeing so many cameras pointed at me

View Quoted Comment Whew that does indeed sound very overwhelming.

After daughter was a BM in a wedding where two women with cameras stepped into the aisle and blocked the photographer's shots of the B and her dad walking down the aisle, she was dead set on an unplugged wedding. They had a sign, the officiant reminded people to put their phones/cameras/etc. away before the processional began, the groomsmen reminded guests as they sat them for the ceremony, but MOST important the B&G got the word out ahead of time. It was on their website, and after seeing photos with a zillion phones at a cousin's wedding on FOB's side, daughter asked me to reach out and make sure that did NOT happen at her wedding. I sent an email and explained that D & SIL did not want any photos taken during their ceremony (and that her photographer's package included free downloads of everything he took so no one really "needed" their own photos because they'd have access to the pro pictures). One family member pushed back -- hard -- in a "reply all" response with, "who's going to stop me????" Yikes.... I just replied all right back that since it was what the B&G wanted, we assumed anyone who loved and cared for them would comply.... Separately, the FOG (who is a semi-professional photographer himself and was not bringing his camera) piped in and said he'd personally shove anyone out of the way if he had to.... Anyway, D & SIL received 1100+ photos from their photographer and there wasn't a single phone or camera visible in any of the ceremony pics, so we think it worked! Good luck!

I'm 100% pro unplugged ceremony unless the B&G want otherwise. Photographers are expensive and we paid for one so stay tf out of their way lmao. I've heard so many stories of people getting in the photographers way!


Also because I don't want phones in the pictures. I'd also like people to be in the moment, even if they don't really care about the ceremony/vows, they can ignore their phone for 15 minutes and pretend to pay attention 😂
Definitely planning to have both a sign and have my officiant (my aunt) remind people. I plan on her actually pausing after asking people to silence their phones and keep them away during the ceremony to give people time to pull out their phone and silence it. Probably say something like "at this juncture, please switch your phones to silent and pocket them for the remainder of the ceremony so the photographer may do her job. Phones are welcome back after the ceremony exit. I'll give everyone a few moments to do so." Then a pause before we begin.

We had an unplugged ceremony and everyone respected it.