Tell me about your unplugged ceremony.

We plan on having an unplugged ceremony as well. We are paying good money for a photographer and I want her to be able to get any shots she feels she needs and not have someone in her way and ruining the shot. The wording for your sign is super cute! We plan on posting a sign as well. And we are going to ask our officiant to make an announcement also. I did also make a note on our wedding website. But my concern is the same as yours, that someone will think the "rule" doesn't apply to them. Hopefully everyone can respect our wishes, but if not, there's really nothing we can do about it at that point. Fingers crossed though!

We had a sign, and our officiant made an announcement before the ceremony.


Everyone respected it and listened... except for one cousin, who I literally hadn’t met until that day! I was so beyond pissed. She’s my mom’s first cousin, but my mom hasn’t seen her in decades and she was only there because we invited my grandfather’s brother (her father) and he is 90 years old so he brought her to escort him basically.

No idea why she wanted pics of our ceremony? Since, during the ceremony, she hadn’t even been introduced to me yet. Seeing me down the aisle was literally the first time she ever laid eyes on me. Why did she need photos of someone she doesn’t know...? She never sent them to us either.

I wouldn’t have been as mad if she also wasn’t seated RIGHT in front of the videographer’s tripod, so her phone was just sticking up right in front of that angle of our video. I edited the video myself and literally spent 90 minutes (I’m not exaggerating) just editing out her stupid phone. That's 45x the amount of time I've ever spent talking to her, to this day.

I’m not bitter I swear....... 😅

Lol, other than that it went well though. Everyone else respected it, our photographers got great shots of our ceremony, and it was really fun looking into the audience and seeing everyone's faces instead of their devices.

So I went to a wedding that had a sign for unplugged ceremony but honestly some people kind of disregarded it or didn't see it I don't know.
For mine, we just had the officiant remind everyone to silence phones

We had an unplugged ceremony and everyone listed, except one guest with an aisle seat. I was livid and am still pretty bitter about it, but what can you do?

View Quoted Comment Omgg the lack of common sense!! She was right in front of the tripod and still didn’t thing to be considerate like oh maybe I’m in the way 😩. Loll that sucks! Sorry about that

View Quoted Comment Oh that’s a good one I didn’t even think about also asking to silence the phones

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Lol, it's ok, at least I was able to edit it out. The nerve just pisses me off. At least she wasn't in the aisle or something!

My FIL is notorious for taking his DSLR camera wherever he goes, so we asked him not to have it during the ceremony. We also personally asked my grandmother not to bring her iPad, because she LOVES taking pictures with it. Luckily, they both agreed and everything was fine. I was going to make signs and tell my officiant to make an announcement, but completely forgot LOL! And honestly, I didn't even notice if people had their phones out. I had it on our website that it was an unplugged ceremony and during the reception, I had a bunch of people come up to ask if they can take out their phones lol oops! I stressed WAY too much beforehand about people taking pictures and having their phones or tablets out, but the day of, I was so chill and so focused on just getting married that I honestly didn't care at that point. I was just happy that everyone could make it and that I was marrying the man of my dreams!

Our officiant will make an announcement before we all make our grand entrances. I haven't been to a wedding in a loooonnngggg time so I don't know if people will respect our wishes, but here's to hoping!

We had a sign at the entrance and our officiant made an announcement. Honestly I was surprised that no one had their phone out (about 150 people) since I’ve definitely been at weddings with unplugged signs and still have seen people taking pics.
One idea I had to combat this (which I never got to do because time ran out), was to put out a sign at the entrance saying if anyone wanted pics from the ceremony drop their email address and we’d send them out as soon as we got them (and arrange with our photographer to have some ceremony pics back in our sneak peek).

I completely forgot to have the officiant make the unplugged announcement. The photographer only caught one phone in the pictures though. Which is amazing since H’s co-worker took over 100 pics. Which she posted on Facebook before we’d even changed our relationship status.

I love your sign saying! I might steal it!

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That is so rude!! It's also one of my fears. So, in addition to the officiant announcing the "unplugged" ceremony, I'm going to also have him remind guests not to post our wedding on social media until we have had a chance to do so. That's no one's place to do but yours.

View Quoted Comment I didn’t know about it til weeks later when H happened to mention it. She tagged H but the last thing on my mind that day was Facebook! I was livid when I found out.

View Quoted Comment By all means feel free to use it!! Im not against ppl taking pics. I know my fh family will be butthurt, just dont take pics along the aisles where the photographer will be taking pics of us walking up & down the aisle.

My cousin wedding for the ceremony was unplugged & we respected her wishes & nobody pushed any boundaries they did as she asked..