Unplugged ceremony and/or reception?

Adults, judging by the overwhelming popularity of this movement, do not know what to do, and in many cases do need babysitting.

I changed my mind about this. You never know what special moment a guest might snap!

We asked for an unplugged ceremony. I'm glad we did, even though not everyone complied. And I'm glad I have a couple photos they took, but I'm more glad I wasn't looking at a sea of phones. You can always ask one person to secretly snap a few, but at least you'll know you won't have EVERYONE with their devices up. I have to vote in favor.

We tried for an unplugged ceremony, but some of the guests didn't care and had their phones out the entire time anyways. A couple even had their pro quality cameras out! It was rather annoying. What could we do though?

We will have an unplugged ceremony. I will have one of my friends taking pictures with MY phone though...LOL. I just personally don't want my photos all over social media until I am ready to post. Also...people with phones out taking photos at weddings are definitely annoying.

Will have to agree to disagree, Celia. I don't care if it's for 5 seconds, I think it's extremely narcissistic to tell grown adults they're not allowed to think about anything but you.

ETA: as for adults needing babysitting, somehow I think if this thread was about dress codes or limiting Uncle John's access to the bar due to his drinking problem, you'd feel differently.

After I found out this was a thing I played with the idea of doing an unplugged ceremony, but this thread has convinced me.

Even in church ceremonies people stand up and

Block and go into the aisle to take pics; it's unruly. I feel that I wouldn't want my ceremony pics ruined, especially since we're having a small wedding with 50 guests, I think it would make it worse. You can't really count on individuals to be considerate all on their own when it comes to this type of situation.

The best photos I have seen from previous weddings are from phones because u can usually catch the true personality of the person.I plan on doing the I SPY list at my reception

My cousin got married on Friday and she asked the guests to put any devices away for just the ceremony, which I completely get. However, people still had their phones snapping photos as we walked down the aisle, so you probably won't get 100% effectiveness. I definitely wouldn't do an unplugged reception as you'll get hundreds of more photos capturing all of the moments your photographer can't !

I didn't specifically request it- I would have wanted it- and honestly I couldn't even tell you if someone had a cell phone out- I wasn't paying ANY attention.

The one thing I 100% noticed?

My photographer on the floor taking pictures of us (yes- sitting- on the floor) at some point- and above her- an Uncle from the other side of the family- with a camera as big - if not bigger than my photographers- CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK CLICK.

I wanted to turn and tell him to sit down. having TWO photographers RIGHT THERE was immensely distracting- I'm not going to lie.

But there is absolutely no way you're going to get anyone on board with an unplugged reception. You're insane.

I have no problems telling a guest to sit down if the couple has asked me to make that announcement and I suddenly find one standing next to me or behind me (yes...those 'adults' think it's just fine). To me it's narcissistic to think you are so WILDLY important and your wishes are SO noble that the wishes of couple you're there to celebrate mean nothing to you. Because you're special.

If the couple doesn't care? I ignore it all, but I can tell you, it's terribly distracting and annoying to your pros.

I'm considering an unplugged ceremony because I don't want pictures of people on their phones. I've never been to a wedding where people are in the aisles getting in the way of the photographer, so I'm not worried about that. I just would hate to have phones in my ceremony pictures, and I have a hard time understanding why people would have phones out anyways.

However, the reception is a whole other story. I would be so sad if I didn't have any non-pro pics of my wedding. I want people to take pictures of the reception and take selfies with their friends. I don't know why you wouldn't want that.

@JoRocka lol WOW I don't think I needed to be called insane for asking about the idea. And for the record, the only part of the reception I was considering was the entrances and MAYBE the first dance, because like some other people said, I don't want people posting pics on social media before I even see it. I think adults do need a little encouragement sometimes to put down their darn devices because we are so hooked on them! And I don't think its too much to ask to have people put them down for 20 minutes during the ceremony, when they're coming to celebrate you getting married. Of course if its an emergency and you need to take a call from a babysitter or family member, I'd be completely fine with that.

I just got married and we did the unplugged ceremony, but not the reception and my photographers were THRILLED that we did that for the ceremony. My wedding was at an Aquarium with a huge floor to ceiling glass tank behind us during the ceremony, and having someone forget to turn off their flash would have been terrible for the very expensive professional pictures. I looked out at the guests briefly a few times during the ceremony and it was wonderful to see every single persons face looking back at me and not seeing cameras and phones and no huge awkward iPads! For the reception I wanted everyone to take pictures and post to social sites, but in my opinion, it was one of the best decisions that we made for the ceremony hands down. Professional pictures are not cheap, and our ceremony was short, so this way we made sure that the pros got all the pictures and angles that they wanted.