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I'm not sure if this is in the right place so if it could be moved if needs be. I'm getting married in October and we want to stop our guests taking photographs and videos on the day and posting them on social media sites. We don't mind them taking photos but just don't want them posted up on sites until we've put our own up. What's the best way to go about doing this? Has anyone else come across this?
 
How about a polite request to that effect on the invites? It might not be fool proof but hopefully most people will understand and respect your wishes.
Congrats and good luck :)
 
Good luck with that one, Tim!

Perhaps you could put such a request on each invitation?

I think you are doing a Canute job though!
 
Hard one,apart from the advice from given,your going to trust your guests will respect your wishes :)
 
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I think it's a fairly reasonable request. If you make sure guests are told well in advance and reminded at some point, then chances are they will stick to it.
If you have ushers, advise them to courteously remind the first few people they see reaching for their phone and word will get around.
It should become self enforcing after than - if a guest then goes on to post a photo on social media then they should realise you will get to find out about it.


If you aren't confident in that approache, you could ensure that your wedding photographer is using a completely manual film SLR and then detonate an EMP.

Or, more realistically but possibly still not terribly legal, but a signal jammer would prevent people from uploading photos during the course of the day itself. ( -not that I'm condoning it)



I think it is a shame when a wedding takes places and hundreds if not thousands of bad photographs are unleashed onto the internet immediately afterwards.
 
welcome to today's world.

But if you don't look at them why care. The world at large wont even notice.
 
Get married somewhere with no mobile reception, and have a free bar. Whilst your guests are drunkenly berating the '3rd world' conditions, slink off and upload your photos.
 
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My daughter's getting married soon at a venue in Saddleworth, we've been to visit the place a few times and none of us ever get a signal because it's basically in the middle of nowhere, this actually unnerves me because I don't how I'm gonna cope on the day all day with no internet lol
 
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Elope, that will prevent guests taking photos.

It's what I plan to do, should I ever marry.
 
Me and my Wife did the exact same thing we asked no one to put pictures up until we put up our own and the same when we had our children. We just added it to invites or in person on baby visits, everyone obliged. The way we said it for wedding was please don't post a copy of your photos as we would like to see them first as the Bride and Groom and we have posted our own pictures of our special day that we are proud to have you apart of.
 
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