No photos or social media

If it is a civil ceremony at a venue then some people have a chalkboard outside the venue with it written in a poem style - have a google for some samples. Also at a venue wedding the registrar's are usually more than happy to make the announcement for you as part of their pre wedding "housekeeping" talk to the guests before you arrive.

Also make sure that you tell your suppliers as there have been instances reported on here where the hair dresser or MUA have posted their photos of you from the morning even before the ceremony.

Hey! There are signs you can buy on Etsy to politely ask not to take pictures if you search unplugged ceremony on there they should come up

Our celebrant is going to ask people at the start not to post anything to social media before we do

We have got this for our wedding day, not expensive and you can personalise. Nothing worse than people on their phones during your wedding! 🙄 https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/b07b6t9yhk/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_glt_fabc_8mm02dtrbbq01qta4qd1?_encoding=utf8&psc=1

Friends of ours included a little poem on their invites asking that nothing was put on social media.

We decided we didn’t want to ask people not to take photos during the ceremony so our photographer, videographer and registrar will then we can plead ignorance 😂🤣.


Don’t want the drama/politics of asking people not to.

Our minister made the request during his welcome. We also asked him to say that we would be making our official photos available for everyone who wanted to download them - we thought that knowing they could get professional photos just for the print costs might make people feel less like they had to take their own anyway!

We've put something in our invitations. From memory, it's something like "we wish to share our day with you, our specially invited guests, only. As such, please do not post about our wedding on social media". I'm hoping that the vast majority of our guests will have the emotional intelligence (given I don't even have the fact that I'm engaged on SM and my fiancé isn't on it at all) to realise that we are private people and just won't do it...!

My brother got married last year. He had the celebrant say at the very start no pictures on social media. That was last June and the only picture from his wedding on social media is the one his wife put up . I think this is s good idea and everyone respected their wishes. I'm going to do the same for our wedding. Then I'll decide later if I want to share like they did.

My brother is handing out lil cards to get guests as they enter, stating we'd rather not have any photos throughout the ceremony but they're OK to take photos at the reception. I have a photographer just for the ceremony as we wanted a really relaxed (natural) photos for the evening. And my brother is also main one on the evening for our gotta have pics such as cutting the cake and dances etc. Other than that. There's nothing guests can post on social media. Hope this helps, I've attached an image of our lil cards.
Best wishes

Our photographer brought this up in a meeting, as it isn't something we had considered. Then it occurred to us that quite a few of our guests have sensitive jobs and prefer not to be splashed all over social media.


We're not fans of having signs all over the place so we put it in our website FAQs and it will be reitterated as part of the housekeeping announcement before we arrive at our ceremony. We've said it is due to the jobs that many guests do and encouraged guests to share their photos on our website instead.

Our vicar will mention that only photos from the photographer during the service. And she said she does that for all weddings not just ours as she wants the bride to see faces not phones when she walks down the aisle

Hey we are having the celebrant say no pictures on social media or when I walk down the aisle. I've also seen signs saying 'Please don't post on social media until the Bride and Groom have had a chance to do so'