Use of social media at my wedding!!

There is a post that's just been put up sort of regarding this. There are a lot of couples having "unplugged" weddings recently. This often refers to just parts of the wedding, but I'm sure you could extend it to the whole day. Just politely mention this either in your invitations or something on the day (I'm using my OOS) and I'm sure that at least most of your guests will understand.

For wording just google "unplugged wedding" and you'll bring up lots of ideas and suggestions

I wrote it in my order of service. I was having my reception a few days after the wedding ceremony and wanted everyone to see us for the first time. So I put something like "please refrain from posting photographs on social media until after the reception, thank you"

i had no problems ?

Same here! we are also banning videos. we want people to enjoy themselves - not worry that an embarrassing dance video will end up on youtube. its something i feel really strongly about. of course we are happy to have pictures taken, but dont want them splayed all over facebook.

We have mentioned it on our wedding website and will also have it mentioned in our order of the day/on a sign near the entrance. We've simply said that we'd like for our day to remain private, shared only with those who have been invited to celebrate with us, so please refrain from posting any photos on social media.

I don't think you're odd at all for not wanting it. There is absolutely no way that I want guests aimlessly taking photos all day and posting them on FB.

I personally think the emergence of guest photos almost immediately following the wedding day ruins the magic a little it too. I've paid for an incredible photographer to be there, I want the anticipation of awaiting the professional shots and seeing the whole story unfold for the first time. I don't want the first representations of my day to be scattered snap shots or blurred photos of the back of my head. That may be the photographer in me though ?

I am with you on this and am also wondering about how to do it/word it with my guests. A girl I know on facebook got married in the summer and her and her wedding were plastered all over facebook by attending guests before they would have sat down for food! I really don't want that on my day. I want my evening guests to see me first in person not facebook. I wasn't sure whether to have a 'quirky' yet firm sign somewhere in the entrance?

This is the similar post I mentioned:

https://www.hitched.co.uk/chat/forums/t/484873.aspx

If you google "unplugged wedding" you should find a post by offbeat bride that covers this quite well, but there are a lot of ideas out there to help you out

Thanks for your comments, it's actually been really positive in helping me remember, it's our day, and if people are offended or upset then there's nothing I can do about that, but no way am I compromising. I totally agree that I wouldn't want people seeing all our hardwork and planning before we'd had chance to enjoy it ourselves. I remember a pic of a bride and groom walking back down the aisle, and I just felt sick thinking, wow I bet that I true has been posted before they even made it out the church. I have spent the afternoon finishing my invites and have just added a simple paragraph saying, We respectfully ask guests to refrain from posting pictures of our wedding on social media sites until we have shared the professional photographs. And I am really happy with them. I am also going to insert a mention in the order of service, along same lines, nicely worded but making sure the message is clear.

There was loads of wording, I googled asking guests not to use social media...

I also don't want our guests glued to a phone etc when we are getting married. This is what I am putting on invites and order of service,

take what you like from it.

i hope it helps :-)

Photographs and social media

We really want all of our guests to be fully present during our ceromeny​​, therefor we are kindly asking

that everyone turns off thier camares and phones during ​this part of our special day.

It would also be greatly appreciated, if you could ​refrain from uploading any pictures you may take throughout

the rest of the day up onto social media sites.

If you would like to share any special moments you have​ captured with us and other guests,

then please download our Wedpics app, available for Iphone and Android users.

Thank you.​

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The point is that for friends that can't get to the wedding, YOU want to be the first to say, "this was my dress" etc etc, not for them to say, "Yes, I saw that on FB"

Peter

We asked people not to post pics on FB and everyone respected it, the only problem is it's killing me having only seen a handful of pics x

I went to a wedding last year and there was a note on the invitation that said something like 'we respectfully ask that no pictures from our big day are posted on social media before we have had the opportunity to share our own with absent friends and family who are unable to attend' or something similar. We were happy to oblige

We included an information card in our invitations, which had this line in: "please feel free to take photos, however we kindly request that you refrain from putting them on social media. Thank you"

(my friends and family know the social media rules about me- social worker!- but OH's family don't, so we put that in. The regristrar is also going to ask people not to take photos during the ceremony at the start of it all too)