Unplugged ceremony

I'm having a sign and my officiant announce this at my wedding. This is not rude and just a simple request to your guest to be in the moment with you. There's a lot of photos online of people shoving an iPad into the walkaway or completely blocking the view for photographers. *cringe*

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Do you have a picture of your sign? I would love to see it! I was going to buy one on etsy but I'm looking for other options.

View Quoted Comment Kinda, so I got mine off Etsy through Weddingsdecorstudio and I love it! It’s such great quality. It’s larger than I thought, thick and heavy too. I want to add flowers like in the picture from the Etsy website but I’m not sure if I will or not because that’s just extra money going out and it looks great alone too.

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I don't have a picture of the actual sign, but here's the design I created using Canva! Short, sweet, and to the point. I just had it printed on white foam board from Vistaprint and it turned out great!

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I have to ask...how are you supposed to make this happen? Yes put a sign out, make an announcement, but as we all know people will do what they want when they want. So with this clause in your contract is your photographer going to stop taking pictures when they see a cell phone? Just seems like an odd clause since you can't control what other people do.

View Quoted Comment I didn’t think it was that odd lol. If your photographer is ahead of you trying to take photos as you walk down the aisle and you have guests shoving their phones into the aisle it interferes with their work. At the end of the day of course you can’t really control what people do. I’m not sure what the photographs process is for this. Give dirty looks until they stop? Shoo them? Lol I don’t know. But I understand the need for stating that people can’t have phones out

View Quoted Comment Oh yea I heard the same thing. I also attended a wedding where the ceremony was unplugged and the photographer ended up losing all the photos. The only photos that the couple had were at the reception when guests were allowed to take pictures. But they didn't have a single photo of the ceremony. It was ashame. But I think it definitely is a freak accident thing that barely ever happens. Im all for my guests taking video and photos. Like you said some of the best pictures are from guests. You have one professional photographer or maybe 2 but they can't capture everything. Some guests can catch things either from a different angle or just something the photographer didn't get because they were busy getting other photos.


With that being said, if you want an unplugged wedding have one. It's your wedding not your parents. You get to decide not your parents.