Am I the only one that doesn't understand wedding pictures of inanimate objects?

Maggie0829

jenna8984 said:

carliealissa said:

I love them.  To me, those are what are the MOST representative of the wedding.  All my real life memories, especially from childhood, are of little moments in time; specific details.  For example, my great grandmother died when I was 4.  I don't remember HER, but I can clearly remember the stairs to her apartment, and a snowglobe she owned.

To me those "detail" photos are like capturing and preserving a memory and that's what makes them so beautiful.

The wedding pictures I don't understand and want to completely skip are all the posed ones of various arrangements of family members standing in a group.  Who on earth wants or cares about those?

And I would totally take a picture of my mailbox, if it were cute.  It's just part of a clump of four standard mailboxes.  I wish I could have a cute mailbox.

Wait- what? So after your grandma passes away you'd rather have pictures of your hair clip than a nice one of you two standing together smiling?!

This.  And if you have a good photographer these posed pictures won't look stiff but rather very natural and pretty.

But then again, fuck grandma, I want picks of my garter!!

Inkdancer

Maggie0829 said:

jenna8984 said:

carliealissa said:

I love them.  To me, those are what are the MOST representative of the wedding.  All my real life memories, especially from childhood, are of little moments in time; specific details.  For example, my great grandmother died when I was 4.  I don't remember HER, but I can clearly remember the stairs to her apartment, and a snowglobe she owned.

To me those "detail" photos are like capturing and preserving a memory and that's what makes them so beautiful.

The wedding pictures I don't understand and want to completely skip are all the posed ones of various arrangements of family members standing in a group.  Who on earth wants or cares about those?

And I would totally take a picture of my mailbox, if it were cute.  It's just part of a clump of four standard mailboxes.  I wish I could have a cute mailbox.

Wait- what? So after your grandma passes away you'd rather have pictures of your hair clip than a nice one of you two standing together smiling?!

This.  And if you have a good photographer these posed pictures won't look stiff but rather very natural and pretty.

But then again, fuck grandma, I want picks of my garter!!

I actually agree with this poster. Of course I want pictures with my grandpa. But I don't need pics with grandpa, pics with cousins, pics with cousins and grandpa, pics with my parents, pics with my half-sis, pics with parents and half-sis, pics with parents and cousins...

Let's get a couple of nice one-on-ones and then a group shot and be done with it!

carliealissa

Erm.. I'd love a photo of my grandma and I standing together smiling.  I have probably a hundred and I'm sure will have another at the wedding.  However, I'm thinking of many people  I know who have those multiple photo frames on their wall, where they have inserted 6-8 photographs of the EXACT SAME SCENE at the front of the church or wherever, and the photos are all exactly the same, except in one Aunt Susie and Uncle Bob are there in place of two other relatives, etc. 

Candid looking photographs are great, maybe one or two group photos, but no I don't want to pose for a half hour so every single configuration of both of our families can stand together and be represented.  Also, it sucks as a relative/guest standing around waiting your turn to stand in the said obligatory group photo!  That either a)nobody will ever care about or look at again, or worse b)they are going to hang all 20 versions on their wall!

MollyandD

I love pictures, and I want all of them. I want pictures of the people, and I want pictures of the random details. It's not like you have to choose and can't easily have both.

hellohkb

I'm not a fan of 9,000 detail photos. I may want one or two. But I agree, they seem a bit pointless to me.

Fairyjen1

jenna8984 said:

carliealissa said:

I love them.  To me, those are what are the MOST representative of the wedding.  All my real life memories, especially from childhood, are of little moments in time; specific details.  For example, my great grandmother died when I was 4.  I don't remember HER, but I can clearly remember the stairs to her apartment, and a snowglobe she owned.

To me those "detail" photos are like capturing and preserving a memory and that's what makes them so beautiful.

The wedding pictures I don't understand and want to completely skip are all the posed ones of various arrangements of family members standing in a group.  Who on earth wants or cares about those?

And I would totally take a picture of my mailbox, if it were cute.  It's just part of a clump of four standard mailboxes.  I wish I could have a cute mailbox.

Wait- what? So after your grandma passes away you'd rather have pictures of your hair clip than a nice one of you two standing together smiling?!

Does one exclude the other? Can't you have a nice picture of you and your grandma smiling AND also a picture of your hair clip? I don't think she meant she didn't want any of her grandma, just that she liked pictures of objects too. 

I think I would like some detail pictures, but I'm only having 18 guests so even if we do every configuration of a family shot, there should still be some time for pictures of objects. One thing Disney is known for is it's attention to detail and I'm going to want to remember them. 

sunset30

I'm not a fan of the object pictures either. The thing that makes the day special is celebrating your commitment with your new husband or wife, and the people closest to you in your life. When I look back at my photos, I focus on the ones of us during the ceremony, and smiling, laughing, dancing during the reception of my husband and me and our family and friends - not a bunch of pictures of the dress hanging in some doorway (which you can see in any picture I'm in), the bouquet, rings, centerpieces, shoes, or jewelry. 

countrygirl061513

I had my photographer take pictures of the little details, like my dress hanging with my boots, our wedding bands in my bouquet, close ups of the centerpieces at the reception etc. I didn't get any of them printed but they are in a collage in my wedding album that I have made in Shutterfly.

wrigleyville

sunset30 said:

I'm not a fan of the object pictures either. The thing that makes the day special is celebrating your commitment with your new husband or wife, and the people closest to you in your life. When I look back at my photos, I focus on the ones of us during the ceremony, and smiling, laughing, dancing during the reception of my husband and me and our family and friends - not a bunch of pictures of the dress hanging in some doorway (which you can see in any picture I'm in), the bouquet, rings, centerpieces, shoes, or jewelry. 

For you, yes, but some of the details I worked hard on made the day special too.

For example, I really liked a close-up shot of my bouquet. I would have given almost anything to have my grandmother with us, but she passed, so I attached her favorite brooch to my bouquet. My photographer took a picture of it while I was getting ready, and I didn't even notice until we saw the proofs. I was so grateful and touched I started crying.

Also, my photographer got a great, artistic shot of the cupcakes on the dessert table. I love stuff like that.

The detail pictures were maybe 5% of our overall pictures; it's not like I have oodles of pictures of my shoes. Plus, we don't have them framed. Of course the framed pictures are going to be family/friends. It's just nice to have those other memories too.

Also, I'm extremely grateful for brides who have detail shots (and post them/blog them) because they help with wedding planning in general. I bookmarked lots of hair combs, headbands, and jewelry that would have been hard to see in all of the normal, distant shots. So thank goodness for detail shots.

vh2014

I was a wedding photographer for years... I am having 5 pictures taken after the ceremony.... maybe 6 if I left one out.  I know exactly what posed group pictures I want.  For example: No need to do his dad and my parents separately... we just want the one of all of our parents with us.  So I get the group shots with the same backdrop... but everyone asks for a million of them so as a photographer you take them.  Then all brides buy the same basic 5 or 6 anyway.... 

As for the detail shots... while you may love one and print it for your wall, the goal is really to put them in the collage style albums. I've used several as backdrops for other pictures or as accents to help tell the story.  We always shot with 2 photographers and one had the job of catching all the details and photos of things that are going on in the background while the bride and groom are doing other things. So instead of having a plain black page with the getting ready shots, you put the bride's dress across the backdrop fade it out a bit and then overlay the 4 or 5 pics that she wants there.  Not sure about the open makeup bag,,, but maybe they had a plan for that too... Taking pictures of stuff the venue already had... ooops... but would rather do that than miss the special candle that she spent 2 months looking for just the right one.   

VulgarGirl

There's one picture from my friend's wedding she thought was ridiculous for her photographer to take but loves now. It's all of our shoes, the brides and her maids, all together in a circle, with the bride's in the middle. She says all our shoes reflect our personalities very well and the picture looks pretty cool.

I think detail stuff can be over done, but I still like some of it. I want one of my dress and FI's suit together on hangers. I dunno why, but I think that'd look very cool. Kind of over the rings on the heel thing, I've just seen it so many times I'm kind of eh about it now.

And I'm not a huge fan of posed pictures. Never really have been. I prefer snapshots. We'll probably do a few posed and then move on. All that standing still does not work well for me.

DaisyMaeMommy

carliealissa said:

I love them.  To me, those are what are the MOST representative of the wedding.  All my real life memories, especially from childhood, are of little moments in time; specific details.  For example, my great grandmother died when I was 4.  I don't remember HER, but I can clearly remember the stairs to her apartment, and a snowglobe she owned.

To me those "detail" photos are like capturing and preserving a memory and that's what makes them so beautiful.

The wedding pictures I don't understand and want to completely skip are all the posed ones of various arrangements of family members standing in a group.  Who on earth wants or cares about those?

And I would totally take a picture of my mailbox, if it were cute.  It's just part of a clump of four standard mailboxes.  I wish I could have a cute mailbox.

ME. I care about those!

I lost my Great-Grandmother in 09 from pancreatic cancer. I would give anything to have pictures taken with her on my wedding day, even if they looked completely posed!

starbright2013

Not a fan of detail pictures! The only one I've ever really liked - at my sister's wedding I was the MOH and the groom's brother was the best man. They had coke in glass bottles as a signature drink. At one point before our speeches, our notes were next to each other on the table with our cokes above the papers. The photographer got a really cute photo of that (cokes and speeches) but that's really the only detail photo I've ever liked.

Posed photos - also not a fan. A few, that's fine, but I want pictures that show everyone's personalities! I want the moments captured, not just the people and things. 

Totally understand brides who want the details though! It probably is nice to see your hard work come to life. 

CaliMel11

I like having a mix of both. For me, it's really nice to have the detail shots, since we really did not have time to look at everything while at the reception. So I can look at it all and be really happy with how it turned out.
She also took really nice ones with our rings, which I love as well. They did have us do the posed family shots, and I'm super grateful because my family has pretty much zero "nice" photos of us all.
I'm extremely excited to get prints of the family ones and give them to everyone because my family tends to take horrible photos of people sleeping, or goofy ones because we all are horrible at knowing how to pose.
I don't want a whole album of flower photos, but I don't want a whole one of just posed ones either.

sarah_goodrum

I'm a scrapbooker and having those little detail shots added so much extra to my pages. I even made a wedding scrapbook for my grandmother that had her wedding, her 2 daughters' (my mom and aunt) weddings, my own and my cousins' weddings and used (or made) detail shots from all of them, just as a little extra touch.