Social media and wedding photos

Re: Social media and wedding photos

• Maggie0829 member

  

  January 2014

  photokitty said:

  ktjanesmom is trying to say. I can also understand what others are saying.

  I think the issue here is not the taking of photos, but the posting of them. OP said she doesn't mind the photos being taken, but posted on social media.

  
  

  Here's what would make a difference to me - do the OPs friends and family already know that the OP and FI do not want photos of them on social media? Do they routinely ask not to be posted or avoid group photos that will end up on SM?

  
  

  We have a close family friends that do not want pictures of their kid on social media. Now I could go and take photos of her and plaster them all over the interwebz, bc I can and they are "my" photos to do as I please. But it would be rude of me as there is an existing baseline and long standing request that I not do this.

  
  

  If you just don't want photos bc you want to be the first to post or only have perfect images, than that's dumb. But if you have a history of requesting not to have your photo or info posted on SM I would hope people would respect your wishes. I think reminding people politely as the wedding approaches is not appalling either.

  
  

  ETA - I think this might be a troll tho, bc I'd be surprised that someone who is so anti SM would post on this very public forum. But that's just MHO

  
  

  Honestly, if the couple in question did not have a FB page or any other page on a social media site then 9 times out of 10 I wouldn't be posting pictures of them on my FB page.  And if I did it wouldn't be a picture of just the two of them it would more then likely be a picture of me and the couple with the description "me and the happy couple" or a group shot with a few different friends in the mix.  But it would primarily be picture of me and my H and other friends at the wedding.  No one would know the bride and grooms name unless they knew them personally because since they have no FB account I wouldn't be tagging them in it and I certainly wouldn't be spelling out their entire name in the description section.

  
  

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• phira member

  

  January 2014

  I do want to add:
  
  I have some friends who are on social media in limited ways (e.g. profile page with no photos of themselves, or protected Twitter accounts). In the past, when I've posted photos and tagged them, they've contacted me and (very politely) asked me to remove the tag or the photos.

  
  

  I think that if the couple learns that there are photos of themselves on social media, it's not against etiquette to contact the people who posted them and say, "Do you mind removing them? It would mean a lot to us."

  
  

  MUCH less rude than prohibiting all photos because you assume people will post them.

  

  now with ~* INCREASED SASSINESS *~
  
  

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