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

jenna8984 · April 2014

I love photographs and hanging them in my home- can't wait for all the great pictures of FI and I on our wedding day, and our families and friends. But every time I look through galleries there are at least 10 pictures of inanimate objects. Why would I want pictures of my purse, my shoes, my makeup brushes, my chair I'm going to eat dinner in, a candle, a pile of bobby pins. Even the ones where the dress is just hanging- I don't really think it looks flattering for the dress at all. I guess I just don't get it. To me it's like "Hey I just bought a house- here's a close up picture of the mailbox".

And I don't mean scenery/ a large one of the venue all set up- those make sense!

climbingsingle · April 2014

Eh. I like it. I could totally see hanging pictures of my dress/shoes in my closet or something.

HisGirlFriday13 · April 2014

I can see both sides. The make-up ones, and the bobby-pins, and the dress hanging with the light behind it all kind of are 'eh' to me.

But I love the photos of our reception venue, especially the close-ups of our tables, because I didn't get a chance to see them before people sat down at them, and I liked seeing how all my hard work paid off.

Inkdancer · April 2014

I wouldn't print the detail photos, but as a guest I love looking back at them. A lot of the time I didn't get to see the bouquets or shoes or tie pins up close. It's nice to have pictures of those things for the people who missed them the first time.

Edit because I can't spell today.

singinchick13 · April 2014

I probably would not hang those photos on the wall or anything, but I think if you went through the effort to decorate and put in all these little touches it's nice to have a picture. It's like the cake....of course there will be a picture of the cake, right?! Before it gets demolished, of course

Oh and I'm a huge sucker for a pic of the bouquet with the bride's shoes. Not sure why, I just love how it's like....hinting at what's to come or something.

JennyColada · April 2014

I like them! I especially love pictures of dessert tables of the bride/groom chairs.

jenna8984 · April 2014

Yup I'm totally the oddball I guess! lol

tcnoble · April 2014

@jenna8984 You are not alone!! When we were booking our photographer and figuring out how much time we could afford, we decided we would rather have more pictures of the reception than pictures before of us getting ready and those previously stated photos of inanimate objects. I don't need/want photos of my shoes, makeup, hangers, etc. So nope, you're not the only oddball!

jessiray · April 2014

@jenna8984 You definitely are not the only oddball! I saw a wedding photo of the dress hanging, and it looked awful. Without a body in it, the dress looked blah. The only inanimate objects I want pics of are our rings with my bouquet (I love my ring, and I could look of pics of it all day long. It's very shiny), and our cake. Our cake is going to look fan-freaking-tastic and is going to taste even better. Otherwise, I don't need the pics of the inanimate objects, either. I want to see my loved ones enjoying our day, and I want to see my and my FI enjoying our day! Also, I'm in the photographer not taking pics of me getting ready camp. He is awesome, but I don't need him getting pictures of us getting ready.

AddieCake · April 2014

I like them. Some photographers are brilliant at making that stuff look artistic, and I think it looks neat.

erinlin25 · April 2014

I love those pictures and is a reminder of how much time and effort was put in to all those little details. Did I print those pictures and frame them for around the house, No, but a lot them were in my photo album and is a nice reminder of all the pieces that made our day so special. One of my favorite pictures was one with my shoes and rings!

Chipmunk415 · April 2014

I liked the photo of my mom's dress and mine hanging together. It was poignant to me, as I'm her only child. I liked the photos of the cake, cupcakes, and a few randoms of the ceremony and reception sites, just to give context to the setting. Also enjoyed the shot of my bouquet on the head table, where we had no floral originally, with some candles. Its my only close up of my bouquet, and the preservation effort did not go well.

syoun1nj · April 2014

I loved some of our details, especially our bouts and escort cards, so I like having the pictures of them. I didn't put a ton of them in our album but they came out great. And it's not like I was paying per picture so who cares! I don't think we had any of makeup brushes or bobby pins those. Just stuff like rings, my dress, my "something old/borrowed," bouts, things like that.

My dress probably looked better on a hanger than on me, haha!!

mysticl · April 2014

I get things like the rings, the dress, or the cake. But some of the other stuff seems silly to me. A friend had a picture of the inside of her make up bag, I didn't get that. Our photographer took some pics of the buffet table decorations. I don't know why, I didn't do them, they were generic decorations provided by the venue. I would have preferred more actual wedding pictures.

chibiyui · April 2014

I get hung up on details, so I'll definitely want some "detail" shots. I probably won't print any of them, but I'd like to have them in an album.

vmj23 · April 2014

I wouldn't print and frame those types of pictures, but I would like to have them just to have pictures of all the details.

larrygaga · April 2014

I'll want detail shots too, just for me to remember in a photo album. Of course, the most important shots are the ones of people!

flyingfoxes · April 2014

I like them too - I like the black and white "arty" type pictures. I get 2 photographers all day, so we're definitely doing the getting-ready pictures too.

doeydo · April 2014

I like them. I probably wouldn't hang those pictures up (except for maybe a picture of my dress and accessories in my dream walk-in closet) but I would like to look back and see the little things in my wedding album.

Cookie Pusher · April 2014

I would want them for myself, for sure. I won't get to see the reception space before all the guests arrive. I won't get to see how my centerpieces, escort cards, etc. looked once they were all set up. Considering how much time I'm putting in to them, those pictures would be very important to me. Also, let's be honest, I'm going to be nervous and busy the morning of the wedding. I won't really be paying attention to all the little detail things, and those pictures will help me remember. No one else needs to see them or like them, those are for me.

jenna8984 · April 2014

Valid point Cookie pusher!!

winelover123 · April 2014

I didn't do getting ready pictures, but I do have pictures of some of the details. I put so much work into my centerpieces (coffee filter roses), that I wanted a picture of it all set up. They're in our album and I like to look at them sometimes.

tammym1001 · April 2014

I have no plans of having "getting ready" pictures, but I have asked my photographer to get pictures of the details. FSMIL is doing all the flowers so I definitely want pictures of those because I know she's spending a ton of time on them, but also I feel like years down the road I'm not going to remember all those little details of my wedding that I've spent so much time on, but I will have them with my pictures to jog my memory.

Maggie0829 · April 2014

We have a few detailed pictures. I really wanted our photographer to capture our flowers because I used to be a florist and I knew I was going to love our flowers. I even printed out a small 5x7 canvas of my bouquet and have it displayed in my house. I think getting some detailed shots of inanimate objects is nice to have because after you get rid of all your wedding things the pictures are all you have of what you included. I mean, I think a photographer can over do it but getting some highlights of your decor, shoes and even food is nice.

Marzipan13 · April 2014

singinchick13 said:

I probably would not hang those photos on the wall or anything, but I think if you went through the effort to decorate and put in all these little touches it's nice to have a picture. It's like the cake....of course there will be a picture of the cake, right?! Before it gets demolished, of course

Oh and I'm a huge sucker for a pic of the bouquet with the bride's shoes. Not sure why, I just love how it's like....hinting at what's to come or something.

This! I agree that not every single wedding picture should be hung on the wall, but I think they're lovely to look at in a wedding album. As a little girl (and even now, at 23!), I loved looking through my parents' wedding album, and there aren't any pictures of the close-up details or inanimate objects. Maybe it's just the trend of the generation I live in, but I really enjoy the "details"! I think it helps capture the essence of the whole day very succinctly.

xoxmichaelaxox · April 2014

To some extent I agree. You can see my hair and makeup in photos, you don't need to know what products went into making me look the way I do when I walk down the aisle. That said, I want the dress photos. And the getting ready photos. I bought my bridesmaids robes from amazon (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008JHY6C4/ref=oh_details_o01_s00_i02?ie=UTF8&psc=1)

and I think I'm going to do wire name hangers from etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheCraftyOCDBaker?ref=si_shop). Other than that, just pictures of people. And anything I spent a ton of time DIY-ing.

carliealissa · April 2014

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.

lightningsnow · April 2014

I love detail photos. I wanted to be a photographer for a small part of my 20s until I realized I couldn't afford to go back to school and I couldn't afford a really good camera. I think they are nice things to look back on. After my brother's wedding in Bermuda, my SIL came over our house with the disc of her photos. She allowed me to get the photos off of it and onto my computer so that me and my parents could see them. All of the little detail photos in her album were wonderful and really captured the whole aspect of the wedding in Bermuda.

netskyblue2 · April 2014

I don't like them either. I want to see photos of people, not things. Although I don't mind a photo of the cake, especially if it's a fancy decorated one. You know, to remember what it looked like. But then, I don't care about the details at all. We're only having centerpieces because FI didn't want bare tables. My shoes are just the only comfy white shoes I could find the day I went shoe shopping, etc. We specifically told our photographers we did NOT want getting ready photos.

OnceUponSnow · April 2014

I love object pictures and I absolutely want them ! Part of why is because I've put so much though and effort to choose the ''perfect'' accessories that people will barely notice, that I'd like to remember them and have pictures showing different aspects of the whole wedding process - not just the wedding day itself, but the shopping, the choices of accessories I loved, the decor I've put thought, time and effort into in order to craft, etc.

jenna8984 · April 2014

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?!

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

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