Weddingbee Blog

Hi, peeps! While I put off finishing my last recap (because then I’d be finished *sob*), I thought I’d throw in a post or two about life on the other side of that whole wedding thing. But let’s keep it wedding-related by talking about wedding photos, mkay?

More specifically, how do you decide which photos to actually display?

Step 1: Do nothing. Wait until your fabulous parents send you a photo they thoughtfully converted to canvas, mounted and framed as your Christmas gift. Then feel terrible that you haven’t sent anyone else wedding pictures and frantically try to pick a few to send as Christmas gifts. On the day before you have to mail said gifts across the country.

Step 2: Freak out. How do you choose pictures of yourself to send to other people? Narcissism, much?

Step 3: Calm down. Remember that this was a big event for both families and of course they’d like photographic evidence, if only to embarrass you by showing your future children at some future date. Choose the least goofy family pictures for printing.

Then print one goofy one specifically to embarrass your brother at a specific future date.

Step 4: Freak out. Family photos were an easy choice, but don’t parents also like portraits of the married couple? My favorites are the (you guessed it) cheesy pics like this:

or this:

… but I’m thinking our parents might like more formal shots, like this:

Step 5: Back to calm. You can do this. Even an indecisive person like you can do this. Really.

Step 6: Freak out. Now that your parents have sent you the one really awesome wedding pic, it looks very lonely as the only thing hanging on your very large, very bare wall (or it would if you could find the picture hangers and convince your husband to put a hole in the wall, but that’s another story). You need to frame and hang more photos to go on the newly-christened photo wall. The only thing worse than picking photos for your family is picking photos of yourself.

Step 7: Calm down. Remember that you blog for a really fantastic wedding blog filled with decisive peeps who will help you choose which pics to frame (and maybe remind you that you’re supposed to put up photos of yourselves on your wedding day, narcissism or not).

This is the photo that my parents converted to canvas:

It’s perfect. Help me decide what pictures to hang around it.

Option 1: All black and white. All people. All silly.

Option 2: Just us. Mostly silly. Mostly color.

Ooh, one last question: should I send people flattering (framed) pictures of themselves? I know that I never have decent pictures of myself (well, until this photographic extravaganza), but I’m also not sure I would display one… so what do you think?

Okay, okay, TWO last questions: I’m leaning toward small-ish 4×6 prints so that our faces don’t jump at you when you visit our home. Thoughts?

All photography by Angela Herzog of Angela Herzog Photography (www.angelaherzogphotography.com) unless otherwise noted. See this post for more details.