Comments on: tft: how long is too long? wedding photos

By: lib

lib — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 23:04:37 +0000

that’s funny that you mention that. i just was looking at the wedding picture we have up on our wall and i totally don’t like it, but i was feeling guilty about thinking to take it down.
i like the idea of getting pictures done of the 3 of you and having that up on the wall…
happy snowy good friday, what the ?

By: jenny

jenny — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:34:07 +0000

interesting thought. matt and i got married in 2003. i have one shot of us the photographer took in an 8×10, and another shot my mom took of us looking out over lake superior with our backs to the camera in an 8×10. they are both in our living room right now (you can see them in one of my recent posts). anyways, i like the one of us looking out over the lake because it is kind of a timeless photo – you will never see the age in your face in that shot. so, i would probably keep that out for a while – somewhere in the house. i have a small 4×6 of our wedding party on lake superior in my entertainment center too. that’s it. i think eventually i’ll move them all into our bedroom.

if you don’t like yours, i would take them down or try displaying them in a different way? hmmm. kim had some good ideas.

can’t wait to hear what you decide. :)

By: Kim

Kim — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:19:49 +0000

i think i might put a couple of our wedding pictures up. until now we’ve only had them in our bedroom. ours are still less than 5 years old though :)

i was just over at someone’s house and they had an adorable wedding picture in their dining room… it was pretty big, and they’ve been married awhile… maybe 10 years or more? it was a pretty timeless picture though, a close-up and black and white. i guess now that i think about it, it WAS a little unexpected because they’re a little older and have 3 kids. but i liked how it looked, maybe even partly for that reason?

if you don’t like looking at yours though, i’d just take them down! why have something up you don’t like? but, if you feel like you should have one somewhere… maybe you could even get a reprint in black and white and maybe even a different crop?

or, maybe you just have to take them down until they’re cool again because they’re so old ;) i remember those big huge wedding pictures your grandparents had in their place. those were awesome! i guess though, after 60 years of marriage, you’d better be showing those off.

By: Katie

Katie — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:07:12 +0000

I don’t think there is anything wrong with taking wedding photos off display. I think eventually everyone ends up hating them…my hair was crusty and forced into an updo, Troy’s has just fallen out. They hardly look like us any more!
My suggestion-have some family photos professionally taken of the 3 of you and replace the montage with something you will love to look at each day.

By: Grandpa B.

Grandpa B. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:59:50 +0000

I believe our house qualifies for the “wedding photos from the 70’s” category. I don’t believe we have many of those June 75 photos hanging on our walls any more.

By: heather

heather — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:12:22 +0000

oops! somehow part of my sentence is missing…
I meant to say the big collage frame we have is like 2.5feet by 3.5feet with about 40 pictures openings in it, with all the notes and signatures on the matting all in between. Love that frame!

By: heather

heather — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:09:28 +0000

Oooh, good Thought this Thursday!!
When we got married (almost 6 years ago), we didn’t really have a big wedding picture or montage displayed anywhere. I just don’t like to look at myself that much LOL! On the shelves around our entertainment center I had a 5×7 of us on our wedding day (we had a very candid “photojournalistic” photographer… very very few posed/staged shots at all) and one of my dad walking me down the aisle. After we left our first house, those two were transfered to our bedroom, along with a couple more from our wedding day. I like them in there because I can see them everyday.
We also have a huge collage frame -it’s like – which was our “guest book” at our wedding. It has pictures of both Ryan and I growing up and then pictures of us together and then a wedding photo in the center, and that is what all of our friends and family signed at the wedding. I had a great spot for that at the top of the stairs in both of our first two houses, and now I have no real great spot for it now, so it’s in our guest room. I think it’s fun to have up because people can read notes from the guests and also make fun of our baby and teenage pictures!! So that’s really the only wedding paraphanalia I have on display.
Not sure what the protocal is on this though… interesting! I’m trying to think of friends houses, and you’re right… the only ones I’ve noticed are relatively recent newlyweds.
But wedding picture or not, if it’s a picture I really liked of the two of us, I think in general I’d leave it up or out, without paying attention to the age of the picture!

By: Grandpa J

Grandpa J — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:58:11 +0000

I think everyone gets tired of viewing the same things sooner or later. There is no lack of pictures of all you kids at our house, but we do tend to move them around from time to time to change things up. Yes, we even put some pictures away and bring out others to rotate the stock on occasion. If you don’t want to go through the trouble of re-hanging wall frames to get a different look, you may want to consider just changing the photo displayed in the frame from time to time.