Displaying photographs of you, your friends and your family at your wedding reception engages your guests and seizes their attention. If they are included in some of the photographs, you are involving them in a very personal, special way. These images can bring back happy memories, induce a few laughs, and share some of your [...]

Displaying photographs of you, your friends and your family at your wedding reception engages your guests and seizes their attention. If they are included in some of the photographs, you are involving them in a very personal, special way. These images can bring back happy memories, induce a few laughs, and share some of your more personal moments as a couple with those nearest and dearest to both of you. Couples wanting to display photographs at their wedding have some different options.

Digital Photo Frames
Upload some of your favourite ‘couple snaps’ as well as a wide array of pictures of your friends and family members, most of whom are likely to be at the wedding. Include aged photographs of you as children (which can be scanned in) as well as recent pictures for some variety. Invest in a few digital photo frames and place these throughout the venue. Set the photographs to run on a ‘slideshow’ so that they rotate automatically. For an even greater selection of photos, ask your guests to bring a memory card or memory stick of their own selection of photographs. These can be uploaded at the reception (assign someone to do this) and included in the slideshow.

Cork Board
Include an appeal on your invitations asking each guest to bring a photograph that will be special to you and them. Put a large, attractive corkboard and plenty of thumbtacks at the entrance of your reception venue and ask your guests to pin their photo to the board. By the time everyone has arrived, you will have a large collage of photographs of friends, family and yourselves. Guests will love scanning the board and spotting friends and family.

Projector
Load a selection of photographs onto a laptop and project these onto a large white screen or a white wall. As these rotate, guests will point out old faces, reminisce and laugh at silly snaps. This adds a sense of nostalgia to the entire look and feel of your wedding as well as the reception venue.

Share the Wedding Experience
Ask each of the married couples that you have invited to your wedding to bring a few of their own wedding photographs to be displayed at the reception. This is much easier for couples that have plenty of married friends and family members, so that most of the guests can feel involved in this way. Guests from different age groups and eras will bring very different styles of wedding photographs – black and white, 1980’s luminous style, modern, and so on. This creates a fabulous spectacle for others (who may even have attended those weddings in years past).

Garland Display
Paste some of your favourite photographs on to flowers made of cardboard or paper. Then, string these blooms together into a mock garland. The card or paper should reflect the theme colour(s) of your wedding, or can be made up of various bright colours for a more vibrant effect. Hang the garland above the entrance of the venue, over the DJ box or across a quaint fireplace. If you prefer to include photographs of or from your guests in this display, ask them to provide pictures well ahead of time.

By including memories of those that are closest to you or pictures of you as a couple at your wedding, your reception is given an even more special ambience of love and romance.

Photo Credit: Emmaline Bride