Your Wedding Day Photos

Besides taking your vows, taking pictures is one of the most important things you’ll do on your wedding day. And let’s face it; wedding photos are a big deal. Over the course of your lifetime, you’ll probably look at your wedding photos dozens of times. Back when pictures were something you took once or twice in your life, it was your wedding photograph that was passed down from generation to generation.

These days, however, things are much different. Almost everyone has a digital camera, and wedding photography is big business. With a professional photographer (or two) on the scene, and friends and family furiously snapping pictures, you can easily amass thousands of photographs of your big day.

The question is, how do you share these memories? Most guests never get to see those beautiful professional wedding photographs. Likewise, the bride and groom rarely see the shots from Uncle Joe and Aunt Marie’s camera.

Luckily, MemoriesGrow makes it easy to organize, upload and share all photographs of your wedding day. With a few simple steps, everyone can enjoy the memories of one of the best days of your life.

Professional Photographs

When you hire a professional photographer, how you’ll receive your photographs is part of the contract. These days, you usually get a couple of CDs and copies of the best shots to be put in a physical album. Some photographers also include a digital slideshow as a part of the deal.

We recommend that you select a few of your favorite shots from the day and move them into a “Wedding Day” folder on your computer. Select one to four photos from each “element” of the day. Choose a few pictures of you and the groom getting ready, a few of the ceremony, décor, dancing, guests, and food. Then, upload these photos to MemoriesGrow in your Wedding Day album and share with all of the people who matter most to you.

Before you upload and share any professional photographs, it’s imperative that you first check with your photographer. He or she most likely wants credit for their work, so they may ask that you post photographs stamped with their studio name or logo.

Non-Professional Photographs

Some of the best photographs of your big day may be sitting on someone’s camera, lost to the bride and groom forever! However, through MemoriesGrow, your wedding guests can add their photos to your wedding album.

Say one of your family members uploads an album to your timeline that you don’t want to share with others. Simply click “Hide Album” and your connections won’t be able to view it. It won’t delete the album, but it will instead remain between you and the person who uploaded it.

Another option is to have your guests send you the pictures from their cameras. You can then select the photographs you want to showcase and upload them to your MemoriesGrow wedding album.

Tips for Organizing Photographs

With wedding photographs, it’s always a good idea to organize the shots in chronological order. If you think about it, your wedding is a pretty dramatic (hopefully not drama-filled) event. There’s a build up, a climax, then a big party where everyone relaxes and has fun. The only logical way to tell this story is by documenting it as it happened

Depending on your taste, you may want to consider mixing the professional and the non-professional photographs in the same album. This will make your guests feel as though they really have contributed to the day. However, you can create two albums, one with professional photographs and one with the shots from your guests.

No doubt you put a lot of time and thought into planning your wedding, and it’s important that you capture the moments that you’ll remember for the rest of your life. It’s important too, for the people who shared your big day with you to be able to see your beautiful photos.

And while professional photographs are great, your guest’s photos can be just as special. They’ll have photos of people not represented in the professional photos and candid moments your photographer missed. In some cases, guest photos have saved the bride and groom when the photographer failed to show up…heaven forbid!