You can increase the happiness quotient of your wedding by adding touches of photography throughout your showers, ceremony and reception. Shutterfly has a few ideas on how you can blend in your personal photos.
Tell your history
Collect the photos of you and your fiancé, and create places throughout your reception area to showcase snippets of how you became a couple. You can designate each table as one of your important "dates" or personal milestones, creating centerpieces with these photos and memorabilia. Guests mingling can enjoy a new piece of your story at each table they visit.
Create a memory table
Invite friends and family to bring their favorite pictures of you and your fiancé, and place them on the table. Seeing your relationship through the eyes of others is a great way to tell your story. If you're set for gifts, you can always ask your guests to bring their favorite pictures of you as their gift. You can also make a Shutterfly photo book with alternating blank pages for guests to sign and leave their best wishes.
Share traditions
If your wedding will feature family or cultural foods, create a recipe book to share with your guests. A picture of your grandmother alongside her recipe for butter mints infuses the treats with personal flavor. Create take-home books for key members of your family and wedding party, and share the contents with everyone else in an online gallery.
Create a slideshow for the reception
Turn the pictures you've been taking since you met into a slideshow. Your guests will get a kick out of the candid shots taken from your first days together, or while shopping for your wedding attire, attending parties, and quiet romantic moments. They might even see themselves in some of the shots!
You can also create a very specific storyline, like Stephanie and Kevin, who worked with their wedding photographer to create a fantastic 3D slideshow that tells a story of the what it takes to plan a wedding. Present the slideshow once during the reception and then have a computer at a table for your guests to browse at their leisure.
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