It’s the time of year when wedding photographers and videographers alike start to gradually peak out from their editing caves and meet up to discuss what they’ve all been up to and talk through the highs and lows of the wedding season. We’ve been involved in a few such meet ups lately and from all of our discussions one thing has become abundantly clear:
FAR TOO MANY BRIDES AND GROOMS ARE INVITING PEOPLE YOU DON’T ACTUALLY LIKE TO YOUR WEDDING!!!
Seriously, it’s incredible how often photographers seem to be asked to remove pictures from their galleries of people who were there that they don’t like or even ask if it’s possible to edit them out of the background. Now listen carefully, I will say this only once: If you dislike someone strongly enough that you want all evidence of their presence at your wedding deleted at the earliest opportunity, they almost certainly shouldn’t have made the guest list (unless of course you had some kind of plan to reveal your hatred of them by seating them all together at a table in the naughty corner named “rejects”, in which case you should probably have issued each of them with wedding favours in the form of paper bags to put over their heads or something…)
Now don’t get me wrong. I appreciate there are occasionally perfectly good reasons why you have to invite people you don’t particularly like to various social events. Maybe you work with them and it would be rude not to invite them to the office Christmas drinks or, you know, maybe you really don’t like them but they’re the ones who bring the Wii around to play Mario Kart or something and it seems a bit harsh to ask them to just drop it off and leave. So yes, there probably are many social occasions where you don’t necessarily really have the choice over inviting certain people, but your wedding day isn’t one of them.
Your wedding is YOUR day. It’s not about impressing anyone, it’s not about networking, pleasing others or (on the most part) playing Mario Kart. It’s the one day where you truly call the shots and get to spend it with all the people you love, together in one place, and not be surrounded by people you smile at through gritted teeth whilst painting a dart board on their face in your mind. Stop fretting about whether they will be offended if you don’t invite them, in fact your should rejoice in how offended they might be, you do after all not like these people so much that you’re about to ask your photographer to do the equivalent of cutting your ex-girlfriend out of all the pictures of the two of you together.
So join us in our new revolutionary concept of only inviting people you like to the most important day of your lives and this world will be the better for it. Or, if you’re not quite willing to commit to NO people you don’t like at your wedding then you might want to check out our new range of special limited edition Bride Vs Groom paper bags to place over their heads, available now from no good retailers. We’ve made them smell of garlic to repel the evil spirits within so I think you’ll agree they’re worth every penny.
