The Camera Sees All!

These days there are many ways pictures from your wedding are shared. Here's a guide to making sure all your wedding pics are awesome.

There isn’t one moment on your wedding day when cameras are not going to be on you. As the star of the day, you have to expect that you’re on-camera all the time…and just like celebrities with unflattering paparazzi shots, you could be captured chomping down messily on a cocktail hour short rib, or rolling your eyes after a guest asks you when you’re going to have babies. Or when you’re bending over to talk to your adorable little flowergirl…and flashing the entire room with way too good a look at your cleavage. At a wedding I attended recently, the bride in a short dress was sitting, talking to a friend, with her legs apart. The half-drunk groomsmen zoom-lensed her from across the dance floor and Facebooked the shot. It’s not just your professional photographer and videographer who will have their cameras trained on your every move. It’s all manner of guests with their own digital cameras and camcorders, and half-drunk people with those one-time-use cameras you put on their tables. It can even be the child guests with those one-time-use cameras. There’s no rule saying, “The dinner hour has begun, so put all cameras down.” No, you can pretty much be assured that guests are filming you eating your filet mignon, and filming your groom as he chews his. Which is why he also needs to be told about on-camera-all-the-time phenomenon that will take place on your big day. No need to get paranoid about video surveillance. Just keep in mind that you’ll never be off-camera, and eat a bit more daintily at the cocktail party and during the dinner hour. Don’t throw back shot after shot at the bar, or you’re probably going to wind up on YouTube, as you will if someone captures you sucking the meat out of a lobster claw and then licking your fingers. That’s fine for the Shore, not fine for your wedding day. Of course, I’m exaggerating here, but food etiquette is the #1 danger with cameras trained on you. Cleavage and up-the-skirt shots are #2. So if you’re wearing a short wedding dress, swing your legs sideways out of the limo, press your skirt down and stand up gracefully so your wedding paparazzi don’t get the panties shot. If your site has a spiral staircase, walk up along the outside edge of it, not along the inside banister that can give guests below an unwelcome view. Little tricks of the trade. The #3 danger with all cameras on you is the eye roll, and any other negative facial expressions you make, including glaring daggers at your groom while he talks to his high school ex at her table. The camera sees all…and while your pro photographer and videographer will certainly edit unflattering shots out of your wedding video and your online proofs album, certain guests with their own cameras will be all too happy to expose you to the world on social media. So smile for the cameras, but pass on the lobster claw, and definitely don’t give your mother-in-law a ‘look.’ Someone’s going to get it.

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