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A bad bride? Because you haven't printed photos yet? I'm sorry, but that may be one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard!! Don't worry about it! It's not a big deal - you'll get them printed when you have time!!
If it makes you feel any better - I have been married for 1 year and 3 months and I have yet to order professional prints or my album!
(We own our own picture files so we have made plenty of our own to tide us over)
I think this is pretty common. I would guess after months of planning, most people just need a break from it all. I did the same things with our engagement pictures. Absolutely love them, but haven't found time to print yet :)
I understand! We have printed a few to send to relatives, but what does she even mean (your mom) about printing them? Does she want you to print all of them or something?
Thanks for the support ladies! I'm glad we aren't the only ones! Basically my mom thinks I should have printed 8x10s of the pictures she wants and is waiting for me to do it. Despite me sending the files she wanted to her and my dad 3 times. It just cracked me up. First, it's been 8 months, she's had ample opportunity to do any printing she wanted, and second, calling me a bad bride and hanging up on me just struck me as hilarious.
I figure as long as grandma got her brag book so she could see what she couldn't be here for, we don't owe anyone anything. We'll get to it when we can. If I'm a bad bride, at least I'm in good company here! :)
Your not a bad bride. We have printing rights also and I haven't printed any either. We did order a few from the photog since she had 50% off for a limited time. We just finally ordered our album, which we wouldn't have gotten to if we weren't about to lose our 15% discount of which we had had extended once already and no more extensions were possible. Your mom needs to chill or print hem herself.
This must actually happen a lot because even our photographer had mentioned this to us. Most brides take months to tackle this task. It's not uncommon because like you said life gets in the way. Your mom is probably just excited to see the pictures but her reaction was a bit much.
Wow, you are so not a bad bride. You have the photos. You've seen the photos. You love the photos and now you're loving married life! Give yourself time honey! We'll probably not print any wedding photos for at least a year! ;)
If your mom wants prints, she can do it herself :)
As far as I'm concerned, you can get around to it when you get around to it. It's been about four months since our wedding, and I'm still trying to layout our album online. I'm nowhere near ready to make any final decisions. I'll take as long as I need!
We rushed and had albums printed for our parents for Christmas. But if any of them want prints, they can do it themselves. I'll jsut e-mail them the files they want.
Congratulations on your wedding! Well, Idk about your mom, but my mom is not great with computers; maybe she doesn't know how to get the files printed?? But if she does, then I would just tell her that she is free to print out whatever she wants or maybe she can contact your photographer for prints?
We were married in July, and we printed out two tolken pictures for each guest's thank you card, but we haven't printed them ALL yet. I uploaded them to shutterfly and told everybody that if they wanted pics they could print them out themselves. Don't feel bad at all, it's not YOUR responsibility. (If you want to surprise her though, you could make your 8x10 her Mother's Day present, LOL!)
You are not a bad bride! Your mom needs to relax and chill (maybe she needs that donut? Maybe it will distract her....)
Honey - it took us a YEAR to pick out the photos for our album! A full 12 months! So if you're a bad bride, I'm a hellish one! Haha...
Your mom needs to chill. If she wants the photos that badly she can print them herself (especially since you emailed them to her 3 times) or she can find somebody else (neighbor, neice, grand-whoever) to do it for her!
I'm sure MIL thinks that way. I'm printed off a few and posted the rest on a free online sharing/printing album. I was still shocked that other people (BIL) wanted me to print for them. Others are claiming they are not techie....or some kind of guilt trip. I don't want to print. :! yet! My mom hinted a lot but finally took things into her own hands. She is nagging me about thank you cards to her friends...still.
If you are a bad bride I am in Trouble!! Its been 18months for us. YIKES!
urm, we got a few wallets and all the prints, but no fancy photos, and we are almost to our anniversary! we have been ridiculously busy, and as soon as our lives started to calm a smidge, I got pregnant (a blessing, but no rest for the weary!)
Although it's really important to me to get great pictures at our wedding, prints are not important to me, so we picked a package that includes only $100 worth. We plan to make an album of our wedding which doesn't require printing pictures. We'll probably print something to have it framed and then to give to family.
I just say this to agree with you, that just because you don't have pictures printed doesn't mean you didn't love your wedding or your pictures! You probably have a disc and have looked at those! Plus, it sounds like you've had a lot going on.
If you're a bad bride then I'm a bad mom! My daughter is 16 months old and honest to God, the only photos I've ever printed of her have been for gifts and holidays. I have her photos taken every 3 months, without fail, and every photo is cherished and saved safely on my computer and on my brother's personal server, but I've yet to actually sit down with frames and pick/choose/print photos. Life totally gets in the way! Don't worry about what others say about it...you're entitled to getting around to them when you're able. It's not a simple task - photos can be pretty time consuming!
ETA: We have tons of photos of her around the house because my SIL is great at gifting us precious framed prints of Madi.
We haven't printed any. I looked at them online, FH still hasn't, and the only time we even opened the photographer's package was a few weeks ago when the band (one of his friends) was harrassing him about wanting the pictures of the band. Turns out we have 2 DVDs, 10 CDs of color and 8 black and white CDs. So I don't think you are bad at all!!!!!
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I realize this may be sacrilege on Weddingbee, but I just have to know if I'm alone...
My husband and I hired a wonderful husband and wife photography team to shoot our wedding. We couldn't be happier with the whole process. Part of our agreement was that we have joint copyright to our pictures. We could choose to print our pics through the printing company they work with, or we could print our own pics. It's been 8 months since the wedding, and other than some 4x6s we've printed for some albums, we haven't printed anything. Granted, there has been a ton of issues that keep cropping up and keep us occupied.
So the other day my mom called me and went off and said I was a horrible bride. That normal people are happy to print their wedding pictures and why haven't we got it done yet. I laughed and laughed! But it got me thinking... are we really that weird? It's something we want to get done. We are thrilled with our pictures, so it's not like we dislike them and don't want them. Life just keeps happening. Is there anyone else out there that hasn't printed their wedding pictures a while after the wedding?
Am I really a bad bride? :P