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how long do you keep a wedding photo as your facebook profile pic?

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    PurpleUnicorn    April 19, 2011  

    DH and I both put up a guest photo the day after our wedding at the same time we changed our marital status on facebook.  Then once we were blogged, we put a pro pic as our profile pics.  So basically for the last 2 months, i had have a wedding pic as my facebook profile pic.

    Since we are doing our at home reception in August, i have refrained from posting a full album of wedding pics until after we show them at the AHR.  But for fun, since today is our 2 month anniversary, we each put a different pro pic up as our profile pic - so for friends and family who were not at our wedding, this is only the second pro wedding pic they have seen.   I figure i will do that on each monthly anniversary until august.  

    Just wondering - am i totally weird?  how long did you leave your wedding pic as your facebook profile pic?  (or how long do you think you will?)

     
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    PrairieGirl    August 26, 2011   Winnipeg, Canada

    I think that's a cool idea!! Especially since you still have a wedding event coming up. I left an engagement photo up for a few months. I'm sure I'll put up some wedding pics as well! But I don't think I'll leave it up for months and months on end...

     
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    Mrs Sarah McK    October 10, 2010   Harrisburg, PA

    I left mine up for about 6 months, but DH's is still a picture from our wedding 8 months ago. I have some friends who were married last summer who still have wedding pictures as their profile pics. I say leave it up as long as you want. 

     
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    MissAsB    June 6, 2009   Married in CO, Living in AL

    My profile pic is still a wedding picture.  We don't do pictures very often.

     
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    SapphireSun    July 9, 2010   Vancouver, BC

    I think I had one for about 5-6 months then I changed it to something new that came up.  Then for mother's day one of those things went around about posting a pic of you and your mom, so I posted one of her doing up my dress, and then today one of me and my dad.  Now our anniversary is next month, so I'll probably post a picture from our trip to Europe that we just got back from for the next little while, and then put it back up for the anniversary, and then maybe that will be the end of the wedding-ness.

     
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    melisslp    July 3, 2010   St. Louis, MO

    You aren't wierd at all!  We've been married a year and I still post wedding pics from time to time.  For example, I put a pic of my Dad walking me down the aisle as my profile pic for the last few days in celebration of Father's Day.  No worries...

     
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    sbharkness83    October 22, 2011   baltimore

    UNtil you have baby bump pics to post?

     
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    tall_jenny    August 27, 2011   Victoria, BC, Canada

    I think months and months is totally fine. However I have a couple of friends (one who got married more than a year ago and one that got married 3 years ago) who still have wedding pictures as their profile pictures. I think that might be a little too long....

     
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    EvaBostonTerrier    July 3, 2010  

    We've been married almost a year and I still have a picture of the two of us as my profile picture!  It's a good picture - it's not too often that we get professional pictures of us done.  Oh, and it's just of our faces.  It would be hard to tell it was a wedding picture unless you looked REALLY closely.

     
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    AmeliaBedelia    March 3, 2012   Georgia

    My general thought is that...until I have a reason to change it, like a holiday picture or whatever. Months is fine, but I think having it up a LONG time is kind of weird. I have a friend who has had hers up for years and it's kind of like "You don't even look like that now." Lol

     
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    Lee_Ann    October 20, 2012   Pittsburgh

    i have friends on my list that have had their wedding pics as their main pic for 3 years now... i personally think that's a bit much.  but i see nothing wrong with a year or less.

     
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    Lee_Ann    October 20, 2012   Pittsburgh

    @AmeliaBedelia: exactly!

     
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    JPtoBE    October 2011  

    @Lee_Ann: i know what you mean. i understand the excitement in posting a wedding pic- but sometimes when i see a wedding picture posted for a loooooong time (meaning same wedding picture posted FOREVER despite being active on FB)...i think to myself, "I GET IT, YOU'RE MARRIED!!"

     

     
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    ADBK2011    October 1, 2011   Atlanta

    I had a friend who has been married for 5 years and just recently changed it since they had a baby.  I do think that 5 years is a bit long...surely you taken a more recent pic together.

     
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    PurpleUnicorn    April 19, 2011  

    thanks for the feedback everyone! looks like since i am only at 2 months, i am still pretty normal! i imagine when i finish my internship in 2 weeks i will put a pic of me and my friends i am leaving behind at our going away party, but once i get to 3 month anniversary, i am sure there will be a wedding pic back up!! i

    its true what you are all saying, these are like the only pro pics i ever had done with DH! ..

     

    @sbharkness83:  lol, i guess that depends when i actually get pregnant! i am thinking i need to finish school first, get a job, save some money.....

     
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    JewishBride    June 13, 2010   Michigan

    We still have wedding photos up and we've been married for a year. I'm not a fan of taking pictures so they just happen to be the best looking ones of me and I'm all dolled up. I don't think anything's wrong with it.

     
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    bebefly    October 22, 2011   Ottawa

    until a better picture comes along? ....I'm guessing that might take awhile.

     
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    Miss Britt    June 25, 2010   Kalamazoo, MI

    I just took mine down yesterday and I will be married one year this Saturday.  I'm pretty choosy about my profile picture, and I really loved the one that I had up so I left it up for a long time.  I replaced it with one that we took last weekend from our 1 year anniversary trip.  Also, I've lost 40 lbs since my wedding, so I was excited to have a thinner picture posted.  But, I think they can stay up as long as you want.  I wish I would have thought to change to a new wedding picture every month, that's super cute!

     
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    maureen9004    August 2008  

    My husband has one up from our wedding from three years ago. I have something more recent :)

     
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    eehkay    June 23, 2012   Moorpark

    FOREVER. I have my engagement picture up right now, and I plan on just rotating through them as my profile pic. 

     

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