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Am I the only one out there who's not getting a big framed pic from the wedding to hang in our living room?
I will definitely have framed prints on my desk at home and at work, but it's just not really our style to have pictures of the two of us displayed in the public rooms. It makes us both feel self-conscious. We'd rather have art on the walls. Anyone else skipping the living-room wedding pics? Why or why not?
I'm doing an 8x10 but nothing bigger. We had a photo frame (mat) guestbook and I can't wait to hang it!
Nope! Not a big fan of big pictures of me/us either. We have a canvas in our bedroom from our wedding, but you can't see our faces in it :)
I'm more open to it now that it's been a few years since the wedding, but definitely right after the wedding I was REALLY not into having wedidng pics around the house on display.
Sorry, I messed up the poll initially, but it should be fixed now!
I only have one picture of us in the house, framed. I'm not the kind to have a framed pic at work either. I'd rather just keep the pictures for the two of us than share with others. But I tend to be a private person. Certainly don't need any nosiness at work!
I love to have pictures of us around the house, but they are mostly framed snapshots. I do have a few professional photos framed, but nothing larger than 5*7 of just FI and I. I have been torn about this. If we do, it will be an artistic shot, not a formal posed shot. And I will have to be in LOVE with the way we look in it. I will definetely frame tons of shots I love in smaller sizes and have them all around. And am also thinking of getting a nice digital frame that is just for our wedding photos.
We get a canvas as part of our photography package, so we'll probably display that. I've thought about displaying one of our engagement photoes, but I'm still undecided.
Well what we are hanging is not exactly a wedding pic. We plan on taking engagement pics and putting that in a large frame, with a white poster board behind the pic. Then at the wedding, as our guests arrive, they will be able to sign and/or give advice, or congratulations around our picture on the poster board.
After the wedding we'll put it all together and we can then hang our (guestbook) on our wall. My FI didnt want a regular guestbook. He didnt want our family and friends write us special messages and then have the book collect dust on a shelf.
As too our actual wedding photos, Im not sure. I think our hanging (guestbook) is enough for the walls. We will probably put our wedding pic on a shelf or something.
No we wont in the living room. I think its fine in the bedroom or a hallway or something. I have a friend that has an entire wall in her living room devoted to her and her BF's pictures. *gag*. I know it's their house, but seriously 2 or 3 would have sufficed haha.
We have 3 wedding photos in our living room, but they are not prominently displayed. We have two on two different side tables that are 5x7 and then another 4x6 on a shelf on our entertainment center. Eventually I'd like to do a gallery wall and have a couple photos (no larger than 8x10) interspersed with other framed prints and photos.
We went to a friends' house and they had an entire wall with huge framed photos from their wedding - both couple photos and individual photos. It just seemed like a little much to me!
I totally don't like having big pictures of us up either! I don't like my face being....all up in my face!
We have a big 30x20 inch wrap canvas print that I won in a giveaway, but I still have no idea where to hang it. It weirds me out to be looking at myself all the time!
I love photos, but I feel weird hanging a big one in a main part of our home. I think if I did a wall collage, I 'd add one.
I love photos, but I feel weird hanging a big one in a main part of our home. I think if I did a wall collage, I 'd add one.
@cola: I don't like my face being....all up in my face!
LOL - I completely get that. And my DH feels that way even more strongly than I do, even!
We have an 11x17, but it's in a private part of the house and it's mostly landscape.
We have wedding pics up in our living room, but not "prominently"--they're small prints, mixed in with other family pictures (we did a family photo gallery wall).
I like art. Hanging huge photos of people reminds me of my sister-in-law's parents' house. It feels old fashioned.
I love my art in my living room...it's a special piece to me and I don't need anything to compete with it. :)
I quite like the idea of it, although we arent married yet - ill see if I change my tune after the wedding?
I also want to make clear, in case it wasn't before, that I absolutely have no problems with other people's displays! I think they can look wonderful. I wasn't trying to rag on them.
I'm actually surprised by the poll results; I would have thought more people would hang them. But maybe that's because of the way I worded the post title.
I didn't think I'd be in the minority, but we have some photos displayed in our "public" areas. My sister got us a photo to canvas certificate, so I Have 2 of those displayed (11 x17) and also havea 5x7 photo that's incorporated in a gift I got from a friend (like this: http://www.etsy.com/listing/62763114/16x16-personalized-picture-frame-wedding)-- the piece has our name, wedding date and a quote from our first dance song and I put a picture of us dancing in it. We have a pretty small apartment anyway, but I like having photos around to remind us of our wedding and what a great time we had!
I never really thought I'd have photos displayed either. . . yet I do.
We have our ketubah and chuppah on the wall (we had some of our closests friends and family design the squares and used the borders as a general guestbook) and there was a space.. . I didn't know what else to put there and a wedding picture seemed to fit the theme.
Many of the people who visit us spend time looking at the squares and reading the ketubah, so I guess it works. . . .It's weird though.
We plan on haning a photo of us in the living room, but it won't be HUGE. I don't think the photo will stay permanantly in the living room though. We'd like to have a house that has a formal sitting room someday to use as a reading and music space. The photo will probably go there in the long run. I don't like having pictures of people in the bedroom. Even having photos of us in the bedroom would make me self concious!
we have ours in a glass frame above my jacuzzi tub in our master bathroom...Loooove it!
And it's black and white so it looks very chic. Honestly: I hate having pix in my house or even on my fridge so thats why we did that.
I'm sure when we have kids it'll be a lot different tho!
We have wedding pictures up, but not huge ones. Just a few 5x7s. We will, however, be getting a big family picture to hang over the mantle of my hubs, me, our new baby girl, and our furbaby!
I sorta wish we weren't displaying it in a public place. FH is quite insistant that we hanging a HUGE portrait of yours truly (and just yours truly) over our future mantel. LOL guess he is really just a southern boy at heart. (Seems to be real popular down there.)
I'm definitely having our picture somewhere in a public room! I love pictures, so I have pictures of all my friends, family, whoever in the house. That's why I spent so much on our photographer! But it probably won't be big. Our guest tree will be the focus of the living room (ok we live in a one bedroom apartment so it's the center of the whole house I suppose). Our pictures will be scattered around on the desk or bookshelves.
I hang pictures of my family and friends and all that everywhere so why wouldn't I hang up pictures of my wedding? I mean it isn't going to be like a 5 foot painting of us hanging on the wall, but there will be pictures up. Why did I pay so much for pictures if I wasn't going to put them out for people to see.
We don't have any in our apartment now but once we move and get a house I'm sure we'll display some in the living area.
But they won't be huge and prominent. More like smaller frames on shelves/side tables/etc.
In all seriousness I just don't like them. We have a few small photos around on side tables no one ever looks at... we might add one to that collection but I don't want to waste more money when our photos will be given to us on a cd so they can be put where everyone actually looks at your photos (online).
We will probably put one of our wedding pics somewhere, but not a huge one, just a normal sized picture like 5x7 in a frame. lol
I guess i just don't get why people don't like having pictures of themselves up in their home. Pictures are memories! I love having happy memories displayed around our home, and will definitely have wedding pictures all over the place. I mean, why not? Every time i look at those pictures, it makes me smile, so why not have multiple reasons to smile all over the house.
Two places I would NOT put personal photos: bathrooms (that's weird to me) and guest rooms (cause, ya know, you don't want to stare at people while you try to sleep in their house)
I don't display any photos downstairs so no we wont have any. I have our engagement photos upstairs though and will probably add a wedding photo. A married couple I know has giant photos of themselves ALL OVER their living room and dining room and to me it just seems self absorbed. I don't think there is anything wrong with a photo but I don't really understand why you would need 10 photos of yourself.
@ktisthatbees: I agree! We have a photo collage on our wall in the living room with nothing but our wedding photos (not all are just my husband and I, pics of our family & friends are included.) But everytime I walk by them I smile :) it makes me happy to see those pictures daily.
We don't have any in our living room... I re-decorated our master bedroom and made it our wedding-themed room, for lack of a better way to describe that! We have 3 frames with 3 5x7's each of our formals and our 2 "guest books", a thumbprint tree and a wood slice with signatures. I love it, in the bedroom. It's the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. They defintely make us smile. =D But NO big, giant portraits... especially in the living room... they just wouldn't go with our decor.
I have a canvas print of me walking down the aisle with my dad, as photgraphed from the church balcony, behind us. I love it because A) it looks like art, the church is beautiful, and it's totally something you might see in a random picture and B) EVERYONE who came to our wedding is in the photo, standing in the pews. It's like a birdseye view so you have to get close or know where you were sitting, but I love looking at it and seeing all our friends and family.
I haven't put any others up yet, although I do want to do a collage sort of thing. I can't tell if I'm just being lazy or if I don't really want to do it. Interesting question!
We will definitely put at least one 6X8 or 8X10 framed pic in the bookcase of our living room. It won't distract from the art in the room, and we will most likely choose a candid shot rather than a posed one.
I don't think we'll put up a poster but I'll probably have at least one wedding picture on display somewhere. I have a 5x7 of one of our engagement pictures that I loved so likely something similar to that.
I have photos all over my house -- it's more candid pottery barn style than old-fashioned "here's everyone's senior photo in 8x10 gold frame" LOL. So, yes, we'll mix a few wedding photos in. But no, I'm not displaying a 16x20 of us as the main element on the wall in a living room :)
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