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I've always wondered this to! I thought I was the only one.
I'm in love with our e-pics, and I rotate my profile pic all the time with different shots. It probably drives my friends nuts, but whatever. FI's profile is one of him and a extremely expensive and sexy porsche. I'm keep tellings him to put up our e-pics, but he won't. I don't get it! He looks amazing in our e-pics and the pic he has is pretty sweet, but its not a pro pic.
I sound ridiculous, I'll hush now 
Ah! I had a coworker , a guy who posted a wedding pic of him and wifey together for a week, then changed back to his old profile pic. His wife however has had it for months! :D
I dunno, I've noticed actually that ALL the recently married men I have on Facebook changed their profile pictures to a wedding photo!
I don't know... Maybe guys are just less into photographs? I know my brother changed his pic after he got married, so some guys do it!
D'S profile picture is of us at a baseball game from 3 years ago. It has never changed haha. It doesn't bother me, I think it's kind of cute.
My DH has a wedding picture as his profile pic. I don't know which one of us changed it but its still up 6 months later (and hes holding my bouquet in the pic haha).
I've thought about this too! I have quite a few recently married friends and none of the guys have wedding pictures as their profile pic but all of the ladies do! DH's profile picture is a picture from our honeymoon but he never had a wedding picture one. I don't mind :)
My husband hardly ever changes his Facebook profile picture. He's only had 4 profile pictures since he joined Facebook about 7 years ago.
His current picture is of us parasailing on our honeymoon. I think a lot of guys like "action shots" or "casual pictures" rather than "ooooh, look how we were all dressed up and pretty!".
(His previous profile pictures were: him holding a shotgun and some dead pheasants, him and the car he bought right after college, and a picture from when we first started dating).
I think it depends on the person. Personally, I rarely ever put a picture of me and my FI as my profile picture because it just seems kind of weird to put up a picture of someone other than myself. And my FI hasn't changed his facebook picture in over 2 years, so I doubt he'd be inclined to put up one from our wedding or whatever (we haven't done engagement pics yet, who knows - maybe those will inspire a change).
It can be a little grating to be constantly reminded of a person's relationship, and it can also seem weird both to the person and outsiders for a life to be seemingly all about one's relationship. Perhaps most of these guys you know just prefer to be known as themselves and not themselves-and-the-wife, yannow?
I think some guys just really don't care as much about their profile pics. My guy had the same profile pic up for over a year and only changed it when a friend teased him saying he looked creepy in it. :) And he's so out of it he ended up using my profle pic for his. Friend of ours got married and he changed his profile pic to a pic from his wedding but he's similar to my guy. He won't change things unless they've been up for a year and is prompted. I'm sure his wife gave him a friendly nudge. ;)
Interesting - because practically all the married men I know changed their pic to a wedding pic after they got married, including my husband!
DH used to have a wedding photo as his profile pic, but he changed it to a picture of us on Halloween. Mine's still a wedding photo, but only because I don't have a better picture of myself.
He changed his picture to one of our e-pics as soon as we got them. He changed it a few weeks ago to the two of us on Halloween, though. I have no doubt that he'll use a wedding picture as his profile pic for a loooooooooong time, though.
@jocember - Your post intrigues me. The part "It can be a little grating to be constantly reminded of a person's relationship, and it can also seem weird both to the person and outsiders for a life to be seemingly all about one's relationship."
I'm curious how a profile picture with someone can be "grating" and "like your whole life is about your relationship". That's a perspective I've never heard or thought about before.
I don't think I'll be using my wedding photo as my profile pic - if I do, maybe just for a day or two. I use FB with friends, but also with a significant number of professional contacts. I likely wouldn't have a wedding photo up because I don't define myself professionally by my romantic relationships or marital status. I'll definitely post photo to an album, though!
Perhaps part of why many women use that photo as their profile pic is because wedding planning - which falls on large part on them - took so much energy and the wedding is seen as the culmination of a huge event? There's pride in the success of their big day.
There's also the aspect that many women have, since they were little girls, looked forward to getting married and therefore the day is not just a personal celebration, but an important coming-of-age marker for women in a way that is may not be for men.
My husband is really private. He doesn't have fb, but he has twitter and the only pics he puts up are of the fish he catches or his beer brewing. That's just how he is.
Hmmmmm.... interesting. Out of our recently married friends it's about half and half, but one guy & girl neither changed their pic.
DH used 2 wedding pics for awhile, and then recently changed again. I had one wedding pic up longer than him but changed to a bump pic once I got around to taking one. lol
@abbyful: I think this is like when you have a friend who ceases to have an existance that isn't Friend + Significant Other. It's like her life is now a unit, when it's okay to be two people who happily coexist together, rather than are completely codependent.
I couldn't really tell you. DH is not the norm, his profile picture is one of our wedding pics.
@abbyful: It annoys me a little when people have profile pictures that include other people (same goes for babies). In my case I think its more of an OCD thing. All I can think is "NO, that is not Lucy its Lucy AND Tom, or no, that is Lucy's BABY"
I've noticed a lot of men use their wedding photos, too. I Facebook chatted DH to tell him our teasers were up, and he had changed his pic to the same one I had:).
@LGenz: I'm like that when someone uses their childs pic as theirs.....totally bugs me! But I think it's okay as long as the person is acutally IN the photo.
@jocember: i somewhat agree. I am a firm believer that your facebook account is YOUR account, not a couples account. I therefore only put pictures of me as my profile pic, not me and my FI. I don't find it infuriating or grating, though, just a little strange when people only put pics of them and their SO as profile pics.
@zagora - I get that more from people's posts than their profile picture. I do have some Facebook friends that all their post for their status is stuff like:
I'm so lucky to have Jane/John Doe in my life!
Going to a movie tonight with Jane/John Doe, my one and only forever!
Jane/John Doe makes my life complete. I love him/her so much!
Jane/John Doe, you mean the world to me! I can't imagine life without you!
It's been 2 years, 5 days, and 4 hours since Jane/John Doe came into my life. I wasn't alive before then, he/she woke up my heart and made my soul sing!
Etc. That's ALL they post. And these are people in the 20s and some in their 30s! (Not anyone I really hang out with, just casual acquaintances.)
A lot of the guys I know have, but I had to go check my husband's to see. Turns out he still has the same picture he's always had. It's like 6 or 7 years old at this point. I think some guys are like that. They pick one picture they're happy with and go with it pretty much forever.
I know a couple where the husband has a wedding portrait of himself as his FB profile picture. His wife has a wedding picture (which I took) of her and her dad dancing. Her profile picture hasn't changed since the wedding well over a year ago. They have a kid and don't put the kid in profile pictures either. I stopped trying to figure them out a long time ago.
Hahaha, I am totally guilty of this. I have apicture up right now of my son and our xmas tree this year. Maybe It's because I am obsessed with him though ( in the healthiest way possible).
@abbyful: I'm curious how a profile picture with someone can be "grating" and "like your whole life is about your relationship". That's a perspective I've never heard or thought about before.
Sorry, perhaps grating was the wrong word choice -- I think I just meant that some people I see make their entire facebook dedicated to their relationship, from pictures posted only being them and that person to all of their posts being about that person (one girl from high school used to sign every post - including the ones about her grandma dying - with "<3 <3 <3 michael brady cook MUAH love ya babe!"). Trust me, I don't believe at all that posting a picture of you & your SO is annoying in itself, I guess it depends on the situation. I've posted a few of my own from time to time of the two of us together when I thought it was an especially nice picture.
I don't know why guys do this. I've seen a good mix of both though, where the guy has a picture from the wedding and there are others that don't.
My FI doesnt' have a picture of me up as his profile one, so I don't have one of him. Poo on him!
no idea but i've noticed this as well- my husband did, but it took him a few months and hasnt changed it since.
Funny that you say this now, as I just asked DH why he hasn't changed his a few days ago. I have had a wedding photo up since the wedding and his is still the one he had before that. I was wondering the same thing!
Yeah my husband put up a pic of us right away from the wedding, but he generally puts pics of us up on his FB profile. I did a pic of just me mainly b/c my artsy friend said to do it. He's like REALLY into having pics of us like everywhere though (as his computer background, on his credit card, etc).
I have noticed this too... DH changed his pic to a pic of us from our wedding, its still up but its been less than two weeks we will see when he changes it LOL
I feel that way about kid pics too when the parent isn't in them!
Anyway, DH's pic is a wedding pic... For over a year now, lol. He just isn't inclined to change it. I on the other hand change 1-2x a month as new events happen!
Guys aren't into weddings the same way that women are. That's perfectly normal. It doesn't mean that they don't love their wives or that they were miserable at the wedding. it has nothing to do with whether a guy is into photography or not.
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Many of our friends got married this year and most brides change their profile picture to their wedding photo but I notice most men don't. Why is that?