Social Media + Our Wedding

Confession: I love social media.

That's not so much of a confession, is it?

But it wasn't until my wedding day/right after the wedding that I really upped that level of love for social media.

Being able to see our wedding through our family and friend's eyes immediately following the reception was so neat. After Patrick and I picked up our pizza from Mellow Mushroom and got all of those pesky bobby pins out of my hair, we thoroughly enjoyed going through all of our friends' snapchat stories.

We got to relive our first dance.

We got to see some fun snaps from our wedding party.

This one from the reception might have been one of my favorites & caused me to bust out laughing.

We got to see everyone using our snapchat filter {because yes, we definitely had one of those} and we laughed so much at what people had posted. It's also how we knew that half the wedding reception stayed out past 3am... including my parents.

The next morning came Instagram & Facebook.

Sooo many pictures.

 {Side Note: the above pictures were posted in a secret FB group for Patrick's Mom's side of the family to keep those family members unable to attend up to date with all of our wedding day fun... which I thought was an awesome idea!}

A FULL video of our first dance {which I have no idea how to post here...}

A sneak peek from our wedding photographer.

Cute behind the scenes pictures from before our ceremony.

& then we even had a blog post from a bridesmaid!

Social media allowed us to view our wedding from so many different angles and from so many different points of view. I loved it. I absolutely loved reliving the entire day through everyone else. Patrick and I talked a few times leading up to our day that we wished we could just attend our wedding. We knew that the whole weekend was going to fly by and we wished that we could have spent more time with our guests.

So a big THANK YOU to everyone who attended our wedding that shared some of our wedding day! We love, love, loved seeing our wedding day through your eyes!

I still stand by the "no pictures in the church" rule because hey, the bride & groom more likely than not would prefer all of their guests to be actively engaged in the ceremony rather than messing with phones/cameras. Plus, they've probably paid a professional to take care of all of the photographs! But other than that? Break 'em out. Share all the pictures.

{unless you're a lucky one with one of these shots & then you definitely save it until after the wedding!}