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Slide-Shows: How do you feel about them?

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Do you typically like these or think they''re cheesy?

And if you''re planning to have one at your wedding, what kind are you doing and when/where will it be displayed?

I''ve seen a few different variations:

-Photos of the couple in a collage over the guestbook.
-A tv/vcr in the corner of the ballroom playing the slide-show on repeat (wasn''t a fan).
-A projector that played a slide-show while guests ate. This was one FI made for my FSIL''s wedding this past June. It was meant to be in the background, but everyone was enthralled -- there were laughs and tears through the whole show. It was so sweet.
 
We had a slideshow play at the rehearsal dinner, then my SIL and BIL (who organized it) decided to also play it as the wedding on a projector. I appreciated the effort, don''t get me wrong, but they turned it on after dinner, so it wasn''t really background and it took up a lot of time when we already on a time crunch.
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So that''s my experience with it. I love watching them though, they''re always so funny and cute! I think it''s best done during dinner.
 
I went to a wedding where they had a slideshow during the first dances... father daughter dance with father daughter pictures and so on. I thought it was really sweet and really broke up the monotony of just watching people dance for ten minutes.
 
I''m not a fan.

If you do decide to do one, spend a good amount of time on it and make sure it is nice, Otherwise it just looks like a scrolling screen saver on a computer.

And PLEASE make sure you test it multiple times before hand. Every sinlge one that I have seen done, has restarted accidently, or the music stopped to soon, or the laptop they were palying on hibernated, etc, etc, etc. They never went correct the first time, and it ruins the entire thing, IMO.
 
i like slideshows during dinner (and not interrupting dance time!). They are always cute and funny. But I''m a nostalgia person. My group of friends has sort of done the projector slideshow to death though, so i''m opting for something different.

for my wedding, guests arrive a half hour before the ceremony so i''m setting up a table in the area where they''ll gather and drink champagne before the ceremony. i''ll be framing a pic of me and FI from every year that we''ve been together and noting the year on the frame. We''ve been together 14 years so there will be some funny ones in there for sure from when we were in high school.

point is, if you like the idea of the slideshow but don''t want to do a slideshow necessarily, then there are other ways to get the job done!
 
Blech!
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I don''t like them. They''re usually played to bad music and go on FAR TOO LONG. If it was a sweet and simple: here''s where we were then and where we are now with a 15 slide maximum then it might be okay. I''m sure there''s a way to do it with class but I haven''t see it yet.
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I''ve only seen this done once, and I really didn''t like it! I think that the way you describe it in number 3 would have been fine, but they didn''t present it until after dinner and after the speeches and after all of that, the A/V equipment was still not ready so we all sat around for 5 or 10 minutes before the slideshow, then the slideshow which was really long and it replayed them saying their vows. (didn''t we *just* finish watching them say their vows??) Oy it was just such an ordeal by the time it was done and the bar was reopened, the cocktail hour energy and party mood was just totally gone for me and it was really hard to get back into the swing of things.


I guess in a shorter way, I think they are fine, if they don''t disrupt the flow of the evening. As a guest at a wedding, I want to dance, drink, and celebrate with the couple!
 
I love seeing them. You get to see the couple as kids and together. I have only seen them played during dinner which is a nice thing to watch while everyone is paying attention. When else are you going to get to see the cute couple and their journey together. I love it!
 
Short and in the background can be really nice. The only time I don''t like it is when I have to sit and watch a lengthy show with nothing else to do (like eat dinner, or go around and talk).

My friend had a board with younger pictures of both of them, near the cake table, which was really nice - people wandered over and looked at it in their own time.
 
We''re doing a short one in memory of my father during dinner.
 
I love slide shows! We had one at our wedding, we showed it during the meal so it wasn''t really a front-and-center sort of thing. It was 6 or 7 minutes long, I believe, and we were sure to put pictures with everyone in attendance in the show.

However, I only love the shorter ones that have pictures of the couple AND other people in them. I''ve seen some LONG slide shows that feature hundreds of pictures of the couple posing the same way but just in front of different backgrounds. Boring! I also dislike it when the couple puts a lot of pictures of them kissing in the show, very uncomfortable.

Short and sweet is the way to go, for sure.
 
Normally the badly done ones are kinda awkward, but I LOVED the amazing one my friends made using animoto.com. It was shown during dinner and it worked out perfectly. I think you can view a sample one on the website, it''s what we''re using too!
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The first thing I thought of was that movie 27 dresses
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So long as it's not like that!
 
We didn''t have one but my sister and BIL had a slideshow. It was played (on a projector, set to music) the day after their wedding, during brunch (at a restaurant). It was fun to watch!
 
I think my SIL is putting together a slide show. She mentioned it, but I have no idea when and where it will be played. I''m OK with it. I like slide shows
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... and I think she''s using a bunch of pictures from our childhood... yikes. But it should be cute!
 
If it''s meant to be the only thing someone''s doing at that time, then it''s got to be short - 5 minutes tops. I''ve been to a few weddings of not-so-close family friends and the slideshow lasted 15-20 minutes. We couldn''t talk, get a drink, use the washroom etc. It was incredibly boring.

I don''t mind if it''s in the background - you get to choose when you want to go over and look at the slideshow, and you have the option to only watch a portion of it.
 
IMO, fine when they are just there but not fine when guests are expected to pay full attention.
 
Thanks for the input
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I agree with most of you, that making everyone stop what they're doing to watch a full-on show is really annoying.

The one FI made for his sister was probably 8 minutes long, and like I said it was played during dinner. The DJ (same one we booked) played the best music! One song that I distinctly remember was "Over the Rainbow" (the one that sounds Jamaican). It started with baby pics and went from there. They had plenty of pictures mixed in with family and friends that attended the wedding, so that was hit.

We'll probably select our own music. I think we're going to use "The Luckiest" by Ben Folds (if we don't end up using it as our first dance). It makes me cry!

Good point about the quality, Meresal. Luckily FI is a computer engineer, so I know it'll run perfectly!
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yssie, I can't remember what part in 27 dresses you're talking about. Guess I'll just have to watch it tonight!
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