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S/O of my diploma post: What about a wedding portrait?
FYI, expect a bunch of posts like this coming up, because we're moving and i'm mentally arranging our possessions in the new house. lol If I can't find a spot for it, it's not moving with us.
Anyway, what about wedding portraits? When are they just cheesy to have still hanging up where people can see them? (or do they never get cheesy?)
One of my fav shots of us is custom framed in a (humongous) beautiful frame. I think it's 16x20 in a large frame (it has sort of a double framing w/velvet in between, very hard to describe).
I had thought of doing a row of framed pics up our first staircase, something like in this post but with 4 or 5 single larger frames, and use our large wedding portrait, a large framed portrait of DD (its 12x18 plus the frame), a framed watercolor of our first dog (it's 8x10 in a larger frame), a framed photo of our current dog, and possibly one more framed portrait (we dont have a current family photo, so maybe a spaceholder for one or an enlargement of a picture that I had taken of DD and our dog last summer).
If I dont do that I guess I can put the wedding portrait in our bedroom. lol
Re: S/O of my diploma post: What about a wedding portrait?
I'm not keen on wedding photos being hung on the wall in public spaces, sorry. I don't mind a small one being on a side table for newlyweds, but hanging on the wall or overly large ones are just cheesy for me. If you want to display it, I'd put it up in the bedroom.
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I hate seeing huge wedding photos. I think it's cheesy and it kind of makes me uncomfortable. I don't know why.
We have kind of a photo gallery in our stairwell. It has a small picture of us coming back up the aisle right after we were married (like 4x6), a picture of us kissing earlier in the day (square, 5x5 I think), and then the biggest wedding photo is an 8x10 of the whole ceremony site while the flower girl is walking down the aisle, still in a smallish frame. But those are mixed in with vacation photos, pictures of us as kids, a couple of prints, pics of our pets, pics of family, etc.
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I agree with this. It's your house, do what you like.
We have a 5x7 framed and hung in with our kids pictures in our gallery wall in the stairwell. Other than that, we have a series of 5 small (3x4) image transfers framed in our bedroom. Even framed (a couple grouped so they are in 3 frames), they are pretty small and unassuming. I love them because I love the artistic quality of the image transfers - and I love how young and unerringly we were LMAO!
I have never liked large wedding portraits, for some reason it makes me uncomfortable. But I do like my small little ones, so they will stay. Do what you love and what works for your home!
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I tend to think of wedding portraits (actually I feel the same about large quantities of family photos) as being something that should be in less public spaces like hallways and bedrooms....and staircases.
I guess I might feel differently if we had large rooms with a lot of wall space to fill, but anything big would really look AW-ish in our house with small rooms, since anything on the wall is pretty 'in your face'.
i have the 'awky' feeling as most of you already noted so in order to still display a pretty picture I have one or two that are "far away" shots so it's not all "bride all up in yo face".
we got married with a nice scenic background so it's more of a landscape shot with just barely discernable people that happen to be getting married on the side. Hopefully people won't find that too offputting
I don't understand this philosophy because your house is not a public space, it's your private home.
We have an 8x10 wedding portrait in our living room and we also have a gallery wall in the living room of all our pets. We get compliments all the time on the gallery wall. The wall is the first wall you see when you walk into the house, so if we go with the public space philosophy, all of these would be prime public space.
Looking at the wedding portrait and the pet photos makes me smile every time I see them and that's what I want the art in my house to do.
For me, I think it's about the difference between a portrait and art. I don't fully understand it, but for some reason, I wouldn't hang a regular bride and groom portrait in my house. But wedding photographers these days are artists and I've seen some amazing shots that I would be happy to see in someone's home. Often, they're not focused on the bride and groom's face. Think of some of the gorgeous siggy shots on here, for instance. In our old apartment we had two 8x10s from our wedding -- one was a black and white of us walking away in a park hand in hand and the other was dh dipping me. I think b + w tends to stand the test of time better often. It's like portraits get dated quickly or something.
I know a lot of people don't share my philosophy....I guess I don't really understand the need to fill all of the walls with photographs of people that you see all the time. (shrug)
I guess I just want some spaces to reflect other aspects of our lives and interests too. The things that reflect who we are as a family aren't necessarily visible to others in photographs, but I can show them that in other ways that make them feel it when they are in our home. Just because I love to look at art that makes me happy, it doesn't mean that I don't love my family.
Family is important to me, but I don't need to be surrounded by pictures of them to love them or remember them. I do enjoy family photos here and there around the house, and I love to look through old photos from time to time, but I think of family all the time, because everything else reminds me of them constantly.
I think a master bedroom's a great place for a wedding portrait.
I think a living room's great for, like year #1 of marriage, and then ok again once you hit year #25 and onward, by which time it's a classic. In between, it can be a little look at me! I'm so pretty!