Framing wedding photos are never as straightforward as picking your favourite and running with it. There’s just too many to choose from.
Did you know a wedding photographer will snap hundreds of pictures every hour throughout the day? By the end of the big day, they will have captured thousands of snaps. That’s why it’s generally a bad idea to ask a wedding photographer for all their RAW images. They will send you a flash drive with terabytes of digital files that you likely won’t have a clue where to start. That’s why they cull their photos to separate the duds from the keepers then present clients only the photos that meet high quality standards.
Having a photographer cull your photos is a good thing… Can you imagine having to decide which ones to keep from a digital archive of 4,000+ pictures?
Wedding photographers save you the trouble by ditching the duds like the one’s that’s been photo-bombed by Uncle Joe, blurred images, and it prevents you from receiving a couple of hundred photos of the same key event like the ring exchange or just people dancing at the reception but few photos of much else.
There’s a good chance that you will never be able to frame and display all your wedding photos at the same time, however, so long as you have the RAW digital files, you will be able to change your prints.
How to Get More Wedding Photos into a Large Display without Crowding
To have the most on display, it’s best to break things down into what photos demand the attention of a singular frame and which ones can be printed to a smaller size and included in a collage frame.
Singular larger frames are best for wedding photos with multiple people. The photos that require single frames will be the easiest to pick out. Those are the family photos, and those may be split too depending on the size of the wedding party. It’s not uncommon to have an immediate family photo and an extended family photo, then perhaps another whole family photo. Other wedding photos for singular frames would be the couples close up and perhaps a couple’s portrait.
Within every collection of wedding photo is often enough pictures to create a timeline collage display. Other things you can add yourself could be the ‘something old, new, borrowed, and blue’ items, the exchanging of rings, the first kiss, the first dance, bouquet toss, and the wedding toast.
The very last piece of a wedding collage display would be the exit photo. That could be the newlyweds riding off in a Cadillac with the ‘just married’ sign on the back, or it could be a send-off ceremony style held outside with wedding confetti, fake snow, sparklers, streamers or any number of send-off ideas.
In all cases, weddings have loads of photos taken. Too much to cram into the one photo frame. The most prominent of photos such as whole family photos are best displayed in a large single frame, whereas timeline events that tell the story can be printed at a smaller size to fit into a collage frame letting you get more photos on display and with the added bonus of the pictures being arranged into a storyline for the big day.