It’s about Time!

Remember how not too long ago I finally ordered my wedding prints after being married for almost two years?  (In April of this year, to be exact.)  If you will remember, it took much gentle prodding from my photographer, (the talented Mindy of MK Best Photography) but I had finally ordered our large wedding prints.  I was excited to see them when they arrived because they turned out beautifully. Unfortunately, the excitement soon faded as I got busy with baby things and the box sat gathering dust until I recently realized that at the rate I was going, our child would be a teenager before I ever did anything with those prints.

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Part of my hesitation was that I had no idea how many pictures to actually put up.  Do I create a shrine, so to speak, in our hallway?  Do I save all personal photos for the bedroom only, or do I include a nice large portrait in the formal living room?  After much deliberation, I settled on two large prints – one for the hallway and one for our bedroom.   I just needed to get the frames.

Thankfully, Michael’s was having one of their fantastic sales and I was able to get 16×20 frames for 40% off (plus an additional 25% with coupon) which meant that this $50.00 frame was only $22.50.

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It sure ended up looking pretty, didn’t it?

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This frame for our bedroom didn’t fare so well, unfortunately.

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I think I pushed on the glass when I was putting it together and I ended up with a crack running straight down the middle.

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So for now, the picture is glass-less, but at least it’s done!

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And hey – it only took me two-plus years to do it!

How many wedding pictures do you have displayed in your home?  Where did you hang them?

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Carolina Baker - October 19, 2009 - 5:56 am

I really like that picture of you and the hubby sitting down. We have a couple. My favorite which is right outside our bedroom is one where we are dancing together.
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The Wife of Odie - October 19, 2009 - 6:31 am

we have one over our bed. it’s pretty self-centered. i put it there in a haste thinking i’d put something else up and haven’t. it’s pretty awesome to show guests.
.-= The Wife of Odie´s last blog ..choose you this day =-.

Tiffany - October 19, 2009 - 6:43 am

Omg could your pictures be any cuter?? Beautiful! And it only took me two years to actually change my NAME, haha, so I think you’re doing pretty good.

Jessica @ How Sweet - October 19, 2009 - 6:58 am

This makes me feel so much better because I’ve now been married for a year and haven’t ordered prints!

Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com - October 19, 2009 - 7:48 am

We have one on Donald’s nightstand in our bedroom and that’s it. Unfortuneately, my husband loves clutter, and since that’s HIS space, you pretty much need a bulldozer to see the image lol.

As for the baby – when they’re brand new andsleep all the time, you get little sleep smiles. That totally makes it worth it =)
.-= Sarah @ BecomingSarah.com´s last blog ..Waking baby, adoring mother. =-.

Amy Deschamp - October 19, 2009 - 7:52 am

I have to admit that people might think I am a narasacist(spelling?) if they visit our home–in our small apartment we have 8 downstairs and 2 in our bedroom. Plus we just did some trash the dress so there will be more. Also downstairs we have some family shots from our wedding. My thoughts are we paid a lot for our pictures so I am going to display them–plus we don’t have kids yet so what else am I going to put up. I love the ones you chose as large prints. We only have one that large of our wedding party which I love.
.-= Amy Deschamp´s last blog ..A personal note =-.

Janet - October 19, 2009 - 8:00 am

Today, after 24-years of marriage, there is only one 5X7 photo of us on our wedding day displayed in the armoire that also holds the television in the living room. A room we rarely use in our home.

We only knew each other two days before he left Kansas (got out of the Army) to go back home to Arlington, VA and my family left Kansas the morning after our second meeting, and first date, to move to California – so when he called and asked me to marry him a week to the day after we met, I knew there could be nothing traditional about the way we would be married.

Neither of us wanted to live together before we married, so 3 weeks after he invited me to come live in Arlington, we left his foster parents’ house (where I had a room in the basement and he was in his room in the attic) on a Friday the 13th (December 1985) and flew to Reno where we met my parents and were married the following morning.

Photos of us were done by the staff at the (typical, Vegas-style) wedding, “store”; so they are poor, at best. Still, there we are, two kids (19 and 25) I hardly remember any more – me in a rented dress, looking surprised by everything happening around me, and him in his (also rented) tuxedo, looking just as bewildered by what we’d just done.

Nevertheless, there is a wedding photo album full of these same-posed photos, just in different sizes – and I wouldn’t trade them!

I think as life changes, (and we get older) so do the photos in our home – much like the decor – you begin adding photos of the kids, vacations and special occasions as they come and change them out with the next birthday or growth spurt.

It’s just life. No right or wrong, better or worse. It is just what it is.

Your photos are Beautiful! Every girl’s dream…

Andrea - October 19, 2009 - 8:03 am

Great Pictures! I hope mine turn out that well!

Joanna - October 19, 2009 - 8:13 am

Love the photos!

We have one. On the fireplace. With the other photos from our siblings’ weddings.
.-= Joanna´s last blog ..Not Finished =-.

Kristina P. - October 19, 2009 - 8:35 am

Gorgeous! We just had professional pictures taken yesterday. All we need is at least one good picture!
.-= Kristina P.´s last blog ..It’s a Hard Dog Life =-.

Kate - October 19, 2009 - 9:30 am

Our wedding photographer gave us a box of 4×6 prints of all of the several hundred photos he took (in lieu of a book of contact sheets, everything else was online). So I’ve put 10 or so of them in frames around the house. You’d think we JUST got married, though, since those are some of the only pics we have up. But it was three years ago! I guess that means I need to start printing and framing NON wedding photos :)
.-= Kate´s last blog ..He Says…Time Management =-.

Jill - October 19, 2009 - 10:27 am

Both photos are beautiful!! Now just make sure you get glass for the bedroom photo! :) I’ve done the exact thing…broken the glass on very large frames. Unfortunately it has happened more than once!

Jessi - October 19, 2009 - 10:53 am

In our first apartment I filled all the frames we were given with wedding photos right away. No really large prints, just some 5×7 and 8×10. There were a few on our book shelf, a few in the hall, and a couple in the bedroom. When we moved into our new house and decided to hang all our photos together on the wall going up the stairs I was shocked to see how many wedding photos we had framed and had to edit. Now there is a nice mix of family photos, wedding photos and photos from our travels.

Laura - October 19, 2009 - 11:09 am

I just got married in late May, and I still haven’t done this! Yikes! I definitely need to kick myself and make it happen before it gets away from me. You just get so caught up in all the newly married parts of life, you know? :) Beautiful pictures, by the way.
.-= Laura´s last blog ..Fall Motivation =-.

Serene - October 19, 2009 - 1:05 pm

Very cute. I actually have no wedding pictures hanging up and I’ve been married six years! Just haven’t gotten around to it. Plus, my wedding wasn’t exactly my best looking day. I should NEVER have done my own hair! =)
.-= Serene´s last blog ..I love books =-.

Nicole - October 19, 2009 - 3:09 pm

I’m currently putting together my sister’s wedding album (she was married in August) and it’s been so much fun! The sad thing: I haven’t put together my wedding album! I was also married in August…….20 years ago!!!!! I used to have a few wedding pictures and our wedding announcement hanging in our home. After 7 years of marriage we traded the pictures of ourselves for LOTS & LOTS of pictures of our first born, then second born, then third! I manage to have their photos in every room of the house. I had pictures of all my boys taken when they were a few months old in a big stock pot with lots of veggies around them. I know that’s not for everyone, but they did turn out really cute and now find a place on the plant shelf in my kitchen. Until this little mancub is here – enjoy your gorgeous wedding photos!
.-= Nicole´s last blog ..FALL BAKING KICKED OFF! =-.

the domestic fringe - October 19, 2009 - 3:54 pm

I LOVE your pictures! I don’t have any hung right now. I’ve always had tons of photos in every room, but now I have no personal photos hanging in my house. I’m trying to decide where to put some without going overboard. I’ve been thinking about ordering a handful of photos of my kids done in sepia and then doing a little wall collage in the living room. I’m just not decided yet. I do like it when other people have photos out in their homes because I love looking at pictures.

-FringeGirl
.-= the domestic fringe´s last blog ..Growls of Congrats =-.

Mindee@ourfrontdoor - October 19, 2009 - 5:35 pm

Um . . .one? I used to have my bridal portrait in our room but after a while it started to look like a baby picture (relatively speaking) so I took it down.

Yours are lovely!
.-= Mindee@ourfrontdoor´s last blog ..You Should Really Go Look =-.

Heather @critter chronicles - October 19, 2009 - 9:34 pm

We’ve been married for eight years now (holy cow!). In the years before our daughter was born we had quite a few wedding pictures up, but none framed as beautifully as yours. We got married before digital photography, if you can believe it, but our photographer included all the negatives as part of the deal. It wasn’t until we’d been married for 5 years that I scanned them all and made an actual album.

Now we have just one wedding photo up in the house, in our bedroom. There are a few scattered pre-marriage photos around, but the rest are all of our kids and our family.
.-= Heather @critter chronicles´s last blog ..Father/Son Campout: A Guest Post from Tony =-.

Janet - October 20, 2009 - 5:09 am

I’ve been married almost fifteen years and have never put up any wedding photos. I did arrange them all in an album though. Does that count? The album is stuck away in a drawer somewhere.

Tabitha Blue - October 20, 2009 - 7:29 am

Oh these are gorgeous!!! I love that one hanging in your bedroom… glass-less and all. How beautiful. Hope you and your ‘bump’ are doing well!! :)
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TraciJ - October 20, 2009 - 7:43 am

Love your photos!

We have one that hangs in our bedroom and I also display our album on a table in our living room and we’ve been married for 14 years! =)

olivia - October 20, 2009 - 7:53 am

i am crazy in love with photos. i love the memories. so, of course, you will find pics on the walls and shelves in every room of my house. none of them are professional, not even the wedding pics, but i love them all the same. i have even enlarged some of my own photos for living room wall art. why buy art when a girl can make her own?! i think some people just get into pictures more than others. doesn’t mean the moments are any less special, we all just have different priorities. i just happen to be one of those people who takes her camera everywhere. your photos and frames are beautiful. good for you!
.-= olivia´s last blog ..Not me! Monday =-.

WebSavyMom - October 20, 2009 - 7:55 am

–>We have one in our hallway that has autographs around it and one small one in our bedroom. We got married in Jamaica so there weren’t a ton of pictures but the ones we have are Beautiful!

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Kim - October 21, 2009 - 4:46 am

love those!!!

we have a monster 16×20 or something that has yet to be hung in our hallway (but is leaning on the wall) & we have been here 2 yrs +2 months now :) then we have 2 5x7s one sitting on my side table & the other on the shelf under the tv in the living room.

we keep talking of updating our big one as we’ve been married 12.5 yrs but really other than aging we have nothing to show for it (no kids) so not sure what the point is. :)
.-= Kim´s last blog ..WHOOOPS! =-.

cher - October 21, 2009 - 2:36 pm

we have none…and as a matter of fact, we actually don’t have any taken. but then again, we really didn’t have a wedding either. :)

we were realizing the other day that we have very few pictures together and on top of that, we have none displayed. we are going to have to fix that.
.-= cher´s last blog ..it’s that time of year =-.

Anna - October 21, 2009 - 7:50 pm

We have a bunch of wedding pictures as well as our engagement pictures scattered around our apartment.

We don’t have kids yet, but I’ve vowed that I won’t let the kids’ photos take over! It’s important to remember that you are still a couple first and foremost, you know? :)

Heidi - October 22, 2009 - 6:22 pm

OK, I need some guidance regarding this. As you already know, I moonlight as a wedding photographer. The woman whose wedding I shot back in APRIL said she wanted prints and even ordered FIVE albums from me. However, when I told her she needed to specify what prints she wanted in the album, she never responded to my email. So I sent her a second email and she responded, “OK. I’ll select them and email you tomorrow.”

She never did and now almost five months have passed. I ordered the albums from etsy (and paid for them myself knowing she would cover the cost after I finished assembling them.) Essentially I paid $300 on albums that have sat in a kitchen closet since May. At this point I don’t even care if she no longer wants the albums. In fact, I’d like to use the albums myself for my own wedding pictures. I feel weird about it. Do I just use the albums and let it go? Or do I shoot her ONE more email and ask her if she’s interested?

Honestly, I don’t even want to assemble them anymore. I’m too busy. I’m afraid if I email her a THIRD time she’ll actually follow through. Help!
What’s the etiquette in this situation?

Thanks Tab!
.-= Heidi´s last blog ..Want to get dismissed from jury duty? Possess cognitive skills. =-.

Angela - October 28, 2009 - 3:44 pm

Come Friday Oct 30, dear husband and I will be married 16 years. We have 2 wedding photographs displayed in our house – both in the same room, the formal living room. One is my formal portrait (hanging on the wall) and the other is a 5×7 taken at our reception (in a frame sitting on the piano – this is part of a gallery as we have framed photos of my parents, his parents, his brother, and his sister from their weddings as well).

Alicia - November 13, 2009 - 2:56 pm

After reading this, I feel so much better about the fact that I just ordered my album a week ago and our 2nd anniversary is next month!
Since we’re TTC, I’m glad we ordered them now because after we have a baby, I know we will take a back burner. I might as well start paying the photographer now for all the baby pics we will get :-)

honesteagurl - November 17, 2009 - 9:53 pm

nice pictures! have a few printed pics from our wedding earlier this year around the house. just now getting our ‘hard copies’- well not really. we are actually really disappointed with how our pictures turned out :(

hoping to take some other ones some day….

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