Catherine Scott: Should we really be copying Kimberley Walsh in banning friends taking photos at our wedding?

Apparently we are becoming so obsessed with social media one up man ship that a growing number of people are asking people not to take photos. Indeed they are following in the footsteps of Kimberley Walsh who supplied a sticker to go over the lens of the camera’s on people’s phones during her recent nuptuals in Barbados to Justin Scott.

While The Girls Aloud star was protecting the reported six figure deal she had done with a glossy mag, it is hard to see why us mere mortals would need to take such drastic action.

The fear is that wedding guests will post unflattering ones of the bride and groom on social media. If you have the type of friends that would do that on your big day then my first question is are they friends at all and what on earth are they doing at your wedding?

New research reveals that 45 per cent of people would consider asking guests to wait until the day after they tied the knot to post pictures online.

The survey, commissioned by Hallmark Hotels, found that unflattering photos showing up online was more of a wedding day worry than whether the groom turns up, the rings go missing or the food is awful. And while half of those questioned wouldn’t dream of posting unattractive photos of the happy couple, the other half don’t see it as a problem.

What is the world coming to? Have we become so self-absorbed and obsessed that looking a bit of a berk on Facebook is all that is important to us? Okay, so on my wedding day hardly anyone had the technology, or the inclination to take photos of me on their phones or consider uploading them onto the internet.

We did provide everyone with a disposable camera, how old fashioned I hear you gasp, which we then had to send off to be processed before getting the hysterical and progressively more drunken pictures back. Oh they were the good old days. The funnier the pictures the more likely they were to make it into the alternative wedding album.

But not today’s bride and groom. They seem to want help from filters and airbrushing: the highest proportion of couples who admitted they would photoshop their wedding album if they could get away with it were found in Wales, compared to the lowest in the West Midlands, according to the survey. It all makes pretty depressing reading.

At the end of the day a wedding is supposed to be about a couple taking their vows in front of family, and hopefully friends, isn’t it?

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