When I was a newlywed, I was so happy to see my friends’ pictures while I was waiting for the photographer to get us the official ones.
Yeah, back when I got married eons ago, it was just after disposable camera era. Remember those? When people bought special wedding disposable cameras and put them on the tables for guests to take pictures? Anyway, my guests sent me CD’s of their pictures.
Now everyone posts pictures instantly on Facebook after the wedding.
Facebook is great, but it isn’t permanent. The bride and groom need your actual photo files. Trust me, send them to the couple and they will love you forever. Quite a few pictures in my wedding scrapbook were taken by friends and family.
But wait, aren’t the files too big to send over email? I have a solution: you upload the files to Google Docs and have the couple download them.
How to Share Original Photo Files with the Bride & Groom
First, once you are done editing the photos (optional), zip the files together.
Second, click and drag the zip file to GoogleDocs (which is currently changing to GoogleDrive). This will start the upload.
Third, share the file with the bride and groom so they can download it.
Here are the steps again:
- Review photos, edit and delete as necessary.
- Zip the folder of photos together.
- Upload the Zip file to GoogleDocs/GoogleDrive
- Share uploaded file with the couple.
- Delete the uploaded file after the couple has downloaded the pictures (they will have to tell you that they’ve done this).
Not sure how to do any of this? Leave me a comment and I’ll explain.
The Wedding Flickr Account
If you are planning your wedding, consider setting up a Flickr account for your wedding pictures. My friend Maryal did this a few weeks ago for her wedding and handed out these cute cards to all her guests.
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I totally agree! I LOVED getting photos from friends and family (even if it was months or years later). I always try to share the (full-res) photos I take at weddings with the bride and groom, too. I never thought to zip them up and share them over Google Docs. I will definitely be using that method in the future!
Exactly – the GoogleDocs thing is a new thing I’m doing and it makes it so much easier to instantly share without worrying how large the hi res files are.
So this post actually came at the perfect time! I have a bunch of photos that I’d like to share, and I’m going to try GoogleDocs. I just realized, though, that I only know how to zip things on a Linux OS, not Windows! I’d love it if you could share how you zip up your folder of photos. Thanks!!
Get everything into a folder, right click on the folder, click Send To, then click Compressed Zip Folder. Let me know if that doesn’t work!
it worked! thanks!