Wedding Pictures

[Autumnal 25]

One of those little questions that blindsides you when you're thinking about other things... Ah, for my poor sanity!

My husband and I had a fairly impromptu wedding, a civil ceremony that wasn't very long. We had friends for witnesses and there weren't a great many photographs taken. Our county courthouse sorta processes you through in ten minutes, they're very thorough. We have a few pictures from before, before our digital camera decided to stop operating, and our witnesses took a few pictures after. I think, however, we've got at the most 5-7. We were always intending to save the photography and formal photos for the family wedding later on, since there wasn't enough time (and nor are we quite in the shape or season we wanted for those photos!).

Is this going to be an issue come the interview? Or is it okay just to explain if asked?

I suppose I should stop worrying, but getting an interview and compiling all sorts of documentation to convince the immigration officer that our relationship is indeed bonafide is a bit of a headache when I realize so many of our pictures involve only one of us (the other takes the pictures) or only a few at the most. ^^; We're sometimes bad about taking snaps on vacation.

[hcj 0]

I don't think the relatively few wedding pictures you have will be any problem. Particularly since it was a civil ceremony, I doubt they're expecting many pictures from it. We had a few but never showed them and were not asked to show them. Some people don't have any pictures from the wedding at all.

You still have 6 weeks or so to go -- if you get a chance, get some pictures with both of you in it, together with some family and/or friends. That will show that other people know you as a couple. In our interview, I only showed one picture. It had the two of us, plus DH's parents, plus my mom and sister. After she saw that picture, she said she didn't need to see any more.

Don't be nervous -- you'll be fine! Good luck.

[Boiler 45,585]

We had loads of photos.

But for AOS, nobody was interested.

Shame. Especially as that was our biggest single wedding expense.

[sara535 15]

we did the the same thing as you and had no pictures at all at the AOS interview (no pics of the wedding, that is, but several pictures of us together and with my family, etc) and it was no problem at all. the officer did look at all our photos but never asked for a wedding shot.

[Peter 0]

I spent too much on wedding pictures. Just to get the pictures on a CDROM he charges us $500 USD.

[ChristinaM 0]

I had (and still have!) only one picture from our wedding, and one in the restaurant we went to afterwards.

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

I spent too much on wedding pictures. Just to get the pictures on a CDROM he charges us $500 USD.

$500. What a scam.

[Matt_Stevens 5]

Photographers are brutal about charging money for the lot of pictures. Before pictures on CD people bought prints and the photogs owned the originals. No more. So they charge you a fortune for the CD, otherwise they cannot make enough money to do what they do.

[motu 6]

I spent too much on wedding pictures. Just to get the pictures on a CDROM he charges us $500 USD.

First of all. We only took about 10 pictures and he didn't even open the envelope to look at them! So, don't worry.

Second, Peter I will do it for you for $499 (what a deal!) Heck a balnk cd costs about 20cents, especially if you buy a 25 or 50 pack. I would do it for nothing, its fun doing these! Good Luck

[Autumnal 25]

<3

Thank you so very much, you guys are such a comfort. VJers all deserve a virtual bouquet of fresh daffodils and tulips for their helpfulness!

I have pictures of us, usually with my husband partially obscured in there somewhere, if he's in it at all. We've joked he is a master of evading camera shots, even official ones! Cameras malfunction, they ghost him... his driver's license took three times to work right because the first time the computer wouldn't register the image, the second time the flash didn't go off, and therefore he showed up like a ghost.

I think we'll go out and get a few snaps of us together today while the weather's in flux, since it will give us a nice variation on this midwestern sky.

Thanks again and until next crisis! *grin*