But that's my (likely) choice, not a Grand Pronouncement of Societal Rectitude that such a rant seems to imply. Attendees / witnesses of a wedding have the inalienable right to snark about a variety of things (the garb of the participants, the sermon, the music, the flowers, the choice of spouse, the reception, the Other Family, etc.), but these are generally wrapped up with the shrug of, "Well, it's their wedding." Which it is.
It is not the End of Days that someone has adopted this (fairly) unobtrusive technology to enhance their memories and their experience. Indeed, while it's still probably more visible than most people would want, and will make for during-wedding photos of the bride that are more date-able than most (though, let's face it, there are a lot of "Hey, you actually wore you hair like that back then? I remember that decade, long ago …" wedding pictures out there), I think the criticism about this being the wrong focus is 180 degrees off. It's a focus on the personal experience of one of the wedding participants, which is exactly what it should be about.
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Why I ranted about the Google Glass bride
Earlier this morning, I read something in Mashable about a bride who walked down the aisle wearing Google Glass. “My husband and I have a love for technology. We wanted to use Google Glass to captu…
A wedding is probably the one place where I'd call bullshit on the whole, "I don't like the idea of someone taking a picture of me without me knowing" argument. Weddings, and by extension many other family events, are heavily photographed and videoed from every possible angle. If someone thinks they can go to a wedding and have an expectation that everything they do there isn't going to end up documented, they haven't been to a wedding in the past decade or two.
Of course, I think a lot of the Glass hysteria is overblown.
As far as the pictures looking dated, I fully believe that pickup skirts are the ruffled tux of my generation. Yeesh.
+Brittany Constable My wife requested I cut off my ponytail at the time of our wedding with the idea that the pictures would look more dated. Since it was a relatively recent addition, I didn't have a problem with it, decided not to grow it back later, and overall agree with her aesthetic call.
That said, wedding photos ware inevitably going to look dated. One hopes the datedness will wear well, and not look like one was simply being faddish (or that the particular fad doesn't become something of a humorous shorthand for the era). And even if that happens, remember that 50-100 years from now, people will think they are a "classic" pic of Great Granma & Grampa, and weren't they handsome and lovely back then?
And, ultimately, one hopes that they'll always love their wedding pictures for what they represent, not for being a timeless fashion statement.