The Eventstagram Wedding

Let’s call it wedding perfection

Who wants to get married in the dead of winter? Well, Stephanie and Brian thought it was the perfect time to say I do and got married this past January in the heart of downtown Boston at the historic Park Plaza Hotel.  Their ceremony featured a 200-person candle-lighting and a ring-bearer on a tricycle, and their reception featured food stations and Eventstagr.am. Read about their advice and experience using Eventstagram at their wedding:

In addition to Gangnam style, I'm pretty sure the other clear marker that I got married in the year twenty thirteen will be Instagram. I'm sure 20 years down the road it will seem like the most antiquated invention on the planet. But for now, three cheers for Instagram…AND eventstagr.am.

Lisa, fabulous Lisa, (my maid of honor) gets all the credit for this awesome addition to my wedding.  I was verbally processing all of my wedding plans to her, which included my conundrum about a wedding photo booth. Wedding photo booths are also quintessential I-got-married-in-the-year-2013, don’t you agree?.  They seemed so fun, but also kind of pricey. Lisa had reminded me of a few friends who had DIY photo booths, but that seemed like a lot of work and my DIY projects only seem to have a 2 out of 10 success rate (turns out I’m not the domestic DIY goddess that exists on pinterest).  

THEN, she had this brilliant idea that there must be some way to stream live photos that guests took throughout the night.  This seemed like a fun alternative. I agreed that in theory this technology should exist,  but where and how--it was all too much for my brain.  She volunteered herself to do some research and with the help of hubby Jerry, voila: hello eventstagr.am, my new best friend.

Here’s how it works – you sign up, create a hashtag, decide when you want the live stream to run, set up a laptop and projector (oh, make sure there is wireless!), pull up the Eventstagr.am url and….that’s all! How easy is that? All pictures with your hashtag appearing in a live stream right before your eyes. See again, Eventstagram, my new best friend.

For starters, what bride doesn't want to have her own wedding hashtag? Secondly, we had the pictures streaming right behind the dance floor.   I couldn’t think of a better backdrop to the dance floor.  Let’s be honest everyone is a slight narcissist, so busting a move while seeing photos of yourself appear on a screen, well it’s a good ego boost for all of your lovely guests.   Not only was it so fun to instantly see pics from around the room that people were taking, but for days (weeks) after it was the best invention ever for my nostalgic and egocentric self to look through picture after picture and remember the wonderful day.

Lisa still gets the credit for believing that somewhere in the world this technology must exist.  And Eventstagram gets all the credit for being the place where it does.  If you ask me—and I’m entirely unbiased—I’d say my wedding was pretty stellar.  And Eventstagram, definitely helped to make that way.  Cheers.

To see all the Eventstagram photos click here

Stephanie blogs here at Tortoise in the Hair and spends the rest of her time here working in Cambridge with her neighbors from around the world.