If you got a link to someone's wedding photos, how many photos maximum would you look at before getting bored?

Question

Two years after the fact, I am just getting round to making a personal website with some photo albums. After the wedding, I did send a handful of pictures (maybe 5 pictures) to immediate family. And thats it. We just got busy and...

So what is the maximum number of pictures you would be willing to look at another persons wedding? And this other person being your sibling or close friend. 50? 100? It will be on a website, where they can literally flip through, its made in Flash.

There are hundreds of photos, and it would help me whittle it down if I had a number to shoot for...

Answer 1

30-50 max

Answer 2

Honestly, if a friend sent me a link to their wedding photo album two years after the fact, I would probably skim all of them real quick to see if I am in any of them, and then I'd maybe look at about four before getting bored and closing out of the link.  Maybe if it was a super-close friend or a family member I'd be more interested, but I doubt it.  I don't even think I'd spend much time looking at my own wedding pictures two years later.  But for your purposes, I'd say to defintiely keep it at no more than 20, and only include the pictures which are at least remotely interesting (you walking down the aisle, you and your hubby kissing, a crazy reception dancing photo, etc.- trust me, nobody cares about pics of the bride putting on her dress, or that silly photo of nothing but the bride and groom's hands that ends up in every wedding album.)

Answer 3

Between about 3 and 15 pictures is a good number to shoot for. However, because you're having a website where visitors can look at whatever they like, I would still include everything. Sometimes I like being really nosy by looking at all the minute details of every picture. What I would do, though, is pick out a few really important or nice photos, and put them on the first page (or make them in some way the default pictures that people see when they go to the website without having to really navigate at all). Then I would have all the other pictures on other pages that were a few more clicks away, so that people could look at them if they wanted, but wouldn't feel obligated and bored.

Answer 4

Probably 50 - for close family, 100. As long as they are relatively different from each other.

Someone from this forum posted a slideshow last week, and there must have been 100 pics (not sure of number, it took a lot of time )- and I went through them all simply because I had never seen a wedding like that before!

Answer 5

Hm, probably 50 or 60? I wouldn't want to look at hundreds. Usually when I'm looking at photos on Facebook, I can look at one album of wedding photos (60 pics) and then I'm done.

Answer 6

50 maybe but different ones...

Answer 7

I would front load all of the most interesting pictures that other people would like, a small sample with some variety for people that just want to flip through a few. Then put all the other ones you feel like after, so that the best ones aren't buried. If they don't want to look they don't have to. Maybe even make separate albums, the short and sweet one, then break them up into reception and ceremony for the people that want to see all of them.  

Answer 8

I'd say 30-35.

Answer 9

I think 50-60 (like a facebook photo album) would be the max I would look through.  And that's if I had just been to the weddings.  2 years after the fact I *might* skim through them quickly, but maybe look at like 20 closely.

Sorry, I just think 2 years after the fact is too long to keep people interested in looking through your pictures.

Answer 10

Oh my goodness.  I had to answer because my idea was so much different than everyone else's - seriously, I would say 12 - That's it!  No more!

Answer 11

After seeing the bride and groom officially photographed TOGETHER. . .it's Boredom City, U.S.A.  after that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 12

I don't have a set number. If it is someone I am close to, I will look at all of them! I would definitely have no problem looking at a hundred or more.

If you have a lot of pictures maybe you can have them in separate albums (ceremony, reception, formals etc) to break everything up.

Edit: I guess I'm the only one who really likes looking at pictures, lol!

Answer 13

Keep it to the top 35-40, and give those close to you an option to a location to see more!  Best wishes, Isabella