#Hashtag Social Media Fun at Weddings

If you're a Millennial bride, tech savvy or a lover of Instagram, a fun way to entertain and collect memories from your wedding is by creating a #hashtag for your guests to use when they snap and post photos. You can even have a live stream of the photos being taken and posted shown on a screen at your wedding! Wedding Hashtag Wall 

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For your #hashtag, come up with something creative, catchy and personal that they will remember to use! If you can't decide then check out this hashtag generator, answer a few questions and check out the suggestions! Wedding Hashtag Generator


After you've decided on the #hashtag for your event, let everyone know about it at the proper times. Share it on your own social media accounts so your guests will see it from the beginning, include it on your save the date's and invitations, use it at pre-wedding functions and parties, and of course use it on wedding day! Create a graphic to share on social media, then print and frame it to post at pre-wedding parties and the wedding. Instagram Printable Wedding Sign Generator 

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Here are some great hashtag tips from WeddingHashtagWall.com:

3 Characteristics of a Great Hashtag

Keep in mind there’s no registration procedure for creating a (wedding) hashtag. Anyone on Instagram or Twitter can just choose one. That is why you want to make sure your hashtag is the only one for your celebration. Obviously you don’t want your collection of Instagram wedding photos mixed with stranger’s photos. This will mess with the intimate, special memories your Instagram hashtag will collect.

Secondly, you want to give your friends and family a hashtag they can easily remember so they can and will use it. What would be worse than having guests use the wrong hashtag for photos never to be found again or only to be found when your guest wonders why their photo is not in your wedding photo album?

Last but not least, your hashtag must encourage attendees to use it. It’s all about making it fun for your guests to post on Instagram. So, your Wedding Hashtag must be unique, encouraging and easy to remember.

Do’s & Don’ts for your Wedding Hashtag

Do’s:

• Be specific so all your guests know which hashtag to use.
• Make it easy to remember so nobody gets it wrong.
• Make it unique: test search for the #hashtag you use and see if others are using it. Double check right before the wedding.
• Be open for some trial and error. Find out a couple used it before? You might wanna rethink your choice.
• Add a “wedding word” like “hitch”, “love”, “weds”, “happilyever” or “newlyweds” to appeal to your guests.
• Make your hashtag funny or a little bit bizarre, this will add to the appealing factor of your hashtag. Time to get creative!

Don’ts:

• Add symbols, dashes or spaces, this will cut the hashtag. A good hashtag only consists of alphabetic characters (a-z, no special accents) and numbers.
• Just use initials and dates. Weddings tend to have these in common.
• #Useaverylonghashtagwithoutcapitalletterstodescribeyourwholewedding, because… You can see why.
• #WOJAAWSID, would you know what that says? No you don’t… It doesn’t make any sense because it’s the abbreviation of Wedding Of John And Amy Who Say I Do.

For the full article and more about the great idea of using a hashtag at your wedding, see WeddingHashtagWall.com.