To find it odd when people use a wedding wedding photo as profile photo?

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AIBU to find it odd when people use their wedding photo as their social media profile photo? Full wedding attire, so obvious it's such a photo.

1. For FaceBook, Twitter and other informal social media, I don't find it odd in the first few months, or maybe a year, after the wedding. I do find it odd 5 to 10 years later.
2. For LinkedIn and other work related social media, I find it odd even when the wedding was very recent.

True, it's causing me zero harm and maybe giving the profile owners much pleasure. My reaction leads me to question my character / niceness / generosity of spirit etc.

I'm interested in:

• whether (and why) other people find it odd, or find it normal
• whether my mild 'I find it odd' reaction is unreasonable.

No, I'm not planning on asking my friends who have such profile photos.

I paid nearly a grand for my wedding photos. I will use them at every bloody opportunity physically possible. And I got married 9 years ago!!

I agree it’s a bit weird on LinkedIn, but I think it’s very normal on Facebook. It’s usuallt when people look their best.

People posting pictures of themselves on one of their happiest days, who would do that??

I still change mine back to my wedding pic from time to time, I did for our wedding anniversary. I’ve been married 2 years now, it makes me happy. What a self absorbed bitch I must be!

Eh? I'd have thought it was obvious.
Because they like the photo, they think they look good in it?
It's one of the times you're made up and looking your best. Plus your wedding.
So stands to reason would be their happy photo or one they'd like to use.

I only use it on Facebook, not for work or linkedin I agree that’s odd.

The only Facebook photos I bother to hoik up my judgey pants for is those wanky duck face pouts. Or those stupid snapchat type filters that make anyone over 20 look infantile.

Anything else is fair enough.

Another wedding photo thread. I can't fathom why it would be so controversial to use a wedding photo as a profile pic. Some people won't have many pics with themselves in, but most people have photos taken on their wedding day.

For linked in? YANBU

For facebook?
It's preferable to

• pouty duck face
• cleavage
• snapchat filters

YABU (although I love seeing my friends new profile pictures, it is a nice way of seeing they are happy)

Personal photos aren't for LinkedIn in my opinion.

What people do elsewhere on social media I don't really mind. I do find it a bit unusual if someone swaps it back to their wedding photo from 7 years ago (but that's more because people change). I have some lovely photos from old holidays but sticking an old photo from years ago as a profile picture feels a bit weird to me.

I never ever gave it a thought until this thread...
Must have missed last years.

Of course not. It's a landmark occasion and most people think they look great in them. Honestly there are other things to dedicate neurones to

Another one agreeing about linked in and needing a more formal photo,imo. I was at a conference last year and one of the speakers had her wedding photo (bouquet and all) as her bio photo in the programme. That was unusual.

I wouldn’t on LinkedIn, but my profile picture was a wedding photo until very recently. We’ve been married 3 years.

I’ve never thought of it as odd- it was happiest day of my life!

Doesn't seem odd to me.

I confess, though, that I don't use a photo at all due to the fact that work insist we display first name and surname and a coworker once had a weirdo creep customer try adding them as a friend on FB. Doesn't stop people looking me up but I have a fairly common name and all personal info hidden so makes it hard to work out which one of many I am.

Why would you care that much about someone else’s profile picture? That’s what I find odd.

Ahh OP I didn’t mean to make you feel embarrassed. It felt very deja vu-ey to me, that’s all!

FWIW, I have very few photos of myself because I dislike being in them and DP just doesn’t take them. Any I do have are generally selfies. If I were to ever get married, I absolutely would have a nice photo as my profile picture because there just aren’t that many nice photos of me!

Because in about 80% of photos of me I look like utter wank. In my wedding pictures with the help of a professional mua and photgrapher I look halfway decent. Don't see why I shouldn't use one of the few pictures of me I actually like.