to ask you what color of wedding photos is better?

[FearlessSwiftie]

So this is a very lighthearted point, but my sister is getting married and somehow she wants her wedding photos to be all black and white but the family keeps telling her its too moody and the pictures will look somewhat sad. I'm kinda lost as she waits for my opinion as well and idk what to tell her. would you have your wedding photos in b&w style in the first place?

Personally I would have a mixture, as black and white can look lovely, but I would want to see the colours of everyone too. But it's her choice if she loves black and white.

I've both a black & white and a colour album from my wedding. Love the b&w one! It's not at all sad!

I had a mix with mainly colour, just a few arty black and white. It's nice to look back and see what the day was like - what colour my flowers were, what everyone wore, even my lovely red lippie I had on. These wouldn't show in black and white.

I recently got married and my brilliant photographer supplied them all in black and white and colour. No problems then!

As it will all be digital then they can be taken in colour and changed to black and white anyway. Personally I think a mix is nice - some photos look gorgeous black and white and less good in colour, and vice versa.

Examples from our wedding:

• part of the venue had deep red walls so the background to the cake cutting image was too bold and distracting, and my H was a bit hot so had red cheeks - in B&W the photo's lovely, not so great in colour!
• the photos in the garden are really fresh, green and gorgeous - I'd never want those in B&W as some of the joy would be lost.

Depends on the image tbh. No point in making a blanket decision.

As it's very easy for photographers to change the colours so don't understand why people can't all have what they want, personally I prefer sepia to black and white.

Some cameras allow a photograph to be 'printed'/digital/whatever in either black & white/colour/other.
They can do so much now: enhance, sepia, all from the same photo. Would need to ask the photographer tho as to what they can do.
Personally I prefer colour, I love looking at historical photographs which have been coloured, brings them alive, more real.

The photos will be hers so she should have what she wants.

Surely any decent photographer will do a mix of both? When we got our proofs back fo choose our album We had some in black and white. Also when we had our newborn photos done there was a colour and black and white version of each photo.

it's her wedding, for godssake! why not just let her have the pictures of whatever color she wants? if the photographer doesn't shoot in black and white, that's another point, but you can make pictures black and white on your own, you know?

Had a mixture of the two, but the black and white one gets far more compliments than the colour one. But l would hate to not he able to see the colours when looking back. Can she go for a mixture OP?

I have my wedding photos in both colour, black and white and black & white but my bouquet is in colour.

I have hundreds of digital photos from mine. I can change them as I want

I have a mixture but my favourite is a b&w one. Suggest getting some of each

Imo you need a mix. Some images look better in colour, others suit black and white and others are better in sepia. A decent photographer will guide the couple.

All the photos will be taken in colour anyway and they can be changed to B&W or sepia so it's not a big deal.

It’s digital now.

So they take them in colour. Then change them to whatever you want.... you could have every image in colour, B&W, sepia and rainbow sparkle filter if you want. Multiple copies of each image in every which filter you choose. Easy and no need to decide ahead of time.

Colour is much better and a decent photographer will tell her that.
Our photographer gave us a few black and white where the picture was a good one but the colour hadn't turned out she would have liked due to lighting or whatever.
The vast majority are in colour.
I think she'll really regret only getting black and white.

My wedding photos are in colour but a friend took lots of b/w ones on the day and then edited the colour out of some of the others and made us a scrapbook for our first anniversary. It is very beautiful.

My sister has a mixture but she has said to me a number of times that she's slightly sad her favourite picture is in black and white. It's a lovely "arty" picture but she says it's not how she remembers the day, which she remembers as a very colourful day.

I would go for a mixture also, but if she would rather have b&w then it is her choice. B&w photos don't look sad, in fact they can look more stunning than colour, as long as the photographer knows what they are doing as it is more difficult to take a great b&w photo.

Why not both, some of each, then everyone happy. I can understand parents wanting colour.

If I wanted black and white photos and it was my wedding then I’d have black and white photos 🤷‍♀️

‘The family’ should butt out and stop imposing their views on her

@Ughmaybenot

I know.. can you imagine (however “lighthearted” it is) “oh look grown up Sister, who is perfectly capable of making her own decisions about her own wedding, all these people on Mumsnet agree that you are making a grave mistake... NOW will you listen to what we’ve been trying to tell you?”

To be fair, the sister has asked for OP’s opinion so the sarky comments from PPs are unwarranted.

I would also go for a mixture of both.