Wedding HashTags are a common wedding extra these days. If you like to share your photos with friends and family online this is a must. Some of the best Photos can be taken by friends and family at your wedding and a sure way to make sure you get to see them is to have them hashtag the photo.
If you didn’t already know you can search hashtags on most social media platforms and it will pull up posts with photographs that use that particular hashtag. Social Media Sites like Twitter, Instagram and Facebook are common platforms that use Hashtags.
Why Should you use a wedding hashtag?
Remember when you use to go to weddings and events and someone would have a disposable camera? It would be my goal to get that camera before the end of the night and take a random photo surprise with whoever wanted to be in the picture. This is the same concept except you can upload the photo to your Instagram or other social media to be discovered later.
How to come up with a good wedding hashtag
Coming up with a catchy hashtag isn’t as hard as it sounds. First you should brainstorm some of the common names and check social media to see if they have been taken. Don’t make them too long or people will not remember them. Also if they are too long they could be misspelled.
If you make it too short then its going to be harder to find something unique. If a short name is taken that you like I will show you below some of the best ways to add on words to make them more unique.
But first lets see the easier way of coming up with a hashtag.
The Easy Way – Using a hashtag Generator
There are many hashtag generators out there to assist you with creating your unique hashtag.
https://weddinghashers.com/wedding-hashtag-generator
The Hard Way – Coming up with one yourself
Here’s the hard way (well kinda). Start with gathering important information about your big day.
- You and your partners first name
- The Wedding Date
- Year of the wedding
- The venue name
- Wedding Theme
- Some common wedding phrases
- _______Happilyeverafter
- Justmarried
- istyingtheknot
- savethedate
- Meetthe_______
- _______TiedtheKnot
- ________GotHitched
- ________SaidIDo
Don’t be afraid to come up with something funny or punny. Its always fun to make people laugh with a fun hashtag.
How to encourage people to use your wedding Hashtag
How do you get everyone to use your hashtag. Well the first impression will be the most memorable. Use it on your Save the Date. This will get the catchy hashtag in every ones mind. Then make some posts on your social media using the hashtag to reinforce it in their minds. Also put your hashtag on your wedding website so that everyone will see it when they visit to rsvp.
Then you can use the hashtag on your photos of events leading up to the wedding. For example rehearsal dinners, bridal parties, dress fitting photos and anything wedding related.
Lastly, I would then display my hashtag on a sign somewhere at my wedding venue. This will remind everyone to post their photos on social media using your hashtag.
How to get my wedding guests photos from HashTags?
There are two ways that I know of that you can use you get your wedding photos that were posted using your hashtag. FIrst would be the way everyone views hashtag photos. Just go to the preferred social media platform and search your hashtag. Every time someone posted a photo with your hashtag will come up under that search.
The second way that I have found is to use a tool that searches the hashtag and downloads them for you. 4kStogram is a good tool that you could use. At the time of making this article the price to purchase this tool is $9.95. This is a personal use license. The professional license is around $30 dollars. This tool will allow you to backup your account and download hashtagged content from other accounts.
So there you have it. Now you should be geared up and ready to get your wedding hashtag going. Remember to tell everyone to use it so that you can easily look up all the guest photos taken without tracking them all down. Good Luck and have a great day!
