Tell them Early

When sending out wedding invitations and creating your wedding site, communicate about the expectation upfront. You can include the request for the ceremony to be camera-free in there. You can easily replicate this on your wedding site as well.

Use Your Parents-Regulators!

Have your parents reiterate the use of no devices at the ceremony. Sometimes it just comes off a little more serious when coming from your mother or grandmother!

Be Repetitive

On the day of your wedding you have a sign as people enter the ceremony space that asks the guests to put their cameras and phones away and turned off. In case they missed it, include it again in your program. You can also ask the officiant to announce that this will be an unplugged ceremony as well.

At the end of the day, I realize that it is impossible to get everyone to comply. But if you follow these steps I bet you will be pleasantly pleased to see how many people put down their cell phone and truly enjoy your wedding ceremony with you.