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On Australia Day we celebrated the wedding of the year, our wedding. Although my opinion may be a little biased.
Growing up my wife Annie was a volunteer surf life saver and always loved the beach. So the ceremony was held overlooking O'Sullivan Beach with the reception located a bit further up the coast at Christies Beach Surf Lifesaving Club.
Computers have always been a big part of my life and I wanted to include them in the wedding. We were lucky enough to have booked a venue that featured an overhead projector. I developed a program that displayed all of the guests photos taken throughout the day.
We wanted to give everyone the ability to easily upload photos
A lot of people at the wedding would not be familiar with computers and would not understand how to upload the photos. I needed to create a software program that is easy to use and required minimal interaction. It had to be a simple 3 step process.
The Solution: After purchasing a 31-in-1 card reader I developed a software application that automatically downloaded photos off any memory card. Guests simply put their card in the reader and waited until the green light stopped flashing, the program did the rest.
Only wedding photos would be displayed on the screen
The software needed to be automated, we didn't want anyone to be stuck on the computer sorting through photos all night. Unfortunately software is not able to determine the location of photos, so we had to work out some other way to automatically filter them.
The Solution: Our ceremony started at 3:15pm. So I made the software ignore any photos taken before 3:00pm or any photo taken on previous days. This ensured that the photos on the screen were only those from our wedding.
The Result
I'm glad to say that the software turned out to be a complete success.
All evening our guests were commenting on how much of a great idea it was and its ease-of-use. It also become a great talking point as new photos made their way onto the screen.
It was an excellent way for us to collect photos from different perspectives throughout our big day. The following day we were even able to look at all the downloaded photos and even keep some that we probably would never have seen.
Facebook friends can see all of the photos by clicking here.
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