A Real Emoji Guide to Wedding Etiquette

By Michael Antonoff

Wedding etiquette once focused on seating arrangements and non-clashing attire. Today, it’s more about guaranteeing there are enough charging stations for guests’ mobile devices and avoiding the faux pas of failing to facilitate free Wi-Fi throughout the banquet hall. Could anything be more gauche than forcing guests to pay their own cellular data charges to share your wedding photos?

For tech-obsessed nuptials, the type of couple who planned 90 percent of their wedding on their smartphones, the actual event may come as a shock. After all, when it’s time to be cheek-pecked by relatives and hugged by acquaintances, hiding behind a handheld screen won’t be an option.

That’s why we came up with this essential guide to planning a successful, life-changing event. In a world where digital dominates and stopping to smell actual, sneeze-inducing flowers is so last century, you need to know the rules of a technology-driven wedding reception. All the do’s and don’ts follow complete with emojis for use by those less familiar with the concept of reading.