Let's face it - many of us are pretty attached to our phones. Whether you can't resist checking Facebook or you rely on it to pay for your shopping, there are millions of us who couldn't go a day without having our phones in our pockets. But could you put your phone away at someone's wedding?
One bride and groom recently tied the knot in an "unplugged" ceremony where they asked every guest to put their phones away, but were left furious when one person refused to follow the rules. The groom's aunt kept her phone in her hand for the entire wedding despite being told multiple times to put it away - and the bride was left "worrying" about whether the phone would show up in photos and "ruin" the footage.
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In a Reddit post, the bride claimed: "Our wedding was yesterday and it was extremely important for me to have an unplugged ceremony because I feel like the cell phones ruin the footage.
"Our officiant asked the guests multiple times to put their phones away but my aunt-in-law refused and the officiant decided it was time to move on and start the ceremony. It didn't help that she was sitting in the aisle seat of the second row and had a hot pink phone case.
"Once I got down the aisle I whispered to the officiant to ask guests to put their phones away and he explained that he already did multiple times. I ended up gesturing to her to put her phone down, which I knew was embarrassing to do in front of everyone, but I was thinking that it was worth a bit of embarrassment to try to save our ceremony photos.
"She just smiled and nodded at me. I gestured at her again, but she did the same thing and didn't put her phone away. I smiled and looked happy for the ceremony but in my head the whole time I was just worrying about how the photos would turn out.
"Now, I’m really regretting not being in the moment."
The bride approached her aunt-in-law at the reception to ask her why she refused to follow the rules - and was told that she wanted to film the ceremony because the videographer would "take too long" to send the professional footage out.
She added: "She later happily explained to me that she knows I didn't want phones out, but she wanted to film the whole ceremony to send to some extended family that couldn't make it to our wedding.
"She said that it takes too long for the videographer to send the footage and that it's better for our extended family to be able to see the footage now, instead of waiting.
"Now, I'm very anxious that all the aisle shots are ruined by her phone."
Commenters on the post were firmly on the bride's side, with many saying they "couldn't believe" that her aunt-in-law would completely ignore her request to put her phone away.
One person said: "I can't believe she ignored you, the bride, when you stopped the whole wedding to gesture for her to put her phone away! Who does that? It was already bad enough to ignore the officiant!"
While another jokingly wrote: "If you're going to stop the ceremony for it, then you might just as well have really made it worthwhile by going over to her, snatching the phone, and doing your best impression of your favourite quarterback. That, at least, would have taught her a lesson."
And a third posted: "I'm telling my officiant to make an announcement and say we're waiting for all phones to be put away before we begin. If they wanna act like school children, they get treated like school children."
Other commenters also tried to help the situation by pointing out that the bride's photographer should be able to edit the phone out of any pictures it may appear in.
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