Wedding day
The Same Day Slideshow: Your Wedding Morning, on the Big Screen at Dinner
Made between the ceremony and dinner. Played when everyone is seated.
By Jon Low
A same day slideshow is a photo film of your wedding, made on the day itself and played at your dinner. Photos from that morning, set to a song, on the big screen that night.
Picture this. From the very morning, we work with you and your family to make those photos. Then it’s 9pm. Everyone is seated, watching the slideshow. They see the photos, and they remember the day they just had.
In this story
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What goes in it
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The break it needs
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Jonali & Bhavik, The Westin Langkawi
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Jon & Jiaying, November 2025
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Why I built a slideshow app
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What goes in it
Typically a wedding starts way too early in the morning. Getting ready, then each family has their own version of a ceremony before breaking for lunch. Nowadays we will have a short bridal portrait session before we take our break.
All of that goes in. The last photos in the slideshow are usually those portraits, just before the break.
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The break it needs
The slideshow is made during the break between the ceremony and dinner. I need a 3-hour break in the running order for it. Without one, the slideshow goes online within 7 days instead.
The break is shorter than the time we need to breathe. We cull, we edit, we lay out the slides, we fit the song, and we deliver no matter what. It is always just in time.
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Jonali & Bhavik, The Westin Langkawi
A four-day wedding. The night before, I prepped 60% of the slides, falling asleep halfway. Then on the day, I had to add the ceremony before handing it over.
It played just before 11pm, at their dinner.
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Jon & Jiaying, November 2025
Theirs played at 9.20pm, at dinner.
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Why I built a slideshow app
I’ve been shooting weddings for a good two decades now, and I’ve made hundreds of these. A slideshow used to take me three hours. Most of that was arranging every photo by hand.
So I built OMS Slide, a slideshow app for Mac. In Lightroom I mark colour labels to group photos into a slide, and it lays out the whole show and cuts it to the song. That’s an hour and a half back on the wedding day.
Questions we get asked
What is a same day wedding slideshow?
A photo film of your wedding, made by your photographer on the day and played at your dinner. It covers the morning, the ceremonies and the portraits before the break.
When does the slideshow play?
At dinner, once everyone is seated. Usually around 9pm.
What do we need to plan for a same day slideshow?
A 3-hour break in the running order between the last portraits and dinner. Without it, the slideshow goes online within 7 days instead.
