Photobooth at the Wedding Reception
A photobooth is a trendy idea that many people are starting to include at weddings. They’re fun and you get some funny shots of your friends. You can put a guestbook nearby and have your guests paste them in and sign it.
If you hire a photobooth, you can usually get additional digital copies after the wedding is over, so don’t worry about your gusts stealing their photos! Although if you have a sign letting them know that they can get copies later, maybe they won’t even try to take them with them. (Ahem, J.) In fact, one friend who used a photobooth uploaded her photobooth photos to The Wedding Lens as an efficient way to share the photos with her guests. From there, her guests could download or print their own copies of those photos.
There are several alternatives that will have the same effect. For example, you could create a polaroid version in which guests take pictures and sign a guestbook! It’s instant and you get fun photos – not much different than the photobooth. If you put the polaroid in one place and have props around, it will allow for more spunky photos.
If you want to create a photobooth yourself, the WeddingBee has advice on a “do-it-yourself” photobooth. Basically you need a camera, photo printer, a some props. Here’s another explanation with photos of how to create a simple photobooth using those three items.
Alternatively, you could have the photo area, props and the camera – but put up a sign that informs guests that you will print the photos later and send them to the guests.
Happy photos!
~ Natasha
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Photo booths are all the rave! But many times you have brides that don’t want to follow the crowd….but they tend to make an exception when it comes to this amazing idea.
We are biased….we love photo booths too!!
And honestly, if someone can’t afford to hire a professional photo booth service – then I think the DIY is another great alternitive.
Jill Smith
http://www.a2zphotobooths.com
I LOVE photo booths! We had a photo booth at our wedding and it was definitely the hit of the entire reception. Everyone had such a great time. Also, we got some absolutely fantastic pictures of our friends and family. We used California Photo Booth Company for our wedding and they were great…I would definitely recommend them.
Their website is http://www.caphotobooths.com
I highly highly highly recommend having a photo booth at your reception. You won’t regret it!
It’s always great to see pictures of friends and family in the photobooths! And now, most photobooths give you the digital file of the photos that you’ve taken in the photobooth. Once you have those, you can upload them to TheWeddingLens.com and share with your guests. That way they can also get copies of the photobooth pictures!
-Natasha
Photobooths at weddings are definitely a fabulous idea…whoever came up with it is a genius! I’ve been to 3 weddings in the past year that had them! And you know what, they’re not all the same! In a way, you kind of get what you pay for.
One of the weddings, the groom was a DIYer and had some friends put together a booth, kind of like the one linked to above at http://www.promtoaltar.net. The idea was great, the props were fun, and we had a great time in the booth, but the resulting prints left much to be desired unfortunately :T There was weird lighting and shadows on the pictures and the quality just wasn’t all that great. One of the other weddings, they hired a local photobooth company (http://www.mebophoto.com) and the results were night and day difference! To put it simply, they looked so much more professional!
To the brides out there, take some advice from someone who has had some good experience in different wedding photobooths! Make sure you take into account how important it is to you that you get professional quality images. Don’t go cheap on something you’ll regret later…after all, you only get one chance to have all those friends and family together!
- Melody
I’ve been to dozens of weddings as a photo booth operator and several as a guest where there was a photo booth presents.
They are great fun for the guests, but the post above and the comments already mentioned that. So, I offer a few bits of advice.
1. Don’t use tape, even double-sided. It takes forever when working with the scrapbook and causes a back-up near the area.
2. Using gel pens can cause bleeding to other images and other pages because the writing doesn’t dry fast enough.
3. Be careful with sharpies, see #3.
4. Never have scissors. I’d recommend a safe paper cutter, one that glides down the print and doesn’t accept “fingers”. Have to assume kids will be using it.
Happy weddings for all.