Unique Favor Idea - Photos

[nothereok]

I just wanted to throw this idea out there for brides who are looking for unique wedding favors. I bought every guest a mini wallet size photo album. The ones shown in the following links look great, can be bought for around $1.60 each if you shop around, and come in a variety of colors. I purchased them myself and they are very high quality. The only warning is to make sure you can request a color as some online shopping sites (Amazon is one) fill the orders indiscriminately without regard to the color requested.

http://www.archivalusa.com/k-sm-23.html
http://www.amazon.com/Pioneer-Wallet-Oxford-Leatherette-Corners/dp/B0000B3OTP

In the first page of everyone's album I plan on placing a fun wallet size photo of me and my fiance. Then I am wrapping them in a gold ribbon (gold is one of my colors- coincides nicely with the gold corners on the album) and placing one on everyone's plate. Now for the neat part... We are renting a photo booth for the reception (the kind you see in a mall and take funny pictures in) and guests can get free wallet photos all night. The goal is to have people exchange photos and fill up their mini albums for a fun conversation-starter/ice breaker and a unique keepsake.

Finding a photo booth to rent can be hard (watch out for scammers who say they have a booth and really just come with a tripod, digital camera, and photo printer), but with research you can find one around most major cities for 1,000-1,500.

Just an idea...hope it helps brides looking for creative favors. :)

[nothereok]

Forgot to add.... there are a bunch of others things to do with wallet size photos if you rent the photo booth. There are other mini albums or another idea I was flirting with for a long time was to buy a nice wallet size photo frame, use it as a classy name card holder in front of everyone's seat, and then have it double as the wedding favor and let guests use it to frame their own wallet photo from the photo booth. :) Just make sure to check that the photo booth prints pictures that will fit in the frame.

[Gertie]

We did the photo booth at our wedding although we didn't rent one. We put out a couple of plywood cutouts I'd painted silly pics on and my fil cut out little cuts to show where people should put their heads, and we had a couple of cameras on tripods and a photo printer set up. It was great, there were several people at the wedding I would never have expected it of, but they were hamming it up like crazy! LOL!

For some reason, everyone also thought it was funny to get their picture with the porta potty we got for our event. It was bright red with a white roof! haha

[nothereok]

Oh that is a great DIY idea. Setting up a tripod and camera with one of those instant photo printers is a great alternative to renting a expensive and sometimes hard to find booth. On my orginial posting I didn't realize I was in the DIY forum (im a newbie to online forums). So that is a great work-around while still getting a fun result.

Just make sure you dont pay an outside vendor who says he has a booth, $1000 to do something you can do for $200 with your own camera, a curtain, and a printer you buy.

[igurbisz]

Gertie- did you have someone "man" the camera? That sounds like fun, do you have any pictures to share

[2dBride]

Here are the details on our DIY "photobooth (http://sites.google.com/site/2dbride/photography/diy-photobooth)." It will provide favors for our guests, pictures for our guestbook, and digital photos for our wedding album.