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[flomeo]

Hi there Girls,

Looking for inspiration here! I really like the idea of a photobooth but h2b doesnt and i also think they are pretty damn expensive for a couple of hours! I saw on lisa's fantastic brideandjoy blog a diy photobooth idea with brilliant signs and templates. They look amazing.

Has anyone tried a diy one? How would it work with the camera? Like would you set one up on a tripod and just leave it there for passers by to help take the shot or would you have to rope someone in to man it for a few hours?! I couldnt ask a guest to do that! I'd love to do this but dont know how to go about the actual photo taking bit!!

Help!

[livingabroad]

I'm doing something that might work it's for my guest book but technology would be the same! We want a photo of every guest so setting up a stand to have polaroids done, using a girl I know that's not aguest to man the stand for a few hours. Regular digital camera hooked up to pogo Polaroid printer- Polaroid cameras so expensive but a pogo printer was only 40 quid. Thus instant pics of guests

[mrsfa2b]

I love the idea of a photobooth and do agree they're quite expensive. But I really love the idea of a diy photobooth.
Would ya need someone to man it?

[mrs L to be]

I don't know if its anything you'd be thinking about but i'm putting a disposible camera on every table and leaving a message with it asking everyone to take pictures of each other plus capture all the moments we might miss!!!

http://shop.confetti.co.uk/product/silv ... pack/5722/


i found these and taught they were a brill price!!

[flomeo]

Good ideas here girls!

I love the idea of a polaroid printer actually, thats brilliant! So the pics are stored on the camera for you and guests can print them? thats fab.

I checked my camera last night and it doesnt have the option of attaching a remote shutter control but will check with my parents and my old digi camera and hopefully one of them will allow me to do that. Our photographer is only staying til drinks reception and i cant ask a guest. I'm getting married away from home too so cant really call on someone i know thats not a guest.

I'm sure we'll sort it out!

[Purplebell]

@ MS. L 2be
I thought the disposable camera on each table was a great idea but I was chatting to a girl who I know that had disposable cameras on tables at her wedding and she was saying that it was really expensive to get out all the printouts from the cameras so make sure you find out how much it will cost to print them. BY the time you buy your cameras and develop them it might be cheaper to get the booth. She also said that she got some mad pictures such as EVERY camera had a picture of the dinner, she had a few photos of the toilets and even one of a toilet that had not been flushed. I don't want to put you off the disposable camera idea but just thought I should let you know of her experience

[livingabroad]

So on the Polaroids....

I would not leave the camera alone at a stand, I would pay someone (teenager maybe that would not have been going to wedding) to man the booth - might cost you £30-£40.

You use a regular digital camera - just instead Of hooking it up to your laptop to upload pics you hook it to this tiny Polaroid printer. I just received mine in the post, its the size of my small digital camera! You buy paper for t – these are small Polaroid like paper which are sticky if you want on the back – so with mine I get a pic of each guest and stick into the guest book where they should sign it. The printer was £40 on amazon, but I found cheaper ones on ebay, and the paper was £8 for 70 sheets. The paper is really small, regular Polaroid size. The reason I would say get someone to man it is you don’t want your camera to disappear or to lose the printer.

Remember when you google it its called a pogo Polaroid printer (it usually says something about ink free printing – thats the best part, no buying cartridges!)

[flomeo]

what about employing a waiter to do it?????
give him 20/30 for 2/3 hours???

Hmmm we are having a pretty huge wedding so not sure how many spare waiters will be knocking around and i very much doubt anyone would do it for 20quid for a few hours!! Was thinking of offering my bm's younger brother (who will be at afters anyway) a couple of hundred to do it! Its a boring job standing around doing that- i'd like to look after them for it.

Decisions decisions!

[livingabroad]

I've asked one of the girls thats doing our church music who would not have been a regular guest anyway. At a few hundred euro I'd say your over-budgeting though - thats a LOT of money when you think about how much they'd be paid per hour

[flomeo]

Ah yeah maybe, but a hundred anyway! I'd feel bad offering less I think- real photobooths cost around 1000!

Good idea asking church musician- my friend is a soprano and does weddings so thats her gift to me and she'll be a guest so cant do that one!

When are you planning on having it in use? After dinner? I'll have to think about timing too

[livingabroad]

Well because its for guest book and they are not getting dressed up funny like a photo booth, they will have pics taken on arrival at reception - gives them time to have pics taken while they are milling around waiting for our arrival. Then while they are all printing out and being stuck in book (which I think will take a little while) everyone can be eating their dinner - and the guest book will be ready for signing after the meal

[MrsStokes2b]

Ah yeah maybe, but a hundred anyway! I'd feel bad offering less I think- real photobooths cost around 1000!

I was quoted 450, and that included travel cost as im in Kerry and they wer in Dublin... There would be someone there to man it and also included the props...

[ms-to-mrs]

Hey MrsStokes2B where did you get that price from? I got quoted 1000 from a company in Ennis ( im in Limerick) and they said they would do it at a special price of €700 if I was to get anything else with them.

I'd love it and could justify €450 but not more than that.

[MrsStokes2b]

Hey,, i cant reli remember but i think it was Funkyfotobooth, they're on fb.. and there was another one that quoted me €500.. but thats the most i got quoted! I also priced the video booth and it was actually cheaper!!!

[cashorty]

Hi Girls,

We are putting together our own photo booth too. It has actually grown from a small idea of being a basket with one or two props, to being an array of different hats, glasses etc. My h2b and the wedding organizer at the hotel reckon it will be a focal point and so it has grown mainly out of my h2b's excitement!

Originally I wanted it manned but my h2b wants a remote control and put our camera on a tripod. I don't really like this though because we'll be in a city hotel and it's quite open so my guess is we'll hire a teenager in need of 100 quid and get him to man it for the afternoon It will also mean that people won't run off with the props and scatter them all over the venue!

What are you doing for a backdrop? We want something hassle-free. We bought a white room divider that we might tart up but I'm no sure it'll work yet.

Also, any ideas on how to diplay the props? I saw the basket below and liked the idea but I'm not sure.