Weddingbee Blog

Andrea —

My sister used disposable table cameras at her wedding, and the vast majority of the pictures were not any good. I don’t think she bothered putting any of them in her album or anything.

Plus, nowdays, everyone has their own cell phone camera or digital camera so you could just make a Flickr photo pool or something like that for everyone to upload their digital pictures to instead.

Andrea: Would skip it. People emailed us tons of photos they took on their own digital cameras.

New Question: I’m looking for a website that has or a kind person to share their templates for Bridesmaid Newsletters, OOT Bag Welcome Notes, and Schedules.

Andrea, I’m joining in the chorus of skip its. I hear from everyone who’s tried them that only a tiny proportion (on the order of 10%) are usable photos. I also hear the cameras that have wedding themed cartons on them are usually expired brand name disposables repackaged. Between lighting conditions and people using cameras that they’re unfamiliar with and just plain crappy cameras, it’s just not worth it.

i once saw an idea on here, where you put a SASE w/ a blank cd in it…and have a basket of them to go.

Table cameras were largely ignored the time that I saw them. People can’t be bothered to pick them up and press the button– so lazy! I would say skip it.

MissChris: I still have polaroids from the early 80’s that don’t show signs of fading yet!

Hello! I am interested in finding an affordable event photographer for my friend’s backyard wedding in Dallas. Does anyone have ideas? It should be someone with a good eye for candids; maybe someone trying to get their start in the industry? Thanks!

Andrea- Oriental Trading company sells wedding cameras at an excellent price. I think that are a great idea for capturing candid shots- not everyone thinks to bring a camera to a wedding. Sometimes the pictures on these can also be your best and favorites as they are not “posed” photos! Good Luck!!

Q: so we had our details meeting with the catering consultant yesterday and were underwhelmed. service had been great until the meeting yesterday. the consultant answered her phone during the meeting, and had a guy there that we don’t even think worked there, but she didn’t explain why he was there. she also automatically chose the layout of the ballroom, but never asked us if we were doing guestbook, favors, etc. if we never mentioned it i don’t think it would have come up. we felt very uncomfortable and embarrassed b/c i had brought samples of how we wanted things to look, yet she didn’t seem to care about the details, yet it’s called OUR DETAILS MEETING. apparently they have someone different actually running the event, whom we don’t even meet until the wedding day (we are going to insist that we meet them beforehand for peace of mind).

this makes me very stressed out because i thought the whole reason they have a planner there is so i don’t have to worry about things getting done. i am very disappointed, especially since we are paying for the 200 person wedding ourselves and spent a lot of time finishing up samples of the details to try and make it easier on the day-of planner (whom apparently doesn’t even show up to these meetings). the description of the catering consultant on their website explains that she is supposed to make sure all the details are included, but she only wrote half of them down and kept saying anything else? anything else? like she wanted to get out of there. but we even finished 20 minutes early!!!

we LOVE the venue but even this meeting dampened our view of the whole experience. i was even crying afterwards in the car (although i did that the day before too with the pastor, i think i’m cracking up). my FI is going to call the manager to give feedback b/c i think i will get upset if i try to call.

have you had a similar experience at your details meeting(s), and did you feel the same anxiety as i do?