Weddingbee Blog

I think photo booths at weddings are a great idea, and luckily for me, Cinnamon Buns agreed. We sourced some pieces, and made a few more to fill our tickle trunk of props. We didn’t want a plain white background, so we found this great green and white oversized houndstooth fabric at Fabricland and bought up all they had. In the days before the wedding, I got my mum to sew it into a big square-ish piece (the sewing machine makes me cry; I’m hoping we can get to couples’ therapy sometime soon) that our photographers could throw over their own backdrop frame. We didn’t have any printing capability, just our second shooter with her camera on a tripod. We had plans to get these photos to our guests later, which I’ll go into in another post.

Right after the parent dances Cinnamon Buns pulled me in to the booth so we could show our guests how it is done.

We tangoed!

And then the props came out.

One of my favourite things about this style of booth (photographer-operated) was that we didn’t just get the posed shots because someone in the photo pressed a button—we also got process shots as people set up their shenanigans, or in our case, cracked ourselves up:

I love that our photographers left all the photo booth photos in for us to see, even the ones where someone is pointing at other people where to stand. It’s awesome to see things build up from the last photo.

My high school girls modelling some more hats (my mum put that feather headdress on when the DJ played YMCA! I have a photo, but she’d kill me if I put that on the internet. Needless to say - have a feather headdress!).

The boas were also a hit - they were 3 for the price of 1 when I bought the backdrop fabric the week before the wedding, so I got two in our wedding colours, and one subtle grey one, if a feather boa can be subtle. The dino and bee felt hats were on sale at Michaels one day. And I TOTALLY forgot to put the bee hat on that night. Sadface.

We were practicing our ‘Blue Steel’ for months beforehand. The green mask thing is very cool, it’s like a pair of glasses and has arms that go over your ears. Of course, that meant that I had to take my glasses off, so this is the one shot where I’m actually (mostly) looking at the camera.

The good, the bad, and…

…the mustachioed?

It took me a few moments to realize that E is not holding a mustache up over his mustache, but holding the empty end of the stick to his face. Ha!

These perfectly-imperfect photos are the ones that capture the feeling of the photo booth the best.

I love this one just for the floating hat. Can you guess what they were setting up?

I’ll spare you the entire barrage of photos we have of them building this, that have captions like, “No no, M is this way!” “A goes last!” “Which one am I?”

If you’re on the fence about a photo booth…do it. It was a great source of entertainment, and we got some great photos out of ours.

What’s your must-have photo booth prop?

All photos in this post are by Fotograffika.

The Cinnamon Bun Recaps:

• Baking Pies
• Rehearsal
• Girls Getting Ready
• Guys Getting Ready
• First Look
• Photos in the Park
• Getting to the Venue
• Ring Warming & Ceremony
• The Details!
• The Reception
• PIE!!
• Family Portraits
• First Dances
• Dance Party