Photo booths
Fun -- and mementoes -- for your guests, and for you, too
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Typical newlyweds end up with
hundreds or even thousands of photographs from their wedding and reception. It’s
not always so easy for guests to get mementoes of the special occasion -- and of
the great party that followed.
A few years back, there was a fad of placing disposable
film cameras on each table at the reception, with the idea that guests would use
them to take candid photos of each other.
That begged the question of how the resulting photos --
and precious few good ones were actually ever developed -- would get to far-flung
guests.
The newest approach to this problem is actually the revival
of an old idea: The four-poses-for-a-dollar photo booth. Available in several
different styles, these are offered for rent, and allow guests to get spontaneous
pictures of themselves.
Familiar to anyone who’s ever spent time in a mall, on a
boardwalk or at a county fair, the old-fashioned automatic photo booth gives each
visitor a strip of three or four pictures, taken a few seconds apart. Usually
there’s room for two or three people in the booth at a time, so the possibilities
for fun are endless.
A higher-tech variation uses modern digital cameras, with
help from a human operator, and delivers a glossy color print with four poses.
Some wedding photographers offer a different sort of “photo
booth,” which is more like a little portable studio equipped with props and costume
items like hats, shawls, fans and the like. Guests can vamp and goof with these
accessories, and a photographer uses a professional hand-held camera to capture
the moments.
Portable digital printers make it possible to print and
deliver these pictures to guests before they leave the reception.
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