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I would think now that everyone has digital cameras and uploads the photos on Facebook or email that you'll have more then enough photos. I wouldn't do the disposables on the tables. But I think the photobooth would be fun.
I think that having the photographer and a photobooth is a great idea. Personally, I would leave out the disposable cameras. Your guests will probably take personal pictures anyway with their own cameras. Many times, the disposable cameras are just a big waste of money. Sometimes people don't even take pictures with them, or when they do, it's of really bad quality. Also, I attended a wedding one time where some of the disposable cameras were taken home by guests!
I wouldnt do disposables either. So many people have digitals now, you can make mini-moo cards and ask them to upload to one site and provide the login information. And, like above, people take them, or, in my brothers wedding case, he got an entire camera full of photos down one of his friends pants...can you imagine the look on the developers face for that one?! hahaha
We are doing photog, photobooth, and possbily putting out a polaroid, but thats only because we have like 6 cases of film and have NO idea what we'll do with it. So we'll le it float around to see what ends up coming of it.
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I knew lots of guests would bring digitals so I found a way to make it extremely easy for them to share with us. I had padded mailing envelopes, pre-stamped and with our mailing address, stuffed with a blank cd in a jewel case. These were set out near the place cards so people saw them when they came in. We also had a sign written in lovely lettering that said "please share your digital images with us". Most people also uploaded on facebook but the resolution is too low to print those in 4x6, so getting a cd with the full size files gives us lots of fun possibilities. Plus, we aren't getting to keep our proofs from the photog until after the album is made - like a year out, so the CDs people sent to us are really the only pics we can print and frame right away.
You cannot believe how many pictures I've been tagged while attending weddings. With everyone having digital cameras now, I don't think you'll have to worry about ensuring you get lots of pics of your friends. A photobooth might be nice to get some great quality pics of guests.
What a great idea, mrsmike! I might just have to do that myself...
Okay, so no on the disposables, and get people to share their digitals. One thing I'm concerned with is our older guests who don't all have facebook and digital cameras. I was just looking through the proofs from my Bat Mitzvah 15 years ago and it's AMAZING to me how many of my family members are no longer with us from that time, and I want to make sure we have lots of pictures of all of them. Maybe I'll just make sure the photog knows to take lots of pictures of the guests, too!
Pro and photobooth, that way you can have pictures of guests for sure, and great even pictures.
Nix the disposable cameras. Those are a waste, and usually end up with crappy pictures.
marigold, maybe you can ask some of the younger family members to each take responsibility for including some of the older people in digital pictures. my guess is that everyone with little kids will have a digital camera with them, so just ask them to get pics of the older generation? and of course, let your photog know which tables the older family members will be at, so the photog can take some pics during dinner when everyone is at their tables.
oh and by the way - if you can afford a photobooth (typically $1500) they are AWESOME. have some props handy - funny headpieces and boas - and a blank archival quality book with gel pens and a glue stick. have guests keep half the pics for themselves and glue half in the book for you with a written message.
I would stick with pro photographer and trust people to bring their own digital cameras from home. Most people are more than happy to share them with you if you ask (or offer if you don't ask). I have never seen a single halfway-decent picture from a disposable, even the top quality cameras. I'm not familar with the photobooth idea but I'm not really sure how that would add to your photo collection when it's usually considered a favor of sorts for the guests to take home.
@Ember78: The one we're looking at prints two strips--one for guests and one for a photobook. Or we can opt to save a copy to a disc that we'll get after the wedding.
joining the bandwagon of anti-disposables. we had good luck with making moo cards and getting people to post their digitals on flickr - which was super fun to have before the pro pics came back. another advantage is you can veto things or have the files to share again. I also thought disposables might mess up the pretty table look too.
I would have loved a photobooth if we had the money though - there are some great ones in people's recaps, like Mrs. Cupcake.
Chances are, your guests will also bring cameras and share their photos with you. At my brother's wedding, I took the charge of collecting all my relative's cameras the next day (fortunately, we were all staying together) and uploaded all the pics on to a DVD and everyone got a copy of all thousands of pics.
Photobooth will be fun since it'll offer different types of pictures than snap/posed shots.
Disposable cameras, no matter how much you stress to your guests to leave them behind, always get lost. So, I say Pro and Photobooth.
If you have the budget for pro and Photobooth that that is probably the coolest option. I agree lots of people bring their own digital cameras, so you might want to just set up a flickr account for your wedding and distribute the upload address and password.
I agree with most posters, nix the disposables, and try mrsmikes idea about the padded envelope! Sounds like a great idea!
The quality of disposable cameras is actually quite poor compared to the digital photography we are used to so I chose to go for the other two options!
My brother is having a computer set up with the usb cords. The best man is making an announcement to everyone asking them to share thier photos before leaving. Just make sure the images are copied not cut from their cameras so they don't go home empty handed! This idea wouldn't work unless there was someone who knew what they were doing to man the operation!
We're doing to Moo card idea. I set up a shutterfly account, and included all the info on the Moo cards, and are putting them at every place setting. we"ll see!!
love the moo cards and mrsmikes idea! i agree about the disposable cameras, everyone has a phone with a camera and a digital camera so the disposables may not be used...
Another alternative to disposable cameras is renting a Canditto... basically it lets people upload any photos from their camera in the last 6 hours and you get them all on a thumbdrive. If a lot of guests have digitals - this may be a good alternative for you.
We had a pro and a photobooth. Everyone LOVED the photobooth and people are still talking about how original and fun it was. (Though, now I think everyone will be using them, I have 2 friends getting married next year - one in May and one in June and both are doing photobooths now after my wedding).
I would eliminate the disposables as well. I never seem them being used at weddings anymore and, in my opinion, they aren't really trendy anymore. Plus, the color and style of them just doesn't go with much decor! No one really uses them since everyone brings their own camera. I think they are just a waste of money, too.
I think disposables are a waste of money at this point. Everyone and their mother has a digital camera. The money spent on disposable cameras could be better spent printing up cards telling people where to upload their digital pics.
My sister used disposables at her wedding and I would say at least 50% or more of the pictures didn't come out well. Either they had no flash and were way too dark, or the pictures were of the tablecloths. I vot no to disposables!
We are having a pro photographer only for the "getting ready," the ceremony, and formals of our guests and us after the ceremony. For the rest, we are asking our guests to share their digital pictures. We will have a laptop with a card reader right at the reception, and will also give out photosharing cards for those who want to upload later.
We are also having a DIY "photobooth." One of the objectives of this is to make sure we get photos of all our guests, not just those who happen to be sitting in the vicinity of someone with a digital camera. We will ask guests to go to the photo area, get a picture taken, and put a copy into our guest book.
We didn't want to pay for a full on booth, so we asked our photography team to station one of their two-person team at a booth area (really just a spot in a hallway with a backdrop that I bought from Jo-Ann fabrics and a trunk full of props). During the reception, one photographer took pictures of people dancing and one photographer was "manning" the photobooth/photo area for a few hours. It was easy to tell when people were done with the photobooth area and that second photographer just joined the first one. That way we didn't have to pay for a full-on rental of a booth.
We didn't want to pay for a full on booth, so we asked our photography team to station one of their two-person team at a booth area (really just a spot in a hallway with a backdrop that I bought from Jo-Ann fabrics and a trunk full of props). During the reception, one photographer took pictures of people dancing and one photographer was "manning" the photobooth/photo area for a few hours. It was easy to tell when people were done with the photobooth area and that second photographer just joined the first one. That way we didn't have to pay for a full-on rental of a booth.
IMO, disposable cameras are a waste. I used to manage in a photo lab and you wouldn't believe how many brides would bring in 20 disposable cameras from their reception, only to get maybe 36 photos (from all 20 cameras!). Most of the images would be too dark, no flash was used, person's thumb was in the way, subject was standing 20 feet away....not good. Now with everyone pretty much having their own digital camera, disposable cameras are even less effective now.
My photographer offers a full studio for your wedding day with a self hit trigger. Its actually a pretty cool idea. I haven't seen one other photographer that does the same.
He doesn't have the work on his site but if you meet him, he can show you on his site:
jlinphotography.com
-CR
I said other. I wanted to do the most with photos, so we are having a pro and some instamatic photos taken. We also have a digital that we just bought, the instimatics are going into a guestbook for guests to sign
Just as a follow-up, we had a DIY "photobooth" at our reception, plus we asked our guests to upload their photos. We ended up with several hundred photos that way!
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You can never really have too many pictures, but I'm worried we have too many ways of taking them. We hired a great photographer for portraits and some candids, but we want to make sure we end up with lots of pictures of our guests so we thought of putting disposable cameras on the tables. Then FI suggested a photobooth (really? is he reading wedding sites in his free time now? ;), but I can't imagine that people will want to photograph themselves in a photobooth, AND each other at the table (etc.) all night. Is this ACTUALLY too many pictures?