Can’t touch this…
Our guest book was a black and white photo booth. Like a proper photo booth with the black curtains, funny hats and a (digital) start button… It was so much fun!!!
When Alex and I were wedding planning we really got our hearts set on a photo booth. Both of us loved the old time-y feel of the photos themselves and have the nostalgia for some of our favorite photos taken together in the (now deceased) dip & dunk photo booths at the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. The question then was two-fold: How can we find one? And can we afford it?
The first question was pretty easy to answer. As we were planning our wedding in my hometown, a lot of my friends from high school still live in the area. With that, I knew that my friend Paige Michels had started a wedding photography business a few years ago. Then, about a year before the wedding, I saw that she’d posted on Facebook about the photo booth her husband had built for her business. I quickly replied and got the details for their rental: hourly rental of the booth that they would set up and run; two copies of the photos would be printed (one for us, one for the photo takers); and a disc of the photos afterward. Awesome!
The cost of the photo booth was a whole different consideration. Now, the actual rental price was totally reasonable–and, our California wedding was on a shoe-string budget with my parents footing the bill. For as much as we wanted a photo booth, it started to look like it wasn’t going to be financially possible.
But then we got a fantastic offer: family friend would give us the photo booth rental + guest book as a wedding present. Alex and I could hardly believe our ears–we were thrilled! We couldn’t say YES fast enough!!
Now on our shelf at home we have an additional photo album with over a hundred silly/adorable/sweet/loving photos with written messages just to us to sit alongside our official wedding photographs from both weddings. It’s the perfect book for when I’m missing home, or need a laugh, or want a reminder that we are so incredibly loved.
With professional and DIY photo booths popping up a lot in wedding blog-o-land, are any of you thinking of getting a bit silly in front of the camera yourselves?
All photos taken in the photo booth by Paige Michels Photography
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