Fun Wedding Photo Ideas
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010Pictures are an intrinsic part of any wedding. Newly married couple are normally thrilled to get their pictures back from the photographer so they can live over special occasion. But the’re many special activities you can construct into a wedding party that involve taking pictures.
One fun idea that a few brids employ is to take pictures of everyone as they arrive at the marriage ceremony, almost like you do at a high school prom or office christmas party. You can provide a background and husbands and wives can pose either for a paid photographer or for whoever happens to pick up the camera. These photos may be taken with a Polaroid camera for instant fun or with a disposable camera. If you want slightly higher quality pictures, choose a camera.
This can be an excellent way to keep guests busy and happy until the “official” reception begins with the arrival of the bride and groom.
As an extension of that thought, you may take instant photos and create scrapbook pages or memory book pages with the photos. There can be supplies handy so guests can generate pages on site, or pages may be mass produced and photos easily put into the prepared spaces. If guests don’t want to create pages on site, or the bride does not want this specific activity going on, the pictures may be put away for some other time. As a present for the bride and groom, someone can create memory books with these photographs.
If Polaroid cameras are used, another option is to have the subjects sign the Polaroid photo and place that in a basket somewhere. The bride and groom will like looking at the photos later.
While it’s not a specially new idea, lots of brides enjoy giving disposable cameras on each table at the reception dinner so guests are able to capture candid shots of the reception and the table guests. These pictures can be added to the newlyweds’ wedding book or they can be put into some other album showing the wedding ceremony from the guests’ perspective.
Another fun activity sure to be entertaining is to make a “silent photo guess” area. Here’s how this works: prior to the wedding, someone close to the bride and bridegroom collects photos of the bride and groom at a few different points in life. The pictures should show the the happy couple doing things, not at Christmas or with their first birthday cake. This means that, the photos should include some action, but it shouldn’t the apparent in the photograph what has happened or where the person is.
A great deal like a silent auction, individuals will come along and view the photos, then take a silent guess as to what the photos show. They can make a note of their guess on a piece of paper and place it in a numbered basket that corresponds with the number on the photo. Looking at things guesses during the reception is entertaining and sure to be entertaining. The bride or groom can give the real answers. This is a specially fun activity at a relatively small, family wedding where the people who are taking part know the bride and bridegroom very well.
If you want to supply an area for guests to keep their pictures taken but aren’t thrilled with the “prom night” idea, what do you think to having a photo corner set up someplace in the reception hall or facility. Here, the wedding ceremony photographer will take candid shots of wedding guests. They may well be couples, but could be entire families, friends having a great time, or the groom being taken around on the shoulders of the best man. Whatever the pictures end up being, they provide a fun, “let it all hang out” area for the wedding guests and a surprise for the bride and groom. Since they will likely be occupied with all the reception facts and having the time of THEIR lives, they could like knowing their guests had a really good time too, as evidenced in the pictures.
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