Friday, January 20, 2012
Picture Fun Wedding Ideas
Photos are an important part of any wedding. Newlyweds are usually thrilled to get their pictures back from the photographer so they can relive their special day. But many special activities that you can build a marriage that involve photos.A fun idea that many brides employ is to take pictures of all of them come to the wedding, almost like a high school prom or company Christmas party. Can you provide a backdrop and couples can pose either for a paid photographer or for whoever happens to pick up the camera. Photographs may be taken with a Polaroid camera for instant fun or with a disposable camera. If you want slightly higher quality photos, go for a digital camera.
It's probably a good way to keep visitors busy and happy until the "official" reception begins with the arrival of the bride and groom.
As an extension of that idea, you can take instant photos and create scrapbook pages or memory book pages with pictures. There may be supplies on hand so guests can create pages on the site, or pages can be pre-made and photos simply placed into the prepared space. If visitors do not want to create pages on the site, or the bride does not want this happening of certain events, images can be saved for later. As a gift for the bride and groom, someone can create memory books with pictures.
If Polaroid cameras are used, another option is to sign people in a Polaroid picture and place the basket in place. Bride and groom will enjoy looking at the photos later.
While this is not a very unique idea, many brides who want to provide disposable cameras on each table at the reception so guests can capture candid reception tables and guests. These photos can be added to the newly married wedding album or they put in a separate album showing the wedding from the perspective of visitors.
Another fun activity sure is entertaining is to create a "silent photo guess" area. Here's how it works: Before marriage, a person close to the bride and groom collects pictures of bride and groom at various stages in life. The photos should depict the bride and the bride and groom doing things, not at Christmas or on their first birthday cake. In other words, the photographs should include some action, but it should be clear in the description of what makes a place or where the person is.
Just like a silent auction, people will come and see the pictures, then take a silent guess as to what the picture shows. They can write their predictions on a piece of paper and put it in the basket that determines the amount of numbers in the image. Reading guesses during the reception that there is an interesting and entertaining. Bride or groom can provide real answers. This is an activity that is fun at a wedding, a relatively small family in which the participants know the bride very well.
If you want to provide a place for visitors at their pictures taken but was not happy with the idea that "prom night", how about having a photo corner set in place in the reception room or facility. Here, the wedding photographer will take pictures of a constant guest at the wedding. They can be couples, but also full of family, friends who have a good time, or carried on the shoulders of the groom's best man. Whatever the pictures end up being, they provide a fun, "let it all hang out" place for wedding guests and a surprise for the bride and groom. Perhaps because they are busy all the details of receiving and having the time of their lives, they might appreciate knowing their guests had a pretty good time too, as evidenced in the picture.