Roger Lee

Light stand, umbrella, speed light (yongnuo 560), big slab of white foam board on the other side, stools, and background of some sort, spare batteries and chargers. Dial it in and watch the fun.

SteveR Loc: Michigan

Nightski...If you can work out the technical details with the camera, you have several months to make this happen. Remember the old photo booths that we used to take photos in for a quarter....or are you that old? Anyway, if your son is at all handy, he could build a booth out of plywood, seat and curtain included before New Year's eve. Whatever lighting would be best could be included in the booth...a 60 watt bulb might do the trick. I would suggest a 10 second delay on the camera once the remote is engaged. Too bad a series of four photos, five seconds apart can't be arranged. Once all the photos have been taken, I would suggest posting them the next day on a photo site that all attendees would have access to.

At proms now, photographers take photos of couples and groups as they arrive at the prom. Taking photos of friends arriving in this way at the reception would be a good way of documenting everybody who was there, as well, and getting them in their finest. This, ofc, would take a separate photographer while the wedding photographer takes photos of the wedding party right after the wedding.

Erv Loc: Medina Ohio

Hi Sandra. You have gotten some very good ideas here. But how about going to Home Depot and getting 2 of those clip lights. They make soft light light bulbs. And they do pretty good lighting. And with 2 of them you could control the shades little better. I use them in my little studio I made for taking Harrison pictures.:) For the back ground I would make some pictures of both the kids form when they were little to now. And tape them on the back wall.

donnahde Loc: Newark, DE

Re Creative Live DIY course with photobooth. I didn't have time to look yesterday but just did now. Don't know if you found it but it's this one:

https://www.creativelive.com/courses/building-and-using-diy-lighting-gear-kevin-kubota

It's at the end of the course. I personally would definitely have someone there to man it though. Good luck and have fun!

queencitysanta Loc: Charlotte, North Carolina

I tool pictures of all of the guests as they arrived. Years later thee bridal family thanked me for this work.

steve03 Loc: long Lsland

I have seen it at several weddings and it is very popular with younger people. It does not end the need for a photographer. Just another fun thing to do at a wedding.

cfusco3

At my son's wedding we bought a ton of disposal cameras, handed them out to closer friends at the reception with the instructions to pass it on to someone else when done. We had a drop box for the fully used cameras. The pix we got were priceless. We got very few not returned or not full. Well worth the expense of the disposables.

ras422 Loc: Virginia

Sandra the best thing you said was having them get a good wedding photographer. After the wedding other than memories the only thing left is the pics. My youngest daughter just got married a few weeks ago and used the same wedding photographer that my other daughter used 10 yrs ago. He is just incredible and well worth the money in the end. Maybe the guest can use their cell phones to take selfies and send them in on Facebook etc and use one of the extenders. Congratulations. Rich

SteveR Loc: Michigan

You're right there, Rich. People will pay out the kazoo to put on a wedding, yet balk at $3000 for a good photographer.

Gendarme Loc: Katy, TX

These are readily available. I would go this route.

jeep_daddy Loc: Prescott AZ

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Doddy Loc: Barnard Castle-England

Sandra you could get an extension line and sneak in next door and plug it in there, and then you could use as many lights as you want..all for free. Only joking of course, as using too many lights could blow his socket!!

Our Gang

I have attended weddings with rental photo booths. They are fantastic. They even provide props for funny pictures. I am sure it would be a better alternative.

Christm Loc: Howell, Michigan

Photo booths are the way to go. Went to a wedding last year and it worked out great

Bud Root Loc: Western Washington state

Our niece rented a photo booth for her wedding and it worked great and was a real hit with the guests.