The range of attractions that can be used during a wedding is expanding quite quickly. You may be tempted to say that in each wedding season, there are new proposals, the implementation of which allows you to diversify the wedding party. And so more and more wedding consultants point to a hot trend among fashionable wedding attractions. They are photo booths.
What is a photo booth and how does it work? Photo booths are nothing new… in the United States. It is there, for not even a few years, but for several decades, that they can be found at almost every step, not only on occasional parties, such as weddings. However, the situation is different here, where photo booths are just beginning to gain popularity. Although it must be admitted that it is becoming very fast and the popularity of photo booths can be described as spectacular. The main benefits of them are: great fun and unique wedding souvenirs in the form of very interesting photos. The kind that a wedding photographer wouldn't do.
What are photo booths really? Well, photo booths can be divided into two types. The first of them are photo booths - mobile devices operating as a "portable" photo studio. Such a photographic photo machine can be set up in any place so that our guests and ourselves can use it at will. Photo booths are always very popular and are crowded with people willing to take a souvenir photo. Operation of this type of photo booths is very simple. It is enough to sit or stand in front of the photo booth's camera lens, press the "start" button on the touch screen. The camera will automatically take a series of a few photos, which will then be printed within a dozen or so seconds. The most popular formats of photos printed in this way from a photo booth are 5x15 cm. and 10x15 cm. Additionally, depending on the company in which we rent a photo booth, we can have at our disposal: a CD with photos taken, an online photo gallery, various backgrounds for taking photos, accessories and gadgets, an external monitor showing what is happening at the moment. booth .. We also get the option to print your own logo or text on the photo (for example, the date of the wedding and the names of the bride and groom).
The second type of photo booths is recommended to fans of the "Do it yourself". Why? Contrary to appearances, a photo booth does not have to have an unambiguous form of a closed room. The resourceful bride and groom can prepare it themselves. All you need is a bit of free space, a corner where you can put the appropriate props and a camera with a self-timer. You will definitely need a background for photos, which can be prepared, for example, from a piece of cloth, gadgets that will make the photos more fun and a user manual for guests. You may be tempted to buy an instant camera (it creates photos on a regular basis). If you don't have such a camera, you can use the standard model with the self-timer and burst functions set. In fact, the only limitation when making your own photo booth is your fantasy.
How to choose a photo booth? Along with the growing popularity of this wedding attraction, which is a photo booth, the number of companies offering a photo booth for rent has also increased. It is therefore worth browsing through as many offers as possible to find a photo booth that meets your expectations, and the costs of renting it correspond to the amount from the wedding budget allocated for this purpose. The next steps in choosing the best photo booth for a wedding are: getting to know the "portfolio", i.e. a thorough look at the photos taken by the company on the website of the photo booth: sharpness, color saturation, etc. service - it is worth paying attention to whether the company offering renting a booth also provides on-site assistance of an assistant; is a person who, if necessary, will explain the principle of the photo booth to guests, encourage shy people to take photos, replace backgrounds and ensure that gadgets and props are not scattered around the photo booth, make sure that the company offering photo booth rental provides backgrounds for taking photos, and if so whether it has any that will correspond to the theme of the wedding and reception; rather, you will not use backgrounds with the words "baby shower" or "hen party", it is also worth knowing whether the cost of renting a photo booth includes gadgets for taking photos, if not, you will have to buy them or prepare them yourself, although in accordance with Polish law, the consumer should be immediately informed about the gross price of a product or service, not all of them obey this law; So before you decide to rent a specific model, make sure whether the given amount is a net or gross price and what the actual cost of renting a photo booth will be.