Photo Booth Fun at the Wedding!

These could very well be the best pictures of all the wedding shots--by far, the most fun!
The pictures from...the photo booth!

My daughter-in-law asked my daughter and her husband to put together a photo booth--a daunting project when you think of all the technicalities! Many ideas were juggled and dropped along the way--this set up, at the side of the stage, proved a good spot. Two sets of curtains were hung, one for the entrance and another ribbon curtain (made by the best man's mom), was hung for the back drop.

I love this--my daughter designed this great little wooden box, with a slot to slide her phone into and a little geometric hole that allows for the pressing of the start button. She installed a photo-booth AP on her phone and timed it to take 4 pictures with 10 sec. in between for changing poses or costumes. I love that she created the box to look like an "old fashion" 35mm camera. A big thanks to her husband who cut it all out with a jig saw.

Lots of great props right outside the booth to choose from...


The booth was full the whole night long--here are just a few more photo strips--the wedding guests can choose either color or B&W:

The creator of the booth, my daughter, with her niece, (my granddaughter)...
I love the shots with lots of people crunched in that tiny space...
Patience and her mom...
I was so excited that my family flew out to the wedding, here's my sister and granddaughter...
The bride and groom, my daughter, Patience and another sister of mine...
My two brothers and their wives--I couldn't wait to post about this--it was such a great idea--fun to do with fun results--there was even a moon shot thrown in!--(no names and no pictures of that, thank you very much!)

The Wedding

I took many pictures at my son and my daughter-in-law's wedding--here's just a few. People stopped to watch from the Cayucos pier. The bride's aunt did a wonderful job officiating the ceremony. After the posed pictures, we were served some delicious food which included sausage made from elk meat straight from New Mexico, thanks to the bride's family who hunted, packed and shipped the meat to the caterer, a deep water fish, Mong Chong was caught off the coast of Hawaii, which was deeply frozen and shipped overnight by a friend of the groom's family, an outstanding wedding chocolate mousse cake and a fruit topped cheese cake made by friends that drove nine hours with both desserts. Guests traveled from all over, some drove, some flew and some were lucky to live close by. We all danced into the night. It was a grand party!
Up next, I want to post about the photo booth!

March 3rd, 2012

Two good friends did all the flower arrangements...

Her grandmother made this dress for her mother's wedding. When she brought the dress over to ask if I could alter it...well, I was hesitant. I agreed to do it. I didn't take pictures of my process, I wish I had, but at one point I had it all apart! And then I did a lot of basting--I could hear my grandmother's advice on how things should be basted first, advice I refused to listen to when I was younger, but it came in handy for this project!


We had such great weather, warm in the sun. My son made the driftwood arch, my daughter-in-law decorated it; it takes many hands to put a wedding together!

Rehearsal

A rehearsal on the beach and then a great dinner at the Hofbrau in Morro Bay.
I realize now that I should have started these wedding pictures with the end of the wedding and worked back up to the pre-wedding pictures, so that when scrolling down, the wedding would progress in its rightful order, whoops!

More Pre-Wedding Photos

My new daughter-in-law thought up this very simple and yet very effective decoration. She punched out lots of paper circles to be sewn together. These strands were draped over windows and around doorways. I noticed the circles caught the changing colorful lights that were directed on the walls all around the hall. A very clever and simple decoration!


My son planted all the centerpieces for the tables, using these large globes and many succulents. Some have large pieces of jade that he found on a near by beach, some have sand dollars and a few left over little dragons from my granddaughter's birthday.


Benches to sit on for a beach wedding and rounds of wood for the globes to sit on,




Final things to make the day before the wedding.

Colorful Pre-Wedding Pictures

Table runners, brought from New Mexico,



Favors of succulents in biodegradable cups,

and string balloons ready to be hung.

A Gesture Drawing Lesson with Second Graders

I passed out laminated pictures of head to toe figures from magazines. After demonstrating a one minute gesture drawing, (I brought in a timer) the students gave it a try. We used a black crayon for the lightly drawn gesture drawing--stressing to capture only the action of the figure--no details--a quick, almost scribble of a drawing to capture the action and to place the figure on the paper. They really did a great job understanding the gesture drawing process. We drew a timed gesture, three times, trading pictures between each. They chose the one they liked best, to draw in details with a black marker.

String Balloons for a Wedding

My son and his fiancee will not only have dry ice on their dance floor, but above, will have many string balloons with a little battery candle in each. We've had a few nights of wrapping balloons with various kinds of yarn and string. The cotton yarn seemed to work the best.

many hands...


The first batch of dried balloons, I didn't have any trouble getting the balloon to separate from the yarn. I just had to push the balloon in on all the open spaces, pierce it near the knot to slowly let out some air--made sure the balloon wasn't stuck to the yarn, then popped it! I did have some problems with the second batch--for some reason the yarn really stuck and no amount of pressing in would release it--(same wheat paste and white glue mixture)--I think it had something to do with the balloon! This seemed to happen on the balloons that were blown up the day before and had sat overnight? Or I'm wondering if it only happened with the dollar store balloons?




This is an old craft--I remember using starch--I wonder if starch would work better?