Photobooths and Fauxtobooths

My girlfriend P. is, like me, planning her wedding right now, and she's planning to incorporate one of my most favorite trends at her reception: the photobooth! Who doesn't love making silly faces four times and displaying them on the fridge! Plus, many photobooth vendors will set up a "guest book" for the bride and groom, with copies of all the photos taken during the reception, thereby creating an amazing keepsake! J. and I would love to do this ourselves, but alas we've run out of budget, so we'll just have to live vicariously through P.!





Option #1 considered by P. is NYC Photobooth, which has a very nice looking photobooth you can rent, but it takes vintage style digital photos, not the film strip style she really wants. Renting one of these is about $1000, which is not terribly costly when you think about what you're getting.

Source: www.polkadotevents.com/blogs/index.php

Option #2, Classic Photobooth, is even cooler. These cost a bit more to rent (ok, like twice as much) but they actually develop film strips of four photos in color or black and white for the guests. And they'll give your guests these perfect photo frames to keep their photo in.

Option #3, from Aardvark Amusements, is less pricey than # 2 and does digital photos in the film strip style. Do you miss the actual film strip-y-ness for these, or are they a good close second?

Option #4, Party Booths, is actually the least expensive, starting at $845, and they have a cute looking booth and the photos look fun! They aren't vintage-styled though. Would you mind?

If you're out there wanting a photobooth like but don't have the budget, there are still options though. Consider a "fauxtobooth" for your wedding! Brides and grooms everywhere seem to be coming up with great, low-cost and no-cost ways to incorporate this element into their weddings!





For example, Sasha Souza worked with this bride to create this fun backdrop for photos. Check out the action over at Kiss the Groom to learn how they did it!

And Miss Bunny over at Wedding Bee came up with a great, FREE way to use her macbook to capture fun pictures of family and friends at her wedding.

I've even heard about folks breaking out their old Polaroid cameras for some good clean shake-the-picture fun!

Would you have a photobooth at your wedding?