Disposable cameras, photo booth or photo printing station?????

Im hoping to book a photo booth for our wedding, my friend had one at hers & it was brill!
Only problem with disposable cameras are the quality of the pic can be a bit grainy.

Ive never seen the laptop one done before, but u'd prob need someone on standby who's "tech savvy" for ppl who dont know how to upload etc xx

Thanks - thats one of my worries with the disposable cameras re the quality of pictures. I'm also thinking most people take pictures on their own cameras and phones anyway so how can i get hold of these.

Another thought i had while looking around the internet this morning (i should be working --- opps!) is setting up an account on a photo hosting website and asking people to upload some of their photos from the day onto there, that way i could get copies of all different peoples photos.

Lucy xxx

This is what our friends did. They sent an email with log in details of a drop box account and people uploaded all their photos to it.

Another problem with disposable cameras, is you think they are cheap, but considering the cost of developing them, and how many actual good photos you'll get, it's probably not good value for money.

We are having disposable as can't afford photobooth. I pointed out to OH it would cost loads to develop all the disposable ones anyway but hey ho.

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Great thanks - i'm thinking thats a really good idea for uploading them and getting copies of as many pictures from other people as i can (i'm not having the photographer there for long so want to get as many of other peoples pictures as possible).

I'm still liking the photo guest book idea - i've just discovered 'Polaroid PoGo Digital Photo Printer' that prints 2"x3" pictures (and you can peel the back off and they are sticky) and can connect to cameras by USB or phones by bluetooth ---- its £40ish for the unit and £10 for 70 sheets so i might have to get the other half looking at this tonight to see whether we could use it.

Lucy xxx

Another idea for digital cameras etc - give each guest a blank CD-ROM with a note asking them to put their photo's on their and to send them back to you

I went to a wedding recently and next to their guest book they had a couple of those polaroid cameras that print photos out onto stickers. They then asked people to take a picture of themselves and print it out and stick into the guest book, and write their message next to the photo. I've never seen that before but thought it worked great! Definitely an idea I'll be stealing for my wedding! x

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I have one of these and they are fun but sometimes have issues getting them connected. If you had lots of different phones all trying to connect to various PoGos wirelessly could be problematic, that's why we aren't just using ours!

This. We're giving out blank CDs with a printed sleeve so people can upload and give back.

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I"m thinking of buying the Fuji instant camera for a DIY photo-booth type thing.

I looked at the Polaroid one and my main concern was that the battery only lasts for around 10 prints so you will probably need to buy extra batteries and charge them throughout the night.

From what I remember no, unless you have checked all the camera mini USBs are comptable with whatever leads the Pogo has. Everyone's phone's will be different with different connections for the end of the cable, so the bluetooth needs to be properly set up if you wanted people to use their own.

Other half has had a look at the reviews and thinks its high risk to break on us or people not to be able to conect to it and him having to help fix it (he is a bit of an IT geek

thanks for all your feedback ladies - really helpful

Lucy xxx

Hi there

I used picture blast for a photobooth. It was the first thing I knew I had to have when I got engaged. It was brilliant. Loads of comments on it and was kind of the entertainment. Guests loved it - they all got a great keepsake to take home from them and we got all the photos in our guest book and then later we were given the images on a dvd. They still make me laugh looking at them.

Plus it came with a box of props, silly hats etc. Good fun

x

Hi there

I used picture blast for a photobooth. It was the first thing I knew I had to have when I got engaged. It was brilliant. Loads of comments on it and was kind of the entertainment. Guests loved it - they all got a great keepsake to take home from them and we got all the photos in our guest book and then later we were given the images on a dvd. They still make me laugh looking at them.

Plus it came with a box of props, silly hats etc. Good fun

x