Videographer

Well... Videographers are rather expensive. And to be honest, the budget at the moment for this wedding is pprreettyyy slim. Luckily I am going to have fantastic photos and in fact don't really think I'll be sitting around watching our wedding video too often if we had one. However, I ran across this cute idea on Ruffled and I definitely wouldn't be opposed to looking into trying it out at the reception.

Lawn Games!

(One Love Photo)

Since the bridal party is busy taking pictures and such before the reception begins, I plan to have some fun things planned for the guests while they wait for the party to start. Our friends and family all love lawn games (we always manage to play some corn-hole or ladder ball when we all get together) so I figure why not have some available to them when they arrive on the reception site? I figure this will be a perfect way for people to mingle while beginning the cocktail hour and it is also a fun way for people to enjoy themselves even during the reception (for the non-dancers).

I think it would be awesome to start browsing around for some vintage lawn games (thrift stores? ebay?) or have all the lawn games painted in our wedding colors (green!).

(Green Wedding Shoes)

(Affordable Utah Weddings)

(Design Sponge)

Hm... Not sure how so many croquet pictures ended up on here... I thought I was most excited about ladder golf... but look at that vintage croquet set! Love it. I really think the guests would appreciate this one :)

Instant Gratification

This summer my sister and her husband had a wedding celebration in my parent's backyard and brought along with them a Polaroid camera to capture some memories they could look at on their flight back home to Kansas City. They came across one at a thrift store and decided to buy some film and see what came of it.

There is something just so hip and vintage about a Polaroid photograph. (Oooh grainy imperfect pictures with bad lighting is somehow romanticized when it is in that little 4 inch white framed square)

I was reading an article today about the history of Polaroid and I thought about making some searches for ideas to incorporate Polaroid into a fun wedding activity.

I had been thinking of some ideas about having a few Polaroid cameras for guests to play around with as opposed to having a photo booth (which I would kill to have at the reception, but know that it would be way too expensive).

Hmmm:

• Provide a few Polaroid cameras at a table and have guests use a silver marker, leaving their well wishes on the back of their mug shot, which we then collect in a nice wooden box
• Have a backdrop where guests can do their own photo shoots and include props and such for them to have fun with (you've probably seen the mustache phenomenon)
• Once guests take Polaroid photos, they can insert them into an instant photo album guest book

Style Me Pretty

This will not be the last you hear about this.... How fun would it be to think of some prop ideas? And pick out a fabric for a back drop? Ohhh I'm excited.

Cotton Candy

Last night AJR took me to a Redskins game. While there, I was dying to get some cotton candy. Ecstatic with my sugar rush I exclaimed, "Omigosh, I LOVE cotton candy! Can we please have it at our wedding?!?!" To which he replied with a small shake of a head and a "um. no."

Hmm... Maybe it was because he was so absorbed in watching the game that he wasn't able to quite picture glorious puffs of artificially colored sugar making their rounds at our wedding reception...

How serious was he about that no?

(How serious was I with that idea?)

I decided to google image "cotton candy wedding" and I found one. Kinda cute. :)cotton candy bride