DIY: Wedding Photo booth

And the crafting continues! Wedding planning does tend to get stressful, so I'm glad that crafts help me to relax :) I've had fun creating cute things for our big day. One thing that I have wanted for our wedding since I started planning is a Photo Booth! Renting a professional one would be awesome, but also kinda pricey. We are on a budget after all! So, I decided that the DIY approach would work just fine. The key things we have for our photo booth are: Cool backdrop with our colors, hand-made chalk boards, and fun props to pose with. I also needed some crafting assistants (I won't take all of the credit). My main assistants in this project were Mindy, Ben's amazing mother, Pam, my wonderful mother, Ben, my love, and Kaityln and Cody, my super fun, super rad cousins! Check out the fun pics that map how we progressed through this project...

One of the first steps for creating a photo booth is finding a cool back drop. Mindy and I went to Joann's Craft store and found the perfect piece of fabric! My mom is going to sew the edges, and then it will be all ready to hang. Get ready to strike a pose in front of this fun backdrop! If you see this in advance, you could even coordinate your outfit! :) Below, you can see Mindy and me practicing some poses in front of the fabric at Joann's.
Here is my chalk board making station. I used the glass in differently sized dollar store frames, and painted them with chalk board paint. The paint is pretty cool stuff. You can "Create a Chalk Board on Virtually Any Surface!" :) Hey, maybe I'll even find a use for it in my classroom.

The next picture shows mother and son working together to paint the dowels for one of our prop ideas. Uh, oh, is Ben using a kitchen spatula to flip the freshly painted dowels? ;) haha

Well, that's as far as I'm going to get on this post today. I need my beauty sleep!