While it is customary to hire a professional photographer to take wedding photos that can be given to friends and family, there are many moments that occur during and after the ceremony that will be lost forever without the help of some amateur photographers ready to capture them. These candid photos often make better thank you gifts than anything else a couple could purchase. But, how does one assure catching these special moments on film? The answer is to provide the guests with photo album favors and wedding cameras.
Photo album favors are small photo albums in which your guests can keep some of their favorite photos taken during and after the ceremony. Often these photos are captured by the guests themselves, as they are looking to catch those special, unrehearsed moments that make the event come alive. One way to make this easier for them is providing them with a wedding camera that they can use to take the snapshots they desire to fill their individual photo album favors. Your guests will know that you truly appreciate them coming out and making your day as close to perfect as possible when you give them the option of choosing the wedding photos they want instead of just sending them a posed shot taken by a pro.
The photo album favors will be completely personalized, not by what you have put on them, but by what the guests receiving them put in them. This is the best way to assure truly unique wedding favors that will be appreciated and remembered for many years to come.
Adding in a wedding camera will seal the guests’ knowledge that you are glad they came. You will be putting the power in their hands to choose exactly which moments they deem most worthy of immortalizing on film and capturing those moments. Your family and friends will look forward to sharing their own special take on the event with you when you visit and they show the photos of moments you may have forgotten or wish that you could forget.
Couples can often get some of the finest quality candid wedding photos by providing guests with wedding cameras and paying for a second set of prints from each one. These are the photos that are normally valued more highly than those taken by a professional because the people depicted in them are “real”. Posed portraits are often beautiful, but they lack a certain humanity that is invariably caught when friends and family are taking candid photos in an unstaged setting.
Giving guests a combination of photo album favors and wedding cameras will certainly make them happy because the gifts will mean more to them than many other items that could be chosen. When it comes to trying to give unique wedding favors, photo album favors and wedding cameras are the absolute best way to ensure that each gift is truly unique.