That Photo Booth-Guest Book Idea

The reason why photobooths are fun and a highlight of any wedding is the fact that the hosts give a chance to the wedding guests to be in the spotlight as well. Guests would feel appreciated and will have a lot of fun posing for the camera.

There are many zany ways to have a photo booth at your wedding. You can have crazy props and cool backdrop. However, those may take more planning and more money. With a little creativity, having a photo booth-guest book idea will not break your budget.

INSPIRATION AND TRANSLATION

Take a leaf from my DIY wedding project, The Photo Booth-Guest Book idea. This couple from Wedding Bee was the inspiration behind my Photo Booth-Guest Book Project.

This couple's photobooth was set up indoor in one of the rooms provided by the hotel. Props like feather boas, moustache, crazy shades, and colorful wigs were used to help create cool photos and help guests to loosen up. The mini whiteboard was a last-minute addition but proved to be a hit among the guests. The white backdrop was a blanksheet of white seamless background paper purchased from a photo supply store.

My translation for my wedding for this Photo Booth-Guest Book idea was two whiteboards, markers, whiteboard eraser, a photographer, a laptop, wifi, and guests.

The tropical flowers at the hotel's garden acted as a perfect garden-beach wedding backdrop. Two whiteboards were used instead of one to shorten the message-writing time--while one whiteboard is being used to be photographed, another whiteboard can be used by the subsequent guests to pen a message.

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Sinn Wee was the photographer at the photo booth. One thing that is cool about this idea is Sinn Wee instantly uploaded these photos on Facebook and tagged the guests on the Facebook album. That way, your guests will have a photo of themselves specially taken at your wedding and this serves as a keepsake your guests will keep for a very long time.

This Photo Booth-Guest Book idea also gets a cool point for the crazy poses and out-of-the-box messages from your guest. There were countless timeless candor captured and i love browsing these photos on my leisure time.

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Another added advantage that this idea has over the traditional guestbook is you can put a name to the face of the guests. This is especially useful if you struggle to remember who Uncle Kassim and family is.

The cost breakdown for the wedding was only RM40 for two whiteboard markers that comes with whiteboard pens and erasers.

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That Magic Moments Captured by Official Photographer (Detik Indah Photography)

A good photo is a photo that tells a story by its composition, evokes emotion by its exposure and gives meaning by its subject...

I am a silent reader to Detik Indah blog, and equally a silent stalker on their Fanpage. So when we decided to tie the knot, Detik Indah is the ONLY wedding photographer that came to mind. I remember these were their images that made me really eager to have them as my Official Photographer:

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THE SCENIC ROAD TAKEN

Detik Indah was fated to be my official photographer. No really, fate dealt a big black spade for us.
When we inquired for the quotation in June, Diwant, the principal photographer of Detik Indah Photography told me that they were unavailable on the 10.12.2011. We were so crestfallen. Think about it, we could have actually inquired for any Penang-based photographers, but we really wanted Detik Indah Photography. Our hearts and minds were really set on Detik Indah Photography, we did not even bother to look up for other photographers, KL or Penang-based.

Two months before the wedding, the spot became available again, and now at a special lowered price! Without any hesitation, we said yes!

Since Detik Indah Photography is a KL-based wedding photographer, we provided Diwant with his own personal room, not to mention a personalized Official Photographer sign to boot.

The Review

Photos: The dress. The moments. The environment. The small details that make a huge impact. Those decorations. Were all captured beautifully and beyond expectations. Kudos!

Customer Service: We are very happy with Diwant's fast turnaround time. In less than a week after our Penang reception, more than 70 of our official photos were timely uploaded on their facebook album This made it possible for us to share our special moments captured by our Official Photographers with our guests and those who could not attend our wedding. By the time of our wedding reception in KL, every family members and friends have already seen the professionally captured photos of our Penang reception,
making us happily retelling every fresh moments vividly with everyone.
Detik Indah even wrote a personal post about the wedding in their blog, and uploaded our slideshow in DetikIndahTV. We are very happy and truly honored to have such treatment given by Detik Indah
Photography.
Integrity: I'm happy to report that Detik Indah Photography are very easy to work with. Everytime i have a question, my SMSes to Diwant were replied as fast as I could typed. Diwant is also very helpful in dispensing advice. He is also one of the most frank and honest photographer--he doesn't overpromise and under delivers. There were moments of of my divaness and his frank photography advice and opinion brings me down to ground. Having integrity is important, Detik Indah did not give me last minute stress.

For more information about Detik Indah and their beautiful work, visit their Facebook page.

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That Ombre Wedding Cake

Trivia: Do you know that the bigger the piece of cake the bride and groom fed to each other, the larger the number of children they will have in the future?

One of the highlights for our wedding is our wedding cake. 

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A wedding is never complete without a wedding cake. It seems that the grander the wedding, the bigger the cake gets. The significant of the wedding cake is the cake-cutting ceremony. The bride gets to cut the cake aided by the groom. They would feed each other a piece of the cake from that first slice of the wedding cake. This symbolizes their commitment to one another and also the promise that they would provide for each other.    

Judging by the cake slice we cut and fed each other, we will have a small number of children. Preferably two.

Back to the cake.

The Icing Road Taken

 

The selection of baker was the easiest. Melting Bites is my choice selection because i simply love their cakes. Every occasions we celebrate, it is their cakes we ordered from. The road to selecting our wedding cake began in November 2011. Our wedding cake was a three-tiered wedding cake, but purposely designed by Melting Bites to look like a five-tiered wedding cake. Rainbow cake is a popular butter cake and it has always been a praise-winner among guest. Since the wedding theme is blue and white, Melting Bites came up with the idea of an ombre blue cake, a spin off from rainbow cake.

The design of the cake was proposed by Melting Bites. Tired of the same wedding cake design she was requested to make, Mimi, the owner of Melting Bites, proposed several new designs she deemed suitable for the occasions. Out of the three designs she proposed, we chose this sexy wedding cake design.

Doesn't it look like a woman's sexy lingerie?

The Review

The wedding cake tasted as marvelous as it looked. The butter cream isn't as sugary sweet as most wedding cake i have tasted. A lot of the guests asked for seconds. My sister-in-law actually commented on Facebook that this is by far the best wedding cake she has ever tasted.

If you are in Penang and is looking for an affordable baker who does not compensate on the quality of your wedding cake, look no further. Melting Bites should be your prefered choice.

 Melting BitesAddress:

	3838, Jalan Sultan Azlan Shah (hadapan balai polis), 19600 Penang, Malaysia. Bayan Lepas, Malaysia

Contact Number: +60174759676

Email Address: meltingbites@yahoo.com

Blog: http://www.meltingbites.blogspot.com

Bored

I'm so bored today. I have things to do, proposal to be done but I'm pretty stumped. I'm hungry too. Too lazy to cook or to eat out.
In the first two months of the wedding journey, i feel superbly dour today. I guess honeymoon period is over. And there is a way to relive the wedding! Hehe. I've created a new blog in another better platform. It is still in the works. Just started it this evening.

Once that site is up, I'll let you guys know ya?

Ala' Jamie

In KL, a good wholesome meal can cost RM40 per couple. In a hawker's stall, expect RM10 for your meal, but the food can't hold a candle to Penang's hawker's delights.

In the spirit of living frugally and for the fact that eMMoe loves to cook, we prefer to cook our wholesome at home. Breakfast are normal cereals, lunch would probably be last night's dinner, or sometimes we eat out when time is of the essence, and dinner would be our proper meal.

Cooking is theureupatic.

Recipes are optional.

Ikea Meatball, Salmon, and potatoes with lingon beries.

Spaghetti ala moe.

Moe's dried beef curry.

Bubur pulut hitam ala me.

Beef soup with toasted bread.

Hubby's Low Key Celebration

On hubster's birthday, the Talent Harvest team surprises hubster with a birthday cake in bed. The initial plan was to have a surprise dinner at In House at Publica. But Moe sprained his knees. so we have to bring the surpise to the house.

The next day was makan makan kat umah in-laws. Where i had the opportunity to see my in-laws bird nests' nests which was pretty awesome.

And yes, i have two boxes of bird nest for CNY reunion dinner :D