At modern celebrations, you can increasingly see a themed corner - a photo zone, in which guests and newlyweds can take a couple of original photos. What is the reason for the popularity of this idea? This is creative and unusual, because banal photographs against the background of the walls of a banquet hall are a relic of the past. And in the photo zone, guests will be able to take truly original shots while having a lot of fun.
You can entrust the organization of a photo zone at a wedding to an agency, or you can put in a little effort and arrange it yourself. The portal Svadbaholik.ru will tell you about this.
Application options
Now you know how to make a photo zone with your own hands for a wedding, using a variety of materials: wood, wallpaper, napkins, fabric scraps, etc. The main thing is to find an option that will highlight the theme of the celebration and the individuality of your couple, for example, a photo stand is suitable for a classic holiday with frames, for a boho-style wedding - a garland of ribbons, and for a celebration in a rustic style, the ideal option would be a background made of wooden saw cuts.
If you come up with an original idea for a photo zone at a wedding, then such a themed corner will become the center of everyone’s attention, the portal www.svadbagolik.ru is sure! And don’t forget to prepare accessories for the photo shoot, which you can also make yourself. Then your holiday photos will definitely become the brightest, most fun and interesting!
What does the photo zone look like?
A photo zone is a special photo backdrop, supplemented with props for a photo shoot. For example, wigs, glasses, wooden letters or crackers. Instead of a classic background, you can use themed decor, floral arrangements, chalk boards and large glowing letters.
Photographer: Alexey Kinyapin
Ready-made inscription templates for a wedding photo shoot
The heroes of the occasion can make inscription templates themselves using Photoshop or Microsoft Word, or download ready-made templates. Below are several ready-made speech clouds that future spouses can use during a holiday photo shoot. To make this accessory for a wedding, you need:
print a picture using a printer (select and download here https://yadi.sk/d/umJj_hOj9ps47); carefully cut out the cloud with scissors; carefully glue the resulting wedding attribute with glue; The original accessory for a holiday photo shoot is ready!
Various inscriptions that newlyweds use for wedding photography can look formal, touching or funny - the newlyweds need to decide on the style in advance. When creating or ordering accessories with phrases, future spouses should remember the theme of the wedding, the color scheme in the design of the event, because signs, posters and speech clouds should be in harmony with the environment. If the bride and groom carefully select attributes with inscriptions, these decorative elements will fit into the overall style of the wedding and decorate the holiday.
Materials for decoration
To ensure that the photo zone is beautifully decorated, you can use the following materials:
- Air balloons. This is an integral attribute of any holiday, so they can be used in any quantity, the main thing is to follow the chosen style. With the help of balls, entire figures, large flowers and arches are created, under which it is fun to take pictures.
- Fairy lights. Rain, figures cut out of colored paper, and fresh flowers are used as garlands. In order for flowers to last a long time without water, you need to buy them in specialized stores, where their tips are treated with a composition that allows them to retain moisture. Another option is to use a New Year's garland with lights. It is carefully hung on an arch behind a tulle base and the cascading lights on the cards look blurry and interesting.
- Colored paper. This is simply a universal material for creating jewelry. You can cut out any details from it: bows, butterflies, geometric shapes, etc. Then the cut out elements are strung on a thread and hung like garlands or hung like rain from an arch.
- Ribbons and fabrics. Beautiful stands are obtained using various flying and flowing fabrics, with which you can create a drapery effect.
Where to place the photo zone?
You can set up a photo zone in a banquet hall or outdoors, for example, in a buffet area. When choosing a suitable place for it, focus on three factors:
- For high-quality photos, you will need either natural or good interior lighting, but you should not place the photo zone under the scorching sun or too bright lamps.
- There should be enough empty space in front of the area so that the photographer can step back and take full-length shots of guests.
- Photo zone mounts and decorative elements of other zones should not be included in the frame.
Photographer: Yulia Kaptelova
Stages of creation
- Use a professional marking board or a regular ruler to correctly mark the dimensions of the workpieces. Having decided on the desired size, draw the shapes with a simple pencil on cardboard. Then you need to cut out the blanks with a sharp stationery knife. We will need two parts for each letter, so we need to make them in two copies at once.
- We measure the length of each side of the workpiece around the perimeter. We cut out the sides: the thickness can be any, we will make them 5 cm thick. To do this, we cut out cardboard strips of the required length, 7 cm wide, leaving a centimeter allowance for hemming on each side. Having folded the allowances with your hands, we glue them to one side of the base with double-sided tape, forming the sides.
- We apply the second side of the letter to the side and also glue it with tape.
- We use regular adhesive tape to secure the part in random places for reliability.
- We decorate the resulting blank according to our own taste and desire.
A simple and quick way to design a blank is to attach it to beautiful paper (you can use bright wallpaper for this purpose), trace the shape with a pencil, adding a few centimeters on each side for folds. Cut the paper with scissors and glue it to the cardboard blank with PVA glue. Allow the glue to dry, then additionally decorate the facade with lace, beads, pearls, and artificial flowers.
Common options for words in capital letters for a wedding photo shoot: love, married, wedding, happiness, love, happy, just married, amore, amour. The phrases “I agree”, “Forever”, “Yes, I do”, “Family” also look beautiful in the pictures. Inscriptions with equation signs look elegant, for example, “Masha + Sasha = Love” or the inscriptions “Husband” and “Wife” with arrows facing the heroes of the photo shoot.
Exclusive photo zone for a wedding with your own hands: floral simplicity of beauty
You can come up with millions of ideas, as many people as there are as many opinions, but to bring them to life with your own hands, you may have to work hard. Therefore, especially if you have no experience with such crafts, it is better to choose something simpler so as not to bother too much. Moreover, the photo zone we bring to your attention, made of canvas and flowers, looks simple, attractive and tasteful.
To create such a wall, you will need to make artificial flowers, and in a completely arbitrary quantity. A wall with a couple of flowers in a chaotic order, with a cluster of them in a corner, or even with a completely filled field will look great. Everything here will depend on your perseverance and desire to work hard.
Materials and tools
- A plain wall or poster, you can simply stretch the fabric over a frame of slats.
- Thin corrugated paper intended for crafts. It is easy to purchase it at any craft store.
- Double-sided construction tape, craft tape, or hot glue gun.
- Scissors, regular tape, knife and needle.
Method for making a flower wall for a photo zone
First you need to prepare the paper for creating flowers. To do this, you need to cut it into pieces measuring 50 centimeters by 25 centimeters. Then the cut sheets, separately, need to be carefully folded into an accordion of any size, and one end of this improvised contraption should be carefully rounded using sharp scissors.
Next, you need to unfold the accordion, and its ends must still be carefully secured with double-sided tape or the same tape for crafts. All that remains is to straighten the resulting flower. It needs to be slightly crumpled at the bottom and straightened at the top so that it looks like a bell.
All that remains for you is to make the required number of flowers, and here, as already mentioned, the whole matter will depend on your imagination and hard work. Among other things, flowers can be made not only of one color, but also in a variety of colors, it will be even more creative and fun, the main thing here is not to slip into bad taste, this is completely unacceptable.
Combination of red with other colors
Red and white weddings are popular. A successful duet symbolizes the fire of life, restrained by spiritual purity. It is diluted with orange or purple. The color of gold is welcomed in the decor.
Red is diluted with other shades:
- emerald;
- classic white;
- blue;
- ivory color;
- creamy;
- dark green;
- beige;
- lilac color;
- gray;
- classic black;
- yellow;
- ivory color.
The main thing is to avoid oversaturation and a chaotic riot of colors. You need to be careful with dark shades. In their pure form, they are mixed with plain red to recreate the loft style of the wedding.
Red and blue rarely make a statement. To prevent the conflict of shades from creating an emotional storm, it is recommended to use calm and harmonious combinations of tones. Thus, the color combination with pastel shades is best perceived. In extreme cases, images are complemented with black or brown.
The combination of scarlet with pink and purple looks good. A beautiful combination is associated with the similarity of shades.
Selecting a location
Flowering fields, green trees, a clean pond - all this can be used as a background for photographs, but the basis of the composition will still be the photo zone. Most often, this is a fenced off area of picturesque space on which attributes characteristic of the chosen wedding style are located.
For example, you can arrange a corner for a photo shoot in a separate forest clearing bordering the place where the main celebration is taking place.
You can fence off a photo zone in different ways. Most often, wedding screens are used for this. They are sold in any wedding accessories store and come in different designs. Another option is a low decorative fence, which is well suited in cases where one of the European styles is chosen for the celebration. The photo zone may not be fenced at all, marking it only with decorations on trees or the ground.
There are several basic rules when organizing such a sector:
- the total area should not be less than 2 sq.m;
- the model and photographer should be able to move around the area comfortably;
- Signs leading from the banquet space are used to indicate the corner for photo sessions.
Each wedding theme has its own design options for the photo shoot sector. For example, a retro or vintage style is complemented by an old European-style bicycle, a flowerpot with flowers, photographs of famous actors of the last century, etc. For rustic, country and boho themes, wicker baskets, sheaves of ears, wooden carts and spinning wheels are prepared. For a wedding in the style of “Alice in Wonderland”, select a table for tea drinking with bright dishes and a white rabbit on one of the chairs.
The classic celebration should not be ignored either. In this case, the photo zone can be decorated using universal accessories - fabrics, ribbons, balloons, flowers, paper garlands or rose petals. The basis of a corner for a photo shoot can be imagined in the form of a carved bench or a long swing suspended from a tree and decorated with climbing plants.
Best decorator
If your registration takes place in a forest clearing, then no decorations are needed, enjoy the natural beauty. In such a frame, everything looks much more natural and natural: more colors, more life, even more sincere emotions.
Folk signs:
- June – happy family, love, harmony, sweet life, like honey;
- July is the least favorable month for marriage, it promises an unstable family life, the newlyweds may even regret their decision;
- August - the number of this month is eight, means infinity, which means the spouses will find boundless happiness and will be good friends to each other;
- Having celebrated in the summer, you will have warm family relationships and care for each other, and you will live a prosperous life.
A wedding in the summer has many advantages compared to other times of the year and, although it has several disadvantages, they will not affect you if you approach it head-on and plan everything in advance.
Wedding banner
An interesting wedding banner can become an original decoration for an event. Often it is installed in front of the entrance to the hall. Guests entering can take a photo in front of the poster. If the newlyweds plan to post pictures on Instagram, then an inscription with a hash tag can be placed on the banner, which will be placed by the owners of the application under the frame and the newlyweds can easily find all the available photos using it. The banner contains inscriptions displaying the names of the spouses, their wedding date, the motto of the banquet, or the signatures of the husband and wife.
Photo of wedding banner
Photos with signs at a wedding
The signs and inscriptions that young people use for a photo shoot can have a touching, funny or official look. Newlyweds are advised to decide on their preferred style before the ceremony and banquet.
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Inventory and attributes
To make your guests relax and get the most out of the shoot, offer them fun attributes! You won’t have to think for long about how to stand correctly and where to put your hands; all embarrassment will disappear as if by hand. At your choice, these could be:
* mustache, moustache and whiskers
* sponges, eyes, glasses - on sticks
* various masks and crowns
* hats, sombreros, bandanas, top hats, bowlers, wigs
Try to use such props so that the guests do not have to specially change clothes - don’t forget: they are also in elegant dresses and hairstyles.
* old things: suitcases, candlesticks, armchairs, whatnots, bicycles, flower stands
* picture, mirror frames and photographic baguettes
* clouds from comics
* canes, swords, toy guns
* various inflatable toys
* multi-colored huge ties and bowties
* foam ears, noses, lips
My own photographer
Of course, you need to take care of who will take the photos. It’s great if you have the opportunity to order two photographers, or your wedding professional will be able to manage on two fronts. But there is a completely acceptable way to solve the problem.
Place a camera on a tripod in front of the photo zone with the settings set in advance, in accordance with the lighting. Or you can put it on a special table. And everyone, at any time when such a desire arises, will take a photo with the bride and groom or with other guests.
Prepare a monopod - any guest can take a selfie.
The trend this season is to use Polaroid: instant photos and a nice gift for guests.
To make your photos even brighter and more colorful, provide additional lighting for the photo zone (especially if photographing takes place in the evening or the day is quite cloudy).
Let your wedding photos be bright, emotional and beautiful, and let the photo zone you created help with this!
Sample words for letters for a wedding photo shoot
It would be ideal to prepare the entire alphabet to take beautiful photographs, and even make 2 or 3 of the most popular letters. This will allow you to fantasize during the photo shoot itself and lay out various words for interesting shots.
Budget method: come up with phrases, print them in Word format, combine them into a monogram and print them on thick paper.
You can choose any font: openwork (with sinuous curves), strict (printed and smooth), cheerful (slanted in different directions, varying thickness of letters), etc.
Beautiful glowing letters
Ideas for beautiful wedding words
Here are the options in Russian and English:
- love (love or fishing);
- happiness;
- happy together;
- my husband; my wife (my husband; my wife);
- newlyweds (married);
- wedding;
- family;
- you and me (you and me);
- bitter (now a kiss);
- family surname or names of young people;
- wedding date;
- humorous phrases (got hooked, caught in a net, she said “yes”, now mine, now mine, let’s light it up today, this is a wedding, etc.).
Three-dimensional figures that are useful for a wedding photo shoot:
- hearts;
- arrows (to point at each other);
- just frames of different shapes;
- ampersand icon – &
- mathematical signs: plus, minus, equals, etc.
Chalk board
There is absolutely no need to carry out a predatory raid on the nearest school. There is a special paint in the assortment of construction stores that gives the painted surface the properties of a slate board. Therefore, this popular version of the photo zone is available for independent implementation. The frame for the photo zone is easily assembled from plastic pipes. A sheet of suitable material - drywall, plywood or kragis - depending on your capabilities and desires, a can of paint - and your canvas for pranks is ready.
Such a photo zone makes sense if among guests, relatives, or you yourself know how to draw something other than “stick-stick-cucumber, here comes a little man.” Of course, the structure cannot be called light and mobile, but there will always be options for moving it, if there is a desire...
