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As many of you know, the church we selected for our ceremony venue is undergoing construction at the time of our wedding. There wasn't much on the property in terms of a photo opportunity, but now there really isn't anything. So, I've been frantically looking around for a place where we can take some wedding day photos... (note: the outside of the hotel is not that fantastic either!)

[[DRUMROLL]] WE FOUND IT! Lake Fairfax Park is about 12-17 minutes away from the hotel and looks like this:

The idea is that for the first look... we'll have Mr. Mercy at the end of the pier & me coming down the stairs to see him... :)

I'm just super thrilled we found it finally!

Now onto the cause of my headaches: DIY Photobooth

Our photographer is charging $800 for the photobooth option (w/ professional lighting, printing, etc.), another photographer charges $250 for the photobooth option using a laptop, and a professional photobooth costs about $1000+. SO we wanted to have a DIY photobooth...

First of all, my close friends from college threw me a mini-bridal shower at the end of May and gave me a scrapbook as a present! This is the future purpose of that scrapbook:

Now in terms of the backdrop, I explained that we had purchased 2 black curtains + 2 clothing racks in order to make our backdrop. I want to hang a banner across it like this:

It requires a few items:

1. Macbook (w/ david cline's awesome automator script: we donated $10)
2. Printer w/ photo paper (and hopefully enough ink...)
3. Table for the printer & for the printer--> the one for the laptop needs to be elevated to eye level. The one for the printer can be at whatever level there is. But the table needs to be thin in order to provide enough space. sigh.
4. Background (and in our case the banner)
5. Lighting (probably a floor lamp will do)
6. Box of props

Hopefully the end image will look SOMEWHAT similar to this:

The biggest issue currently seems to be that I want the photos to print out 2x on precut 2x6s. This will save tremendous amounts of money. But it requires me to fiddle with the automator script to get it to do that. we'll do a test run once I get the code and I'll let you know.

Last be not least: MyPublisher Photo books!

We got the MyPublisher photo book and it really looks amazing!!! I'm pleased with its quality over the quality of Shutterfly and I would highly recommend it!!! We will perhaps order our parents albums through here. We still need to check out Picaboo & Mpix wedding albums, & we paid $35 for a $115 groupon deal at Photobook America for our wedding album!

TO DOs:

• Honeymoon-- seriously.
• Order engagement photo for display
• Work on making the pew bows
• Print table numbers
• Select & Print photos for centerpieces...