Wedding

Halloween Wedding Photobooth

Almost exactly a year ago I got married, just before Halloween. It seems to be fairly typical these days to have a photobooth at the reception so that guests can take photos of themselves for you. We decided ours should have a Halloween theme. What Happens Guests enter a cubbyhole and sit on the chairs at one end. The space is lit by a lamp and there’s a camera on a tripod pointing at them. Scary props are provided, the background is decorated with spiders and bats. They press the big illuminated red button in front of them. The button flashes five times. The lamp goes out, a strobe starts flashing, the middle spider on the background drops down and in front of them. The camera takes a photo. The spider goes back up, the strobe switches off and the lamp comes back on. How It Works The control box.
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That Wedding Playlist In Full

Dancing In The Street - Martha Reeves And The Vandellas Papa’s Got A Brand New Bag - James Brown You Can’t Hurry Love - Diana Ross And The Supremes Going To A Go Go - Smokey Robinson Think - Aretha Franklin In The Midnight Hour - Wilson Picket Knock On Wood - Eddie Floyd Needle In A Haystack - The Velvelettes Itchycoo Park - Small Faces Brown Sugar - The Rolling Stones Lola - The Kinks Paperback Writer - The Beatles Ride A White Swan - Marc Bolan & T Rex Rebel Rebel - David Bowie Heart Of Glass - Blondie In Between Days - The Cure This Charming Man - The Smiths Dancing Queen - ABBA Jumpin’ Jack Flash - The Rolling Stones (Edited Wayne Carr intro to Motherbanger from Chris Morris’ Radio 1 Music Show) Here Comes Your Man - Pixies Something Changed - Pulp Friday I’m In Love - The Cure Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes Panic - The Smiths Queen Bitch - David Bowie Debaser - Pixies Seether - Veruca Salt Razzmatazz - Pulp Hey Hey 16K - MJ Hibbett & The Validators Lipgloss - Pulp Shut Up And Let Me Go - The Ting Tings Babies - Pulp Disco 2000 (Nick Cave Pub Rock Version) - Pulp Buy Nothing Day - The Go! Team Where It’s At - Beck How Soon Is Now - The Smiths All carefully edited together in Audacity to remove gaps. Our attempt to side-step the first dance thing with Dancing In The Street failed. The song says “every guy grab a girl” but everyone was too busy ogling us. I had thought people would be danced out by the final track, but no. It had to be skipped in favour of something more up beat.
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