My husband and I recently got married this past March (yay!) and loved how many special touches were added to make our day special. Now that the wedding is over, I have the time to share how those details came to be and how they worked out.
I love children and was actually kind of disappointed when the guest list to our wedding only had 7 "kids" on the guest list. To me, they are the best part of a wedding! I wanted to have something for them to do that was easy to put together, not messy, and appropriate for all ages. Just to give you an idea, our young guests were 16 months, 4, 7, 10, 11, 13, and 14. Goody bags were my first idea and I began gathering items for each young ones interests but that quickly became expensive.
While scouring the internet one night for ideas, I came across photo scavenger hunts. I took some ideas from the ones online I found plus added a few of my own for our specific day. One of my bridesmaids helped with the hunt, too! I used my awesome font Husband showed me how to download, ordered cameras from the Knot during one of their sales, wrapped them up, added a pencil to use to check off the list, and this is what I got:
My MOH's sister passed them out (I made a check list for all their names, what table they were at, and if they returned them). The kids loved them! Especially my flower girl and ring bearer. After our honeymoon, Husband and I got them developed and loved seeing our reception through the kids eyes. Sure the photo quality isn't great, but there are some great shots and they were some of the first photos we saw of the wedding. We got the pictures printed at Target, sent the prints to the kids to have and kept the photo disc for ourselves!
Without the cameras, who would have captured shots like these?
This is something you could do with all guests, too! You could even make it a 'digital photo scavenger hunt'. Make a card for each table or guest, have them take photos with their own cameras then upload them to a share site. We did a share site for photos but not for a scavenger hunt. Guests received little cards (moo.com!) that had a fun picture of us on the front and information on how to login to a shutterfly.com site to share the photos they took on the day of. I know Facebook is popular with uploading photos but this way, we can order prints if we like! One guest even gave us a gift certificate to the site for us to make a photobook using the pictures provided by our guests! Love it!
The goody bag items did not go to waste! The 16 month old received one because he was a little young for a photo scavenger hunt. His had a toy car, a board book, and some goldfish crackers. I used most of what I bought for the other goody bags on the 3 kids coming to the rehearsal dinner. I wanted them to have something since it's a long evening of visiting and toasts. Theirs included scratch boards, play-doh, mini checkers, magic tricks, and silly bands.
There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer. ~Ansel Adams
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I have the time to share how those details came to be and how they worked out.Photo scavenger Hunts
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