Why Photo Magnets Might Be the Wedding Photo Booth Alternative You Haven’t Thought Of

If you're planning your wedding, there's a pretty good chance you've already thought about a photo booth.

They're fun. They give your guests something to do. And everyone gets a little photo to take home.

But there is another option that gives your guests a little more choice: live wedding photo magnets.

What if your guests could choose the photo they actually wanted to remember?

One of the things I love most about weddings is that there are hundreds of little moments happening at the same time.

Your photographer can't possibly capture every conversation, every laugh between friends, every selfie with grandparents or every ridiculous photo your bridesmaids take on the dance floor.

And chances are, you won't see most of those photographs while your wedding is actually happening.

That's what makes live photo magnets a little different.

It's not another posed photo.

A traditional photo booth normally gives guests a photograph taken in one particular place, at one particular moment.

Sometimes it's brilliant.

Sometimes someone has their eyes closed, someone doesn't like how they look, or it simply isn't the photograph they would have chosen to remember your wedding by.

With live wedding photo magnets, your guests can choose a photograph already sitting on their phone from your celebration.

It might be the photo they took with the bride five minutes after the ceremony. A table selfie with people they haven't seen in years. Their kids dressed up for the wedding. A beautiful photo with their partner. Or the ridiculous dance-floor photo that somehow becomes their favourite image of the entire night.

Your wedding, through your guests' eyes.

Throughout the reception, guests simply scan your personalised QR code, choose their favourite photograph and upload it straight from their phone.

Their photograph is then printed and turned into a real pressed photo magnet during your wedding.

The finished magnets are placed onto the display board ready for your guests to find and take home.

No app to download. No trying to remember where the photo booth strip ended up. And no choosing between four nearly identical posed photographs.

A wedding favour they'll actually take home.

Wedding favours are one of those things couples can spend a surprising amount of money on, only to find half of them still sitting on the tables at the end of the night.

A photograph is different because it's personal.

More importantly, it's their photograph.

Your guests aren't taking home your wedding logo or another generic keepsake. They're taking home a memory they chose from your day.

That could be:

• a photo with the newlyweds
• a family photograph
• a bridesmaid or groomsmen photo
• a beautiful candid moment
• a dance-floor memory
• a photo of friends reunited for your wedding

And once they get home, it can go straight onto their fridge instead of disappearing into a drawer.

You get to discover the photos too.

There's another part of the experience that I think is pretty special.

While you're busy getting married, talking to guests, cutting the cake and trying to somehow be everywhere at once, your guests are photographing your wedding from completely different perspectives.

The photo magnet experience gives you a glimpse into all of those little moments happening around you.

They're often not staged or perfectly composed.

They're just real.

And sometimes those end up being the photographs that capture the feeling of the night better than anything else.

So, photo booth or photo magnets?

They create two very different experiences.

If you love the idea of props, posed photos and a traditional photo booth setup, a photo booth might be perfect for you.

But if you'd rather let your guests choose their favourite photograph from your entire wedding day and turn it into something they can actually keep, live photo magnets might be worth considering.

It's part wedding favour, part guest experience and part collection of moments you probably would never have seen otherwise.