This week I’m showing you a post I’ve been waiting to show you for a long time! I’m going to show you our photo booth tutorial so that you can build your own for one of your fantastic parties! My husband built this and it didn’t take him that long but I know it was a lot of work.
This was my inspiration picture. A few years ago we went to a family friend’s wedding and they had this awesome photo booth! It was unlike any photo booth I had ever seen, or have seen since, so I had to try to re-create it!!!
I forgot to start taking pictures before this but all he had done was to frame the particle boards and then hinge them together. We thought hinges would be important for future storage purposes.
We had these headers laying on the side of our house, from our shower remodel, so he cut slots out of them to slide the photo booth into.
Then the next step was trying to figure out where all of the cut out frames would go.
I held them up and Matt outlined them with a pencil. Then he cut them out with a jigsaw. I was very impressed at how accurate we was able to cut with it!
Malea approved. 🙂
After that we wallpapered the board and then screwed in all of the frames. I’d show you pictures of our wallpapering, we did a great job, but it would be useless. Apparently wallpaper doesn’t stick to crappy particle board so the morning after we had wallpapered the photo booth, it had completely come off. I was SO bummed!!! Desperate to get it finished, and out of ideas, we brought out the staple gun and stapled the wallpaper down. It wasn’t ideal but I think it still turned out great. So note to self: next time buy the expensive board so that the wallpaper will stick.
Here is the finished product.
Matt did a fabulous job!!!
Let the party begin!
I love this man. 🙂
Don’t I have the prettiest friends?!
These are our friends the Littau’s. This lovely lady on the left is the reason I’m able to get so much work done because she is always willing to watch my daughter.
These are our friends the Fosters. They won best dressed for the night–I’m sure you can see why!
This is my sister, Alisha on the left, me in the middle, and my sister in law, Becky, on the right.
Just a little sass. 🙂
Maria-Isabel made this beautiful headband for my sister. It was perfect!
Bethany, on the left, is responsible for taking all of these amazing pictures!
This is me with the girls that get my booty out of bed at 5:30am to go running a couple times a week. 🙂
As you can see I had a great time and the photo booth was a huge success!
To see more pictures from the party click here.
Oh my gosh! I love this! One day I'm going to have an awesome party and I'll have to make one of these! I love the pic of the chic sticking her foot out through the lower frame! Too cute! Looks like the party was a huge success! Thanks for hosting!
This is such a cute idea! You and your husband did an amazing job! You have such fun friends that they would dress up for your party! If I had a party like this, I might be the only one that went all out! ha!
What an awesome photo booth! I love how everyone seemed to get so into the theme – those photos look so fun! Your outfits are all amazing! Have a great week!JennP.S. Thanks so much for featuring my bulletin boards. 🙂
What a great idea! Loved to see all those pictures! I bet you all had lots of fun! Thank for hosting Anna, have a great week :)Veronica
Oh my goodness, you and your husband are so talented, the photo booth looks amazing! It's such a fun idea, looks as though it was a real hit.Thanks for hosting, have a great week.
Wow, I love how talented you are! The photobooth is so creative! Thanks for hostins, as always!
Thanks for hosting, that is the funnest photobooth I have ever seen!!Carlee
My quick tip was the most viewed?! Thank you so much! I love the photo booth. You did an amazing job and how fun to capture fun memories of the party and your friends. Thanks for hosting again.
So insanely awesome. I really hope you link this up on Thursday! Throwback Thursday link partieswww.luxeboulevard.blogspot.com
This is one of the cutest ideas I've ever seen. Absolutely love it!! Thanks for sharing.
This is so awesome! You could totally rent it out I think, or sell it to a photographer if you didn't want it anymore =)
How cool is that?! I love the tutorial and especially the booth! The pictures are awesome!
Your picture booth is absolutely, ridiculously, AMAZING!!!! No lie. I have been thinking of making a mini-booth for my sons first birthday. It is owl themed, so I was thinking a tree of sorts.
from someone who was at the party, I have to say that the photobooth was truly amazing! We had so much fun with it! Anna knows how to throw a party!!!
It was so fun to be apart of it Anna! Your photobooth turned out AMAZING! You are so gifted and creative 🙂
So jealous! I would love to have a party like this! your photo booth turned out awesome!
What a FUN project! I love the photos taken with it! Thank you for linking to Handy Man, Crafty Woman Wicked Awesome Wednesday!
Awesome! I have been researching photo booths for a long time so we could build one. I like this one the best with all the cutouts. What did you put on the bottom to keep it from falling? Is there a wider beam or something?Thanks,LL
No way. How fun is that? Great job.
That would be so cute for a wedding!
Wow this is SO awesome! I absolutly LOVE this, it looks like SO much fun! Thanks for showing the how to.. and for the shout out! 🙂 You are awesome! That party looks like it was a lot of fun. 🙂 Oh and I just LOVE that pic of you (the just a little sass one) You are so beautiful! Both you and Alisha.. gorgeous women!
Wow! That is amazing! Not sure I could do something so hardcore, but I absolutely love the end result!New follower from the Weekend Wrap Up Party, would appreciate it if you wouldn't mind following me back.Suzannazannidify.blogspot.com
Your photo booth is AMAZING! I wish I was there because it looks like so much fun! 🙂 Themed dress-up parties have been my fave ever since I was a little girl (that's why I like Halloween so much)! lol I found you via the t & j blog hop and am your newest follower. :)I would love for you to check my blog out too…I also having a blog link up party going on now…Jamieday-and-age-design.com
ADORABLE photo booth – I love the idea!Andrea
Thanks for the feature!
That is adorable! I LOVE it! I have a friend who does photo booths at all of her parites and I am definitely sending this along to her! Thanks for the idea and for the linky party! I don't have anything to link today, but I do love to browse through!~Kristi
Wow! I agree, you have such lovely friends! And this is really a fabulous project! The photo booth was really a success! We love this so much that we are featuring it on the blog tomorrow. Votation will start on the same day. Do grab a featured button if you fancy doing so ^^)Have a lovely weekend!
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I love this! Thank you so much for sharing all of your ideas and the tutorials! Can't wait for my husband's 35th Birthday!
Hi Anna,
This photo booth is amazing. I’d love to know the dimensions of it if you could help me out? I’d love to do something similar for a party I’m throwing soon.
Regards
Reb.
Thank you Reb! I don’t actually have it anymore so I can’t give you the exact dimensions but I know to start we bought two large pieces of plywood and put them together with the folding brackets. I hope that helps.
Omg!!! Such a cute party and I am in live with your picture booth. Absolutely love it. Did you use anything in the back of the particle board for support?
I didn’t get the part about where it Looks like two boards were hinged together on a thick board?
I am having a 1920s theme party next sat and would love to give it a try. Thank you.
Per my husband: We built it on a frame of 2x4s so the hinges were attached to the 2x4s. I hope that helps. 🙂
i am on a tight timeline and have to come up with a photo backdrop for a 1920 inspired ball i have volunteered for. any suggestions on how to construct something like the photo booth you have blogged about, but only on a smaller scale?
If you’re just looking or a back drop I would just get a patterned sheet and hang it up, and then have big empty frames for people to hold up and use as the “photobooth”. 🙂