What do funny hats, big glasses and big red lips have in common? Funico photo booth FUN! In keeping with our name (FUNico), we’re always on the lookout for new, fun photo ideas. This past weekend, we photographed Crystal & Pete’s wedding at the Valley Regency in Clifton, NJ and as part of the festivities, we set up a photo booth. The boa, fake guns and big moustaches quickly got attention and we had a line of people before we were done setting up!
To Crystal & Pete – many congrats again and we had a blast seeing what your friends & family did with the funny props!
And, of course, we ourselves had to participate as well!
We’d like to start our anniversary series with Salwa & Ahmed, who got married on April 5, 2009 and had their reception at the Valley Regency in New Jersey. We knew quite a few people at the event since we had photographed the weddings of many of Salwa’s friends! This is one of our favorite wedding photos of Salwa. She was just about to get into her limo and we caught her in our side view mirror.
Doesn’t Salwa look so happy here?  She and Ahmed are about to start their Zaffa. Many of you reading this are probably saying “a what?” A Zaffa is an Egyptian wedding march led by performers in colorful garb with tambourines and other instruments. That’s part of the fun of our job - we get to see how different cultures and religions celebrate marriage. We’ve found that wedding celebrations across different cultures have a lot in common. It must be because love is universal AND we all like to party.
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Here’s Ahmed at the Zaffa with his wedding party. You can see some of the performers with tambourines in the background.
Hmm…since most of them are kneeling, you can’t really see the groomsmen very well. What is that we hear? You want to see their handsome faces more clearly? Voila!
This is another fantastic Egyptian wedding custom- dancing with swords. As you can see, Ahmed and his brother are very good at this.
In February, we called Ahmed and told him about a great anniversary gift idea we had for them. Salwa loved the slide show we had put together of their wedding day highlights. We asked Ahmed to say a few words and then, we added his voice and message to the slide show and sent it to them for their anniversary. Our intuition paid off because Salwa loved it! In Salwa’s words, “I looove everything!!…Thank you so much for being a part of the most amazing day of our lives- I really feel like we’re family and am a little sad we don’t have any more work to do together.”
To see the slide show we created, click on the image below.
A new year started 2 months ago. On to new beginnings and new experiences. We’d like to take a few moments to reminisce about 2009 and announce our 2009 Best Funico Wedding Photo contest. The slide show below has our favorite wedding images from last year. We obviously couldn’t narrow them down. Help us select the best 2009 wedding photography image by casting your vote! CAST YOUR VOTE BY POSTING A COMMENT BELOW. Only 1 vote per person please. The name of each picture is the number below it. For example, the first photo is called “1.”
We’d like to give an award to the winning photo. The winning image will receive a complimentary 16X20 gallery wrap. Of course, if the winning couple prefers, we’d be happy to give them a 16X20 gallery wrap of another picture from their wedding (maybe they’d like to hang something else on their wall!) CONTEST WILL CLOSE AT 12AM ON 03/04/10.
We will post the results on 03/08/10.
We searched high and low for an appropriate song. After looking at a lot of “best 2009 song” lists, we decided on Beyonce’s “Sweet Dreams.” Great lyrics for newlyweds, don’t you think?
We had a lot of fun putting this together. It sure brought back a lot of memories. Hope you have fun watching the slide show! AND, DON’T FORGET TO CAST YOUR VOTE BY 03/04/10.
