We also put the church location on each photo. This takes a bit of work but it’s worth it because your description travels with your photo when people share it.
Ideally, you have a church photographer with a professional camera and an additional volunteer that takes photos from the guests’ phone at the same time. Take tons of pictures at the event and give the handout to each family that attends.Let people know you will email them their picture. This is great to do while people are waiting in line for their photos. (Let them type their information in.) You can also perforate the handout to use it as a way to collect people’s contact information. A Text In Church keyword is our favorite way to do this. Develop a handout telling people where they can find their picture using that bitly link.
Use the URL from the album to create a bitly link for the album so people can easily get to it. Click on the timestamp of the album so that it opens the album on its own page.In the description for the album, we put information about our church, a link to our website, and either a general invite to services or a specific invite to the next big thing that’s happening.You can also take some fun photos of the team setting up the booth to kick start the album. We use the event graphic for the first pic in the album. We normally title ours with the event name and the year. Go ahead and set up a Facebook album on your page.A green screen creates more work to add the background graphic to the photo, but it can also create more anticipation because the event attendees don’t know what the photo will end up looking like until they see it on your Facebook album. Set up your photo booth with background or green screen at the event.Some families will never be able to afford family photos. Families love opportunities to make memories. Promote that you are having a photo booth at your upcoming event.This is a great way to utilize volunteer creatives, decorators, photographers, designers, and administrators.
Recruit volunteers to help you throughout this process.Here are some example ones we have done: Christmas, Tailgating, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Sisterhood, Baptism, Christmas Eve (links to other examples at the bottom of this article.)