Our slight wobble didn’t impact the photos but made some people a little uncomfortable on it. Since you’ll be indoors, consider using the wall or ceiling to secure the moon. The only thing about that, though, is that when people’s feet cannot touch the ground when sitting on the bench it makes the effect of sitting in the moon work a bit better. To make your life easier, you could alter the design to work around a bench (piano or otherwise) that you already have. Or you can buy a backdrop stand and hang a printed, textured, or patterned cloth to use as the background for your photos. You can make the backdrop yourself, and get crafty with party supplies and decorations. Since we had to break ours down and transport it those things weren’t really possible. Every great photo taken in your do it yourself photo booth setup will be in front of a backdrop. In retrospect, I would have made the bench heavier (though not bigger) and would have added an additional brace from the top of the moon straight back and down since it tended to wobble a bit. The bench size was based on allowing two people to sit side by side as well as adding enough ballast to keep the moon upright. After these photos were taken, I added another, smaller piece of plywood to the bottom of the seat that was notched in the corners so that it fit inside the bench frame and we could secure the seat from sliding sideways. We cut the batting and cloth large enough to overlap the plywood to ensure splinter-free edges and allow us to staple it all to the bottom of the seat. We cut another piece of plywood, some batting, and some faux leather cloth to size, and stapled it all in place. In order to make things a bit more comfortable, we added an upholstered seat.
In hindsight, this bench could have used some diagonal bracing, so, if you build one, I’d recommend adding that to the design.Īs you can see in the photo, I labeled all parts carefully as I constructed them to ensure that we’d be able to get the moon back together properly at our wedding venue. To finish the bench framing, I cut two more legs from the 2×4 and screwed it all together with the 1×3 cross pieces. If you have questions that aren’t addressed here, please get in touch and I’ll be happy to help if I can. You CAN do it yourself with not much time or money spent. For the sake of anyone wishing to have a paper moon at their wedding too, I will go into some detail about how we did it. With the photography logistics in very capable hands, we were able to turn our attention to designing and building a paper moon.
We had intended for our paper moon to be a self-serve, photo-booth-style affair, but when we asked our photographer for some advice on setting up a camera, flash, and remote, he loved the idea so much that he offered to take the photos himself! Some settings were simple, barely realistic, with nothing more than a moon painted on canvas (or perhaps paper, I suppose) while others included multiple layers of clouds and stars. To achieve these floating-in-space images, a painted background and set were created in a photographer’s studio (or a circus tent or a booth on a boardwalk) and an individual or group would be arranged to look as though they were sitting upon the crescent moon. While information is a bit hard to come by (on the internet, anyway), it seems that paper moon pictures were popular in the early part of the 20th century – especially in the 1920s and 30s.
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