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capturing / photographing child's birthday party

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emmac3616 · 05/10/2014 16:16

Hi there
I am a first time mum and we are coming up for my DS's first birthday in December. We're planning a small birthday party for him and I would love to get lots of photos but hate the idea of spending my whole time taking them, and not focusing on him / the party / the guests. What do people normally do? I know the other people coming are not bothered by photos and won't take them. For his christening I paid our wedding photographer to come along but that was quite expensive. What did everyone else do? I am weirdly obsessed by photos - I just love them!
All thoughts very welcome!
Emma

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Doodledot · 05/10/2014 16:37

Ask around and see if anyone will do it for you - I have done it for friends

LastingLight · 05/10/2014 16:57

Just a random thought... if you have a high school with a photography club, maybe hire one of the students?

nomorecrumbs · 05/10/2014 17:01

Buy disposable cameras/ask all guests to send you their pics as part of or instead of presents.

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tassisssss · 05/10/2014 17:03

Can you nominate an uncle/auntie to be in charge of this?

Thankfully for us my brother is a fab photographer and just uploads his pics to dropbox for us afterwards. I am so grateful as I'm rubbish at remembering such!

CoffeeBucks · 05/10/2014 17:04

I've done this for friends and family a few times - do you know anyone who is handy with a camera?

pippinleaf · 05/10/2014 22:37

Are you inviting anyone who doesn't have kids? I think they'd be glad of having a job to do.

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