10 Essential Photo Booth Props for Your Rustic Wedding

The best photo booths have the best props. Find out the ten most essential photo booth props for your rustic wedding here.

As you plan your wedding, you have to build in time to take photos after the ceremony. If your reception is immediately following, though, your guests may be milling around with nothing to do. Enter: the photo booth.

This ideal option for entertainment doesn't require the newlyweds to be there, nor does it need a lot of set up. Get some photo booth props that go with your wedding decor, and your guests won't even notice you were missing until you make your grand entrance.

Here are some fun ideas for props at your rustic wedding.

1. Most Important Photo Booth Props: Cowboy Hats

How can you have a country wedding without cowboy hats? Get all the colors and a few different styles. You may have guests packing in the people, trying to see how many can fit in the cardboard frame you set up in the photo booth area.

Make sure you're well-supplied, and that you have a couple of different sizes. Guests may take one picture, then trade hats for the next snap. They'll think of all kinds of funny photo ops, as long as you provide the right props.

Having plenty means that if the cowboy hats happen to disappear for a trip around the dance floor, there will still be plenty in the photo booth for latecomers.

2. Bolo Ties

Bow ties are fun photo booth props for traditional weddings, but at a country wedding, give it a twist. String ties called bolo ties, made from leather or cord, are how cowboys used to dress up. They'd trade their bandanas (which doubled as dust masks) for bolo ties before they took a lady out to the dance.

Bandanas are a good idea, too, if you need another around-the-neck option for photo props.

3. Funny Signs

You can't have a photo booth without the words on a stick. Some are labels you give yourself or your friends, that include arrows (gotta make sure whoever looks at the photo knows who you're making fun of). Others are words of congratulations for the happy couple.

Of course, a must-have option is your wedding hashtag. You'll also want to include country sayings like these:

• Howdy pardner
• Giddy up
• Yee-haw
• City Slicker
• In Cahoots
• I came for the hoedown

You'll also have several that pertain to your wedding in particular, but these will get you started. Creating new ideas for photo booth phrases is a great job for your funniest groomsmen.

4. Casino-Style Accouterments

There's a reason aces and eights is a dead man's hand. Wild Bill Hickock made the poker hand famous when he was killed holding those cards, but poker was a country boy's game long before the unfortunate gunslinger popularized his specific hand of cards.

Get some poker chips or a few playing cards for guests to use in the photo booth. Other casino or gambling-themed prop options include big fake cigars, mustaches, and a dealer's visor.

Be sure to keep the photo booth open during the whole reception, before and after you cut the cake. Some guests may take a minute to warm up to the idea of being silly in front of other people. But casino props might be what brings them out of their shells.

5. Old-Fashioned Tools

Guests may enjoy posing with old washtubs, washboards, and wooden tools. You can hang white towels with lace trim or doilies on them to make a background for the photo booth, or you can include the items as props.

6. Plastic Beer Mugs

When cowboys of old weren't riding the range, they were spending time playing a friendly game of poker in the saloon, and washing the dust down with large mugs of the local beer (or sarsaparilla). Plastic mug replicas with a frosty look are perfect for posing mid-toast, as you raise a glass to the newlyweds.

If you're having a dry wedding, you can try blue or black tin cups with white flecks, the kind you think of hanging over an open fire. Those will make guests feel as nostalgic for the open range as the frosty mugs.

7. Toy Guns

Cowboys were all about shooting up the town, especially when they'd had too much whiskey at the local saloon. If you can find some cheap revolver-style gun props, your guests will love posing like the black-hat gunslingers of the Old West.

Make sure they have orange caps on the ends so everyone who sees the photos knows they're just toys. You can also provide holster belts, too, if your camera extends to waist level.

8. Aprons

The ladies may like to feel a little extra country bumpkin by donning a sweet apron (include a couple if you think more than one would like them). Whether you pick white ones or a calico pattern, this type of accessory hearkens back to days of churning butter and cooking in an old iron stove.

For the gents, you can stock a vest or two, and even a coonskin cap.

9. Bouquets of Country Blooms

You don't have to get your florist to make up anything expensive for your photo booth. Use silk blooms from the craft store to make a bouquet of country wildflowers that guests can pose with in the photo booth. You could even put them in a basket to give it more of a country feel.

10. Hobby Horses

Get a couple of stick horses for your guests to pretend to ride. Even if the camera doesn't go past waist level, guests can hold these horses a little higher so they show up in the picture. They'll love to pretend they're riding through tall wheat fields, or rearing up to save the day like the Lone Ranger.

Your Photo Booth Memories

Giving your guests something to do while they haven't loosened up yet helps them pass the time until you and your sweetie arrive. The right country photo booth props will make the snapshots part of a memorable reception, along with a unique souvenir to take home.

As you think about other aspects of your big day, request a tour of Windsong Ranch wedding venue today. See how we can make your rustic country wedding the perfect day you've dreamed of.