OK this was my set up for my last bridal show let me see yours
I have a few changes to make before the next one in 2 weeks...
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Looks good Steven! I like the hanging matted images on the back wall. Very cool!

That is pretty cool! I like the steel against blue - and the curtain rod is funky and cool. I went to a big bridal expo yesterday to get some booth ideas, and I saw a few that did the "pictures hanging from above" idea - it is really visually interesting.

I am doing my first one at the end of this month. I managed to find a wedding decorator who is in serious need of some good product shots, so I offered to do some photos for her at the next few gigs she decorates in exchange for a good discount on her decorating my booth. It worked! I'll post photos after the 28th some time.

i'm doing a women's fair next month to advertise my children's photography... I'd LOVE to see some more people's set up for inspiration

ha ha ha. this makes me laugh (not at steven's set up - i LOVE it), but at the fact that my first bridal show 2 years ago,.. i got stuck doing that kind of set up because i was given incorrect information by the show producers. they told me the main back-curtain's rod was so-and-so size, so i went to get some s-hooks to hang from them,.. WRONG.. none of them fit, because the rod was 10x as big as what they said, and no s-hook would fit!.. so, out of the 2 or 3 hours i had to set up, and after getting SO mad at the whole situation, i found myself with only 25 minutes left until the show started...i wound up climbing on a chair, stretching as high as i could witout falling (i'm only 5'1")... i somehoe managed to hang my frames using picture wire, and they "floated" in the air in front of the curtain (the pic wire was black against a black curtain).... anyway, the show turned out great, and many people were loving my set up, (in comparison to everyone else's set up with no more than a table & 2 large gold-framed prints on easels).

last year, i perfected that same technique a little (forgot to take any pictures because i was very swamped!)
and THIS year, i am very excited, because i have a totally new idea of how to set it all up. extremely awesome, if i do say so myself... of course, i don't have pictures yET, but i will, and i'll be sure to post!

I am going to bring a black background next time.

I like your booth layout (would move that back easel to the other side to tie the table to the background and allow viewers to approach the suspended images and get a closer look -- and corral them in).

With a black background I use black ribbon to suspend the images on the rod so the wires wouldn't distract from the overall look & feel.

Use a single piece of 1.5-2" black ribbon and attach to one side of the picture then loop over the rod and attach the other end to the other side of the picture.

Just my 2 cents.

We just did our first bridal fair this weekend. Hopefully we will get some calls from it. Here are some pics of our booth.

Wow!!!
Beautiful set up Steven and Carli.

where did you get those little easles for the table top to hold the big images? I NEED those

At the local craft store, "Micheal's" (I am not sure if they are a big chain or not. They were table top paint easels and we spray ainted them black. We found them very helpful.

Here was the booth Danielle Gillett and I set up last year:

is that where you got the folding screen with all the frames for photos, too? I have one like that at my moms but she live's 3000 miles away so not so convenient. I'd like to replace it.

wow carli - love that set up! i use black & hot pink as well... very nice ideas... oooh i can't ait until the show!:)

I am not sure where to folding screen is from. It was my sisters and she didn't use it much, plus she is trying to clean out stuff for a new baby coming in April so she gave me her's, and I painted it black.

I've seen the folding screens at Michael's, Hobby Lobby, and even Big Lots.

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regina???? you said you'd have some pics up here too:)