instax.

I have to admit to a little love affair that I've had over the last year. {Don't worry--my husband and I are fine!} It's with my Fuji Instax camera...i.e. the "new" Polaroid-esque camera on the market. I first heard about the Instax camera via my ever-fabulous wedding photographer when trying to come up with something fun for our guestbook. We invested in an Instax camera of our own a few months before the wedding...and I've been borderline obsessed ever since. I opted for the biggest of the Instax models, the 210, because it produces slightly larger photos.

Instax cameras produce those lovely vintage-y photos which always make my heart sing. I wanted to have a guestbook at the wedding which would make us smile 20--even 50--years from now. Let me tell you, the guestbook went over fabulously! Our guests simply took a quick snapshot in front of a vintage map {I'll share photos soon!}, slid it into the guestbook and signed that page. It turned out perfectly! We even used the same set-up at our second celebration in July.


With this love affair in mind, I have to show you a few snapshots from our European honeymoon :)

{taken 4.17.10 by {cv} 100 yards from the Eiffel tower}

If anyone remembers the volcanic ash travel chaos this past April, you'll realize that happened right smack dab in the middle of our "lune de miel" {excuse my mumbly French}. The picture above was taken about 4 hours before we found out our flight home was cancelled. I just love the judgment from the girls on the bench! ;)


{cv} always made fun of me for packing this enormous camera while we galavanted around Paris. He snickered every time I pulled it out, but I still carried it with pride. It took up my entire medium-sized Longchamp bag. I didn't mind. I have some unforgettable sights on film. I know every photo captures a moment in time, but with the Instax, they seem a little more romantic. Or whimsical. Or something!

{taken 4.19.10 by {av} in the American Cemetery at Normandy}

I will never complain about the volcanic ash because it extended our honeymoon by four days. Four blissful, wonderful days. We were able to see so much more as a result. We took an incredible day trip to the Normandy beaches, which was quite an experience. We even got to add a new country to {cv}'s travel résumé--Italy--because they had to reroute our flight back to New England through Rome. 

{taken 4.22.10 by {av} in the Rome airport}

This isn't necessarily the best picture of either of us {the husband looks like he's missing a tooth--he's not!}, but it's the last photo I took on our honeymoon. sigh. 

I saw my dear Instax in two very public places recently and was decidedly a little hurt that my love affair had been exposed. I got an Urban Outfitters catalog {amongst all the others I receive!} and the Instax graced the back cover...though they were charging almost triple what I paid for ours on UniquePhoto. It also popped up on a recent episode of Grey's Anatomy {as seen below}.

{screenshot of ABC}

I knew I had to come clean about this love affair with all of you ;) More to come about our honeymoon in future posts! 

Hope your week is going well! xoxo {av}