Blown away by the decorating at tonights wedding!

When we take the photo booth to receptions in LDS cultural halls, I don't expect to be blown away by the decorating. Tonight was different! You could not tell you were in a cultural hall. It was amazingly beautiful. I did not bring a camera or my flip video recorder. I wish I could post how amazing it was. So I will just have to show you some pictures I copied from their website.

Before

After

I think Derek & Michelle's reception tonight was even better than this one! If you are thinking about having your reception at a church, call Legacy Wedding and Events 801-541-1021. It was really so impressive that I had to come home and post something about it.

Photo Booth Deciding Factors: The Shout Out Video!

 

We are pleased to be one of two photo booths in Utah that offer the "shout out" video. After guests are done posing for pictures, a prompt appears on the touch screen asking if they would like to record a video for the bride & groom. The guests can then give congratulations, advice or act wacky for up to 30 seconds.

This weekend we will put the video feature on display at the Night of the Living Dead Race. Our booth will be transformed into the "secret zombie confessional chamber" and we will be vending 30 second zombie videos for the event, It will truly be a unique photo booth experience that would not be possible if we did not have the shout out video option.

Get more bang for your money and book one of the only photo booths that offer the shout out video!

October Contest for $300 off photo booth rental package

We are looking for two couples that are getting married in the next 12 weeks. We will have an online "tug of war" between the two couples. The couples will have one week to get as many of their friends to vote for them as they can. At the end of seven days, the couple with the most votes will win the tug of war and will get $300 off a photo booth wedding package (regularly priced at $500 for the basic package and $650 for the ultimate package).

The Rules

1. Interested couples should post their names, date of wedding, time and location of wedding or reception to our Facebook wall. You must be getting married before 12/31/2011.
2. We will verify our availability for that date and time and reply to your wall post. We will take the first two couples that post for a time we are available.
3. Once verified, you will send us a couples picture that we can use in the application.
4. We are hoping to start the contest 10/1/2011 at 8:00 AM. We will close voting on 10/8/2011 at 8:00 AM.
5. You will send a link to the application to all of your friends and have them help you get votes.
6. It will be set up so each person can only vote once.
7. The wedding event must take place in Weber, Davis, Morgan, Cache, Box Elder, Salt Lake and Summit Counties.

Please send a link of this page to anyone that you know that is getting married in the next three months.This is going to be fun!
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Photo Booth Deciding Factors: It's About Time

A question we frequently get asked is:
Why do you offer three hours of service as part of your basic wedding package? My reception is only for two hours.

It is our goal to have the photo booth up and operating 30 minutes prior to the start of the reception. This gives the bride and groom time to use the photo booth before things get too crazy. It also lets the family and wedding party get some fun photos together before the bulk of the guests arrive. In most cases, the line at the photo booth is still going strong after the scheduled end time of the reception. In our experience, a typical two hour reception needs three hours of service.

On average, it takes guests around one minute  to use our booth. This time will vary a little between each photo booth company based on their printing speed and how things are configured. Most guests will use the photo booth in pairs or couples. If you are expecting 300 guests at your reception, you will need at least two and a half hours of photo booth time.

This is why we have priced our three hour service comparable to what most companies charge for two hours. Your special day is worth taking a little extra time!

Photo Booth Deciding Factors: Printing Speed

Most all photo booth rental services offer unlimited double prints for a set period of time. So what makes a companies 3 hour unlimited photo booth service different from another company offering the same service for the same amount of time? 

 

Print Speed

 

There are many different photo booth printers that utilize different technologies on the market. One of the most common printing processes used in digital photo booths is called dye-sublimation. It is a good fit for photo booths because it prints fairly fast and the photos are  dry within a second of printing. Traditional photos and ink jet photos print slower and have a longer dry time.

 

At Catch Photo Booths, we use a Mitsubishi dye-sublimation printer. It prints and cuts double strip photos in 8 seconds. Some photo booths take much longer to print (over 30 seconds). It is also wise to rent a photo booth that automatically cuts the double photo strips. 

 

Three hours of double prints in a very fast photo booth ensures that many more guests will get use the photo booth and the line will move at a fast pace.

Before you rent a photo booth service, ask the following questions:

How fast does booth print double strips?

Does it automatically cut the strips?

This will help you compare photo booth rental companies and will help you get the most bang for your buck.

When was the last time you looked at the guest book from your wedding?

We haven't looked at our guest book in many years. I know it is buried somewhere in our storage space. I suspect that many people don't look at their guest books after they send out thank you cards.

The Dilemma:
So much time and energy was wasted on putting together a roster of guests that attended the biggest event of your life, and you haven't even noticed it in years. Why you might ask? Because, after many years it just becomes a list of names.

So go dig up the guest book from your wedding, I want to ask you a few questions:
1. How many of those names do you even recognize?
2. Can you remember what they looked like?

I really would be interested to read some responses.

The Solution
Don't let your children, friends and love ones make the same mistake we all made. Rent our photo booth for them. The guests get two strips of pictures. They keep one; and then they post the other in a scrap book for the bride and groom. Now that name has some funny faces to go with it! Our booth also has a "shout out" video feature that lets the guests record a short video for the bride and groom. At the end of the event we put all of the images and videos on DVD for the happy couple.

So instead of a book of merely names, you can "catch" many memories that you can remember for years to come.

Catch Photo Booths is joining the Team Shannon Cause

Join us September 24th at Jensen Park in Syracuse as we help with Team Shannon fund raising effort. There will be a 5K, pancake breakfast, silent auction, kids corner and of course the most awesome photo booth in the world. All of the proceeds we raise from the photo booth will go to Shannon and her family. I can't imagine what it would be like to experience what they have been through the last few years. Please join us at this event.

Here is a little background about Shannon and her battle with leukemia.
At the age of eight, Shannon Johnson received the heartbreaking diagnosis of leukemia. Following many months of cancer treatments and extended hospital stays, Shannon went into remission. The good news was short lived however when just two years later she relapsed. This time Shannon would need chemo, total body radiation, and a bone marrow transplant. She is once again in remission! The hearta...che, stress and financial obligations have been a tremendous burden to her family. A year later, Shannon is still happily in remission but will need continued medical care for years to come. Because of this, family and friends of Shannon have come together to hold a fundraising event. This fundraiser will include a 5K race, live and silent auctions, a pancake breakfast, a kid’s corner and more! 

I will post more information as the event gets closer. Here is her Facebook page:  http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Team-Shannon/158698660873077?sk=wall