Bellows Styled PhotoBooth

Posted 7/31/16 in: Martha’s Vineyard New Hampshire / Northern MA / Southern ME Vermont / Upstate NY

 

Our new one-of-a-kind Bellows Style Open Air PhotoBooth!

This Bellows-Style Booth looks like the vintage-style camera with an accordion front. It’ll feel like you and your guests are experiencing an old time photo shoot while in this classic photobooth. Fashioned after the old cameras from a century ago, these hand-made booths are intricately put together to help you and your guests blast back in time as if you were at your great-grandparents’ wedding.

Guests look into the computer tablet below at their poses and smile at the camera lens while the beauty dish flashes to capture their bonding moments together. Just several seconds later, a printed photostrip is offered to them so they will always remember their evening together.

This booth boasts Vermont-handcrafted artisanship of cherry, maple and walnut wood, telescoping bellows, solid brass accents and hand-rubbed Danish Oil finish all in a sleek, compact design. Absolutely gorgeous! It smells nice, too!

Here are some photos of the Bellows Booth in action…

Just like with our unique VW PhotoBus and Classic Booth, we are in the business to help you have a unique and memorable wedding or event without skimping on excellence or elegance.

Contact us today to reserve one for your special event.

Best Photo-Strips of 2015 – #6

Posted 5/18/16 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island
Photo booth rental for Hartford CT wedding
Photo booth rental for Block Island, RI birthday party

This crowd knew how to party.  Emphasis here on crowd.  Many people assume we can only fit two or three folks into a Photobooth Planet photo booth.  Oh no.  We have had 8,9, and 10+ cram in there.  Makes for a great photo and an authentic moment of “closeness” for the guests.  Here, too, you can see the upside and downside of having a lot of props.  Funny pic, but you can’t really tell who the people wearing props are.  For a birthday party – sure…go nuts with the props.  But for a wedding, minimal props is the way to go.  Your guests are dressed to the nines already.  And on your ten year anniversary when you pull out the photo guestbook we created for you at your wedding reception, you are going to want to see who was there – and what they actually looked like way back then.  Anyway, enough about props.  This post was intended to illustrate that we can fit a lot more people in our booths than you might at first think.

Best Photo Booth Pics of 2015 – #8

Posted 4/28/16 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island
Photo booth rental for Hartford, CT wedding
Photo booth rental for Hartford, CT wedding

These folks really went for it our classic photo booth rental at a wedding in Hartford CT.  Normally I’m not a huge fan of props (other than a few classy stick props, which we provide), but I like how they used these ones.

Hotel VT’s IceBar and the VW PhotoBus

Posted 1/22/16 in: Martha’s Vineyard Vermont / Upstate NY VW Photobooth Bus

Making a warm appearance at Hotel VT‘s annual Ice Bar, was our VW PhotoBus “Ruby”. In the above video, you’ll see all the love that was experienced with the VW photobooth. Tons of people poured in the heated interior for selfie after selfie, and Whistle Pig Whiskey after Citizen Cider! Ruby was as hot as the flame juggler, and she got lots of shouts of, “We love you, Ruby!”

Ruby is missed in the Green Mountains, but she is making a splash now in the White Mountains with PhotoBooth Planet New Hampshire. Scarlet, the red & white PhotoBus is now making friends with the Vermonters!

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #2

Posted 6/23/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Chloe the VW Photobus.  A photo booth inside a Volkswagon bus!  Come on.
Chloe the VW Photobus. A photo booth inside a Volkswagon bus! Come on.

Chloe the VW PhotoBus brings out the “goofy” best in our wedding guests.  These guys at a Newport, RI wedding had a good laugh when these images popped out.  In fact, that is the most common reaction to photo strips produced in our photo booths (vintage-style or VW photobus): LAUGHTER.  Which is another way of saying that Photobooth Planet is in the business of creating joy.  In terms of enhancing guest experience at a wedding or event – Chloe really has no equal.  Guests are delighted when they see a sea-foam green, 1967 Volkswagen bus rolling up to your event. Then we open the doors and invite guests not only in, but in to create and capture memories that will last a lifetime.

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #3

Posted 6/16/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Bride and bridesmaids coastal Connecticut wedding.  Vintage-style photo booth rental.
Bride and bridesmaids coastal Connecticut wedding. Vintage-style photo booth rental.

These lovely women (the bride is in the middle) created a magical series of black and white photos.  Particularly the last one which captures the warmth and affection of their friendship.  This wedding was held at Barberry Farm in Madison, Connecticut.  The classic photo booth rental at this wedding succeeded in our goal of both creating and capturing memories.  Photos like these are then glued into a photo guest book provided and assembled by Photobooth Planet. Our attendants are trained to encourage guests to write funny/meaningful/clever messages in the book which the bridal couple receive at the end of the night – along with a flash drive with all the digital images.

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #4

Posted 6/09/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Photobooth rental New Haven, CT wedding.  Vintage-style photo booth.
Photobooth rental New Haven, CT wedding. Vintage-style photo booth.

What is there really to say about this photo-strip.  It’s perfect.  These images combine the intimate details of this wedding in New Haven, Connecticut (they served lobster. LOBSTER!) with wedding guests revealing the full range of emotion embodied in their personalities.  Clever, boys.  Very clever.  And remember what I said about not going overboard with the props.  The vintage-style photo booth works because when the curtain closes magic happens. These guys got creative because there weren’t a bunch of boas and tacky hats to distract them.

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #5

Posted 6/02/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Family photo in vintage-style photo booth rental for a Connecticut birthday party.
Family photo in vintage-style photo booth rental for a Connecticut birthday party.

It always makes us happy to see a family bonding in the photo booth.  Besides, having a current, hard copy of a family photo is very rare these days.  Sure, an iphone pic of the fam is nice and all – but try hanging it on the fridge!  The colorful attire in this photo in front of the classic, burgundy curtain really makes the images pop.  One of the main things we believe sets Photobooth Planet’s vintage-style photo booths apart is their ability to create and capture high resolution, flattering images.  It’s one of the first things guests comment on when their photo strips appear – not only how clear they are but how good they look in them.

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #6

Posted 5/26/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Dogs in photo booth.  Photo booth rental Newport RI wedding.
Dogs in photo booth. Photo booth rental Newport RI wedding.

Recently my Photobooth Planet – New England facebook page was over-run with posts about a Pet Adoption agency that used a photo booth to capture funny pictures of their dogs.  They got some great shots.  Here we have a guest at a wedding in Newport RI using our vintage-style photo booth rental to show off his pups.  I think they look a little nervous.  They are clearly looking to someone outside the booth for help.  I liked this photo-strip though because it highlights the creativity of guests when there aren’t a lot of official “photobooth props” provided.  We have a minimal prop philosophy at Photobooth Planet because our goal is to make a super-awesome photo guestbook.  Too many props and you don’t even know in the pictures. And, as shown in the photo-strip above – it opens the door for a level of  guests creativity/ingenuity that makes for some very memorable shots.

Photo-strip Hall of Fame 2014: #7

Posted 5/19/15 in: Connecticut Featured Martha’s Vineyard Massachusetts Rhode Island VW Photobooth Bus
Photobooth Planet, owners - Geoff and Val Gordon in the Photobus at an event in Stonington, CT
Photobooth Planet, owners – Geoff and Val Gordon in the Photobus at an event in Stonington, CT

No, believe it or not, that is not Don and Megan Draper.  It is Photobooth Planet owners, Geoff and Val Gordon.  They were dressed in their grooviest attire for a 70’s themed gala event to benefit the Mystic and Noank Library.   This photo-strip was taken inside Chloe the VW PhotoBus.  We drove it right inside the venue, the Velvet Mill in Stonington Boro, CT and the guests had a ball.  Sure it’s a little self-indulgent to put ourselves into the photo-strip hall of fame, but it a good series of pictures capturing one half of a scintillating conversation that was happening between Geoff and Val and some anonymous guests at the party.  I believe that is what they call in the industry, a candid.