Wedding Guests at a Recent Event in NYC
Posted 7/17/15 in: New Jersey New York
A cute couple in our vintage photo booth at a recent wedding at The Lighthouse in Chelsea Piers in New York City. This beautiful venue has a great view of the Hudson and wonderful food catered by Abigail Kirsch Catering. Throughout the evening, this couple visited our vintage photo booth several times as they definitely enjoyed the classic photo booth experience of stepping into a photo booth, closing the curtain, and posing for three photos. It’s always fun to observe wedding guests enjoying themselves in our vintage photo booth!
Classic Wedding and Our Traditional Photo Booth
Posted 7/14/15 in: New Jersey New York
At a recent wedding at Maritime Parc in Liberty State Park, New Jersey, guests absolutely loved hanging around our classic, traditional photo booth all evening! With a beautiful view of downtown Manhattan on a gorgeous June evening, wedding guests mingled amongst each other with a fantastic Jazz Band playing in the background, and outstanding food. Guests loved the simple, vintage-style photo booth experience, and together, we completed a beautiful photo guest book for the bride and groom! Throughout the evening, the bride continued to flip through the photo guest book, checking out all her friends and family who stopped to pose in our classic photo booth! It is always one of my goals to get as many friends and family members into the photo booth on behalf of the bride and groom. For this particular wedding, the friends and family had such a good time, word spread, and pretty soon, guests lined-up for the chance! A wonderful wedding with a lovely couple and beautiful guests!
Fort Lee Arts Festival and a Vintage Photo Booth
Posted 7/12/15 in: New Jersey New York
On New Year’s Eve, I met Tom from the Fort Lee Arts and Film Commission based in Fort Lee, New Jersey. As a guest at a wedding, he jumped into our vintage photo booth and loved it! After the event, he asked for my card and invited me to participate at the Fort Lee Annual Arts and Film Commission. Most people these days associate Fort Lee with the Bridge Gate scandal, yet many people do not know that Fort Lee represented Hollywood, before Hollywood even existed! Lemoine Avenue in Fort Lee housed all the major film studios before they migrated out west. Many of the earliest motion picture films were produced and filmed in Fort Lee, just a stones throw away from Manhattan. Check out this cool website for the history of the motion picture industry in North Jersey – http://www.fortleefilm.org/.
We set-up our vintage photo booth as partners with the Fort Lee Arts and Film Commission, offering free photo booth pictures for families in the Fort Lee community. It was an absolute hit! People jumped in and out of our vintage photo booth all day, taking black and white photos, and re-experiencing the vintage photo booth experience! The Arts Festival also included some talented emerging bands, live music, great food, and wonderful community! Enjoyed being part of this community event in North Jersey, and so glad to see so many people embracing the vintage photo booth experience!
Beautiful Vintage Style Wedding on Long Island
Posted 7/08/15 in: New Jersey New York
We recently set-up our vintage photo booth at a beautiful wedding at the Three Village Inn out in Stony Brook, Long Island. It was a lovely, vintage style wedding, with great food and a beautiful view along the water. I particularly enjoyed the rustic, vintage look of the Three Village Inn, a perfect venue for our vintage style photo booth. The bride and groom loved posing in the photo booth, especially with his cheese head prop, straight from Wisconsin! Guests loved filling up the guest book with hilarious photo strips from our vintage style photo booth!
Our Vintage Photo Booth at a High School Prom
Posted 5/25/15 in: New Jersey New York
Despite all the new gimmicks and features of modern photo booths catering to the current generation of social-media savvy, smart-phone toting high schoolers, it was impressive to see how many of them enjoyed our vintage photo booth at a recent Senior High School prom. This line stretched 25 people deep for most of the night as students waited to take their photos in our vintage photo booth at the Glastonbury Senior Prom at the Hartford Marriott Hotel located in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. While chatting with the students, many of them have sat in various-types of photo booths for Sweet 16s, weddings, Bar-Mitvah, etc…but the response to our vintage photo booth was overwhelmingly positive. One particular couple (located on the far right in the above photo) posed twelve times in our classic photo booth over the course of the evening. That means, they were spending a significant portion of their night waiting on line, since the line for our classic photo booth stretched 25 people deep for most of the evening. After their eighth time through, I asked them for feedback on our classic photo booth in comparison to others. “We love the quality of the photo and the simple design.” Happy to hear the next generation still appreciates the classic photo booth experience!
A Classic Wedding Photo Booth for Your Special Day
Posted 5/13/15 in: New Jersey New York
Last year at the Plaza Hotel in New York, NY, we visited the historic Plaza Hotel for a classic New York City Wedding. This beautiful couple, along with their fun (and inebriated friends) had a wonderful time celebrating on a beautiful Fall afternoon right near Central Park. It really felt like a storybook wedding, or at least something you would see in a movie or television show. Beautiful high-powered Manhattan couple coming together for a classic wedding. It also made me realize that our classic photo booth, while fun and entertaining, also fit the atmosphere of the elegant Plaza Hotel. We designed our classic photo booth with this particular type of wedding in mind – classy, elegant, yet fun! We recognize there are other photo booth options out there, and certainly, we are not the only vintage photo booth out there in the Metropolitan New York area. However, what makes us distinct is our attention to detail with our photo booth in both aesthetics as well as photo quality. For such a special occasion, why settle for a makeshift photo booth that often functions as an add-on for wedding photographers or DJ’s? Our focus is on capturing the classic photo booth experience with an upgrade in design and photo quality. Check out our blog to see other stories of our classic photo booth in action throughout the Metro New York area!
Hiring a Wedding Photo Booth
Posted 5/11/15 in: New Jersey New York
Top three reasons to hire a wedding photo booth for your upcoming wedding:
1) Fun, fun, fun…in addition to the great music and dancing, a wedding photo booth is a unique way to add another dimension of fun to your event. Your guests will love posing for photos in our vintage photo booth and signing your guest book with a copy of their printed out photo strips. At a recent wedding in New York City, one of the guests remarked after signing the guest book, “What a perfect gift for the newlyweds!”
2) Wedding favor…we’re not just about having fun, but we also recognize the importance of operating within a budget. We understand the challenges of coordinating a beautiful and personal event within an operating budget. Rather than devoting additional funds to a wedding favor, the photo strips from our classic photo booth are a perfect take-home for your guests.
3) A blast from the past…there’s a reason the photo booth was such a hit when it initially arrived on the scene in the mid-20th century: the automated machine, the spontaneity of the photos, and the privacy of entering a photo booth to capture a special moment. Not to mention, in this day an age, when most photos exist on a phone in a cloud somewhere, having a physical photo strip print out in 30 seconds is a real novelty again.
We love the vintage photo booth as a unique way to celebrate your special event!
Celebrating a Sweet 16 with a Vintage Photo Booth
Posted 5/09/15 in: New Jersey New York
Last weekend, we had the opportunity to celebrate a lovely Sweet 16 with a wonderfully mature and talented young woman. After listening to her speech thanking her family members and close friends, it made me really appreciate this rite of passage from girl to young adult. Held at the Stone House at Stirling Ridge in Warren, NJ (http://stonehouseatstirlingridge.com), a beautiful garden is located on the premise so the ingredients are literally brought from farm-to-table! Guests young and old loved taking photos in our vintage photo booth and filling out the guest book. I really enjoyed watching the “uncles,” four brothers, jump into our classic photo booth and try to take a series of fun photos for their niece. Initially hesitant to go into the photo booth, after several tries, this group ended up taking dozens of photos together. It was pleasant to see our photo booth adding another dimension of fun to this celebration!
One of my favorite Wedding Moments in the Hudson Valley
Posted 4/30/15 in: New Jersey New York
This photo captures one of my favorite moments at an outdoor wedding at Clermont State Park up in the beautiful Hudson Valley. Clermont State Historic Site was the Hudson River seat of New York’s politically and socially prominent Livingston Family (read more here http://nysparks.com/historic-sites/16/details.aspx). The reason I love this photo: five brothers of the bride and the mother of the bride joining together to sing the Bob Dylan song, “Hey Mama”, at the wedding reception. The band was great and the wedding was such a warm, loving affair. Even though I was operating the photo booth, I still had time to play soccer with a few kids, chat with some of the guests, and eat a delicious barbeque meal! The whole wedding felt like family, and it was such a memorable day! Guests were in and out of the photo booth all night, and I honestly really enjoyed being there. Not to mention, the beautiful view of the Hudson River. It was a picture perfect day and one of the many reasons I enjoy setting up our photo booth!
Corporate Parties…the perfect place for a Photo Booth!
Posted 4/27/15 in: New Jersey New York
On a recent Thursday night in NYC, friends at The Shade Store recently invited us to celebrate the opening of their flagship store located at 225 East 59th Street in the heart of midtown Manhattan. This showroom is stunning and a beautiful testament to the design and style of this company (www.theshadestore.com). At the party, we had a wonderful time connecting with guests hanging around our vintage photo booth. We especially liked watching kids and their parents jumping into our photo booth together – dressing up in costume and posing for pictures with Mom and Dad. It was a great night overall and a really fun place to set-up our classic photo booth in NYC!
