Photo Booth Rental NJ – Maritime Parc at Liberty State Park
Posted 4/04/15 in: New Jersey New York
Spring is finally here and we kicked off our wedding season with a beautiful wedding at Maritime Parc in Liberty State Park. The view was absolutely beautiful – clear blue skies and a phenomenal view of Lower Manhattan from right over the Hudson River. Maritime Parc (www.maritimeparc.com) is a beautiful wedding venue with great light and fabulous food! Guests loved our vintage photo booth on this beautiful Sunday afternoon wedding. One of our favorite moments of the evening – a newborn baby and his parents jumping into our vintage photo booth with the baby smiling for each shot…it was timed so perfectly! Of course, the bride and groom had a blast, along with their many guests – dancing, socializing, and partying! Another one of our favorite moments: a middle-aged business man attending as a guest, with a quite serious disposition, reluctantly sat in our vintage photo booth for a picture with his son. After seeing the quality of the photo and experiencing the classic experience of the photo booth again, something happened to him. He ended up circling back to our vintage photo booth twenty times, dragging in other reluctant guests to capture photos with him. He ended up asking for my card, as he became a huge fan of the classic photo booth experience once again! It was a great way to kick-off the spring season with our classic photo booth in the beautiful and historic, Liberty State Park!
Photo Booth Rental NYC – Tappan Hill Mansion
Posted 3/30/15 in: New Jersey New York
A beautiful venue with historic ties to one of our nation’s most intriguing and talented writers, Tappan Hill Mansion is located on the former estate of Samuel Clemens, also known as Mark Twain. This past weekend, we had a wonderful time celebrating another amazing couple with our vintage photo booth set-up in the lovely ballroom. Amidst the great music (Hank Lane Productions) and amazing food (Abigail Kirsh Catering), one of the best parts of the evening was bumping into a former client. Two years ago, I was hired for this former client’s wedding at another Abigail Kirsh catering venue, The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers in New York, New York. As the former clients came out of our vintage photo booth, they recognized me and I found out that they recommended me as a vendor to the evenings bride and groom! It was a wonderful coincidence to see them now as guests for their friends wedding. As the famous author once wrote, “Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.” Indeed, it was another great wedding, great couple, great guests, great food, and a great party with our vintage photo booth!
Photo Booth Rental NJ – Promoting Education at The Rockleigh Country Club
Posted 3/17/15 in: New Jersey New York
At a recent event at The Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey, I had the opportunity to meet some of the amazing honored guests from The Dwight-Englewood School at their annual “Reach for the Stars” Auction Fundraiser. Guests had the opportunity to jump into and out of our vintage photo booth over the course of the evening, while I had a chance to learn more about the school and the wonderful faculty! I really enjoyed meeting Carole DeVito, an honored guest and retiring History teacher, along with her family and friends as they posed for photos in our vintage photo booth. The event was filled with great music and excellent food compliments of The Rockleigh Country Club and their wonderful hospitality. I also enjoyed meeting the various staff and the wonderful people working behind the scenes to help promote education at the Dwight-Englewood School. I was glad to see them enjoying themselves in our vintage photo booth. One couple remarked that they had not been in a classic photo booth since the 1950s! They ended up taking several black and white photo strips with them home, a wonderful reminder that the classic photo booth has maintained its original charm after all these years!
Photo Booth Rental NJ – Supporting Bergen County at the Westmount Country Club
Posted 2/21/15 in: New Jersey New York
Recently had the opportunity to partner with the United Way in Bergen County at their Very Special Night Fashion Show on February 19th to support their initiative to provide homes to special needs individuals throughout Northern Jersey. The night featured a simulated Oscars Ceremony with a fashion show for several of the special needs individuals connected with the United Way in Bergen County. Held at the Westmount Country Club, guests jumped in and out of our vintage photo booth throughout the evening. I had the privilege of chatting with some of the honored guests while attending our vintage photo booth. Enjoyed watching each of these honored guests going on stage and grabbing an Oscar (or a statue that looked very similar to it!). Also, had fun watching these guests taking photos together in our vintage photo booth with their Oscar awards. It was a special evening with our photo booth!
To learn more about opportunities to partner with the Bergen United Way, check out: www.bergenunitedway.org.
Photo Booth Rental NYC – Connecting with Guests
Posted 2/12/15 in: New Jersey New York
One of the things I enjoy most about setting up our vintage photo booth is the opportunity to connect and socialize with various guests at an event. At a recent event in New York, New York, I started chatting with a guest who had flown up from Mexico to attend his cousins Quinceañera, the celebration of a girl’s fifteenth birthday. When he first entered our vintage photo booth, he had no idea how to operate the machine and ended up just sitting in the photo booth for about five minutes. Although we had a slight language barrier, I eventually was able to communicate to him the simple operation of the photo booth, and he took it from there! He ended up grabbing all his family members, aunts, uncles, grand parents, cousins, and taking individual photos throughout the evening. He even convinced me to jump in with him!
It is certainly fun to meet with different people at each of the events we do in the New York and New Jersey area. I try to encourage even the least photogenic people to jump in our vintage photo booth and give it a try at least once. It’s even more enjoyable to watch people who are initially reluctant (or confused, like my friend pictured above), to warm up to the photo booth concept and embrace the fun they could have with it. At the end of the night, I caught him showing off this photo to his family members. Always satisfying to hear guests enjoying our vintage photo booth!
Photo Booth Rental NYC – Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York, NY
Posted 1/30/15 in: New Jersey New York
At a recent event at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Battery Park, New York, NY, a guest asked me, “how in the world did you get the photo booth up to the 14th floor?” One of the benefits of our vintage photo booth is its ability to navigate through the maze of New York City hotels. From the loading dock, through the back room hallways, tiny freight elevators, etc…, our vintage photo booth has made it’s way into some of the nicest New York City venues. As I explained the unique way our classic photo booth folds up and works it’s way through these New York City back room hallways, a small crowd started gathering as guests grew more and more curious about the photo booth design. Needless to say, they appreciated the design of our vintage photo booth even more after my explanation and they went ahead and took several more photos throughout the evening (see below). We tried to think through all the details to offer a well-designed, elegant, yet fun vintage photo booth for your event.
Photo Booth Rental NJ – Rockleigh Country Club, Rockleigh, NJ
Posted 1/26/15 in: New Jersey New York
Photo Booth Rental NJ – visiting the Rockleigh Country Club in Rockleigh, New Jersey. At a recent event at the Rockleigh Country Club in New Jersey, I connected with guests in our vintage photo booth that asked whether our photo booth had immediate social media capability. This is a feature we’ve long considered as we wish to stay on the forefront of all new technology. At the same time, we want to retain the vintage photo booth experience and pass that experience on to a new generation. With the explosion of digital media technology, it’s true that various different features can be added to the vintage photo booth experience – immediate social media upload, photo editing, green screen, etc… At the same time, after testing some of these options myself, I realized it also complicates the vintage photo booth experience as well. I realize there’s a spectrum of tech savvy people, and often times, it has nothing to do with age (I recently observed a grandfather at a recent Sweet Sixteen event taking selfies with his grand children on the dance floor). Yet, for our purposes, we wanted to keep things sweet and simple with our vintage photo booth. High-quality print outs available in 60 seconds. Our aim is to keep the event classy, elegant, yet simple and memorable. At the end of the evening, the client gets the original digital copies of the photos and photos strips taken during the event and can then upload files to social media.
Photo Booth Rental NYC – Ritz Carlton Battery Park, New York, NY
Posted 1/19/15 in: New Jersey New York
Photo Booth Rental NYC at the Ritz Carlton Battery Park, New York, NY. At our most recent event at the Ritz Carlton Battery Park, New York, NY, one of the guests was intrigued by our vintage photo booth design and the high quality of our photo strips. He was so interested, he stayed until the very end of the event to watch me as I packed up our vintage photo booth, covered it up, and wheeled it out of the Ritz Carlton. As I was leaving, he gave me a nod of approval and a great big smile, thanking me for adding a wonderful dimension to the event. One thing he especially appreciated was the compact design of our vintage photo booth and its ability to work its way through some of the trickiest New York City hotel passageways and loading zones. Since space is such an issue in many New York City venues, it is definitely something to consider as you explore your options for renting a photo booth in New York City. Fortunately, the staff at the Ritz Carlton Battery Park were absolutely amazing and the set-up of our classic photo booth was quite simple. We had a lovely time at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Battery Park and hope we can connect again with this beautiful venue again!
Photo Booth Rental NYC – The Lighthouse, Chelsea Piers, New York, NY
Posted 1/14/15 in: New Jersey New York
Photo Booth Rental NYC: one of our favorite events last year at The Lighthouse in Chelsea Piers in New York, NY. This amazingly talented couple reached out to us looking for a vintage photo booth for their wedding. With backgrounds in design and animation, these two had a keen eye for what they were looking for in a vintage photo booth. Our vintage photo booth ended up being a perfect fit and we had a wonderful time at the event. As you consider a photo booth rental NYC, we offer two tips:
1) Decide between modern photo booth options or the more classic, vintage photo booth. With the use of technology, there are some pretty amazing modern photo booth options out there – from social media capability, green screen background, video booths, etc…I’ve connected with other photo booth companies and DJ’s to learn and see how new technology is changing the way we think of photo booths. Then, there’s the classic photo booth with a simple button, three or four timed photos, and immediate prints housed in an actual hard-sided booth. This is the more vintage, traditional photo booth experience. The first step after you decide to rent a photo booth for your wedding is to discus these two options: modern photo booths or vintage photo booth.
2) Aesthetics of the venue. Every venue communicates a certain theme. I’ve spoken to many different wedding coordinators and that is one of their first questions for the bride and groom: what theme would you like to communicate to your guests? The photo booth is one of many different themes at the event, but we are of the mindset that the photo booth should be simple, elegant, yet fun. Also, if space is an issue, a photo booth rental that is compact.
Researching a photo booth rental NYC: we suggest starting out asking these two questions: what type of photo booth do we want for our event? & what is the aesthetic look of the venue? We find as you narrow these two questions down, finding the right photo booth rental company is much easier. Happy hunting!
Photo Booth NYC – Plaza Hotel, New York, NY
Posted 1/10/15 in: New Jersey New York
Photo Booth NYC – guests at a recent wedding posing in our vintage photo booth at the historic Plaza Hotel in New York, NY. Aside from its central location and beautiful event space, the Plaza Hotel is uniquely tied to the history of New York City. Opened in 1907, the Plaza originally served as a residence for wealthy New Yorkers – single rooms started at $2.50 per night! Designated a New York City Landmark in 1969, The Plaza is the only New York City hotel to be designated a National Historic Landmark. Walking through the hotel, one will find evidence of countless historic figures who once stayed as guests in this beautiful NYC hotel. A worthwhile visit for sure!
To learn more about the history, see: http://www.theplazany.com/history/
The Plaza also provided an ideal location for our iconic, vintage photo booth for a lovely wedding in NYC. Interested in planning an event in NYC? Check out our vintage photo booth NYC. We aim to retain the historic, vintage photo booth style while also adding a touch of fun to your event. With our photo booth, we aim for an elegant, classy, vintage photo booth experience with a ton of fun. Looking for a photo booth NYC – check out our vintage photo booth.
