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Backdrop love – making it your own

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Posted by , in Corporate, Events, Photo Booth, School Balls

We love the fact that our photo booths have a curtain that you can hide behind and get all crazy… but the fun doesn’t have to stop there!

For the more adventurous posers out there the curtain can be flung back to reveal all – posing with an audience can be just as fun! While a blank wall can be nice, a bit of DIY can take you booth experience up a notch – if you can fancy up the wall behind you or even find a fun and interesting wall you can give your guests the option to stay behind the curtain or have photos with a unique back drop or both!  – You can even add something to the existing curtain to make it your own – like Sam did for his Indian themed 50th, goodbye black curtain and hello blue sari.

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On one of our all time faves…. Rosie sure knows how to make a stunning backdrop

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This idea really got us thinking so off we went to search for some fun and different ideas that could inspire a curtain alternative …. remember you can keep the curtain on while still having a fabulous background on standby … we love what we found….have a look at these beauties and let your imagination go, we would love to see what you come up with!

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See you at the Expo

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Posted by , in Tips, Weddings, Wellington

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There is no substitute for trying something out in person and talking to someone live to help you make your decisions and wedding expos are a great way to do that. Luckily for Wellingtonians we will be in attendance at the Capital City Wedding Expo on Sunday 23 August.

We’ll have one of our awesome booths there, a box of props to play with and plenty of samples to take a look at on the day. Greg, our Regional Manager, will be there to field all questions and he’ll also have the diary there to check whether we can help you out on your special day. Greg has lots of cool ideas about things you can do with your booth as well so you can really get the most bang for your buck out of the booth. Speaking of bang for your buck we often run a special deal for people who visit us on the day as well so come along and sign up to be part of that.

We’ve also had people come, take a photo in the booth and use that strip to announce their engagement too so there’s added incentive to come along and check us out. See you there!

 


Great marketing and exposure!

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Posted by , in Corporate, Events, Marketing, Photo Booth

Hi there,

Here at Photo Booth Fun we think our product is an excellent way for businesses and charities to gain exposure and to get themselves talked about in a positive light. Many corporate and charitable organisations greatly benefit from the inclusion of one of our booths and operators at any function or event that they may be involved with.

With our mandate to create lasting memories and our excellent designers ability to add your branding and relevant information to one of our custom photo strips, we are able to increase the chances of your organisation being talked about when people display or show off their unique photo strips as they reminisce about that fantastic time they had at your company’s event.

Here are a few examples to demonstrate what we are talking about.

We would love to have the opportunity to collaborate with your company or charitable organisation and help you to potentially gain valuable exposure and make your mark  on guests or clients in a meaningful and fun way! We are confident we can excel in contributing to making any event a resounding success!


Image Quality Matters

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Welcome to the end of June folks!

It has been a month of chilly weather here in the Bay of Plenty, in fact all over the country it has been freezing! I hope you’ve all kept safe, dry and warm over the last month, it’s sad to say but I think it’s only going to get colder!

With the cold weather there comes comfort in warming up with friends and family and reminiscing over fond memories. Memories are great, but can fade, so sometimes having a picture to renew those old feelings can be a valuable addition to any story or evening around the fireplace. Unfortunately some photos don’t stand the test of time, however some do. Like the high quality colour, or black and white prints from our Photo Booths.

We know that our equipment is top notch, and delivers exceptional results, consistently, that stand the test of time. Which given that you’re paying your hard earned money for our services, transforms the experience from a mere novelty, to a worthwhile investment in memories that can be drawn upon time and time again to provide cheer when the weather or other factors conspire to make the outlook gloomy.

We also have some pretty cool guys and girls working for us who don’t mind you and your guests cutting loose and having a great time. It’s of huge importance to us that every part of the Photo Booth Fun experience lives up to its name!

Just check out these images from our most recent event here in the Bay of Plenty to gain an insight into the sort of emotion that we can help you to take home in your pocket or bag, or custom guestbook, or frame, or custom memory stick, or custom envelope, or even in a private online gallery. We like to give you more than a couple of options!

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Some other things to do with a booth

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Posted by , in Events, Photo Booth, Tips, Wellington

Good brand exposure right there!

Good brand exposure right there!

 

When people think about photo booths they normally see them at weddings, school balls or maybe the odd birthday or Christmas party but there are so many other times that a photo booth can be a really cool thing to have around. This blog is full of lots of occasions when our box has been to some out of the box events and put to some out of the box uses but here are a couple of suggestions.

Getting your brand out there

The life span of the humble photo strip can be much longer than you expect. We have lots of stories from people who meet us at events and expos who tell us that they have photos from our booths on their fridge or at the work space or on the noticeboard months or years after the event. We’ve even had the same folks come up to us several years in a row to update their “family photo”. So strips hang around for quite a while. We can customise those strips to carry your brand and your message so that its not just that the photos are reminders of a good time but also of your business.

Raising Awareness

There doesn’t just have to be a commercial imperative here either. We’ve helped spread health messages, encouraged tertiary education and promoted recycling amongst other things. Having a photo booth at events to raise awareness also helps give the event a fun and memorable twist that can help keep people around for a bit longer.

Raising funds

A booth at an event can also raise funds for your cause. We are happy to assist with charging a small fee to use the booth and because you get a USB stick with all the images from the booth on it after we’re done some canny groups have also sold the larger digital images to people after the event to raise some more much needed cash.

So whatever you want your event to achieve we can help that happen with our booths. Just get on the phone and talk to you local team to see how we can help out.


Stunning wedding locations in the Waikato

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Posted by , in Events, Hamilton, Photo Booth, Regions

WOW!  What a busy wedding season we’re having in the Waikato, we’ve had fun snapping brides, grooms and their guests all over the Waikato and here’s some of the totally awesome, photo booth friendly wedding venues we’ve appeared at so far…

 

Woodlands Historic Homestead – Gordonton, Hamilton

 

Sarnia Park Botique Lodge – Cambridge

 

The Red Barn – Hinuera

 

The Green Dragon Inn – The Shire, Middle Earth, Matamata

 

The Boatshed – Lake Karapiro

 

Rosenvale – Te Awamutu

 


How many people can you fit in that thing?

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Posted by , in Photo Booth, Tips, Wellington

Photobooth Fun - making people movers look simultaneously awkward and gangster since ages ago

Photobooth Fun – making people movers look simultaneously awkward and gangster since ages ago

One of the questions we often get asked is “How many people can you fit in this thing?” Its normally as a group of 4 people try to go into the booth.

Well, 4 is no problem. Neither is 6. And, I think the record is 19 people within the curtained confines of the booth.

There's something like 17 people in here. If you know what to look for

There’s something like 17 people in here. If you know what to look for

Its all a matter of human Tetris, organising people by size and making sure everyone can see the camera. But it can be done.

Take the curtain off and anything is possible! You’ll notice above there’s a people mover in the background – so we can fit all sorts of things in the photo booth frame. Without the curtain it depends on how good the lighting is and how you arrange yourself to get the most people in focus. You can even get your own custom back-drops made or use the ones provided so conveniently by Mother Nature.

So there are all sorts of combinations and configurations that you might want to think about, or talk to us about when you book a booth. However you look at it – the only limit to the number of people in the booth is your ingenuity and imagination!


We cover the bay, and go the extra mile or two!

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The Bay of Plenty photo booth ends up in some fairly out of the way spots, and we’re often asked ‘how far do you go?’ Well that’s an excellent question!

With our Tauranga base we offer FREE delivery within 50kms of the Tauranga CBD, and that covers all of the local conference facilities and wedding venues, and includes Katikati to the North, Pyes Pa, Papamoa and Te Puke to the South.

But we go much further, in fact as long as you’ve got vehicle access and power we cover the whole of the Bay of Plenty region – including Rotorua, Kawerau, Whakatane and Opotiki.

If you’re thinking even further afield, then don’t worry we’ve our network of photo booth regions all over New Zealand – with booths in Auckland, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Napier, Wellington and Christchurch each region offers free delivery within 50kms of the CBD, and that’s a massive chunk of New Zealand covered!


Magical wedding venues in the bay

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Posted by , in Events, Photo Booth, Regions, Tauranga

The BOP team are full swing into wedding season now, and recently we’ve been to some amazing venues, heres a selection of totally awesome, photo booth friendly wedding venues we’ve appeared at in the past few weeks…

Mills Reef Aged Wine Cellar – Bethlehem, Tauranga

 

Mills Reef Barrell Room – Bethlehem Tauranga

Ataahua  – Pyes Pa, Tauranga

 

Fountain Gardens – Te Puna, Tauranga

 

Oreti Village Resort – Pukawa Bay, Taupo

 

Bella Vista Lodge – Ohauiti, Tauranga


Expo Time!

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Posted by , in Marketing, Packages, Photo Booth, Tips

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As the Wellington team prepares for our first Wedding Expo of the year, the North City Wedding Expo, its a good time to quickly talk about Expos.

Just recently I’ve started taking the booth to the weddings of folk who I’ve met at the various Wedding Expos that we attend in the Wellington region and its always really nice to finish something that may have begun two years ago! The thing with so many weddings is that details are often sorted out well in advance and, having been in the job for 18 months now, I haven’t had this opportunity often.

Expos can seem like a bit of a daunting prospect, or unnecessary as you think you’ve got it all “locked down” but it doesn’t hurt to go to a couple before the big day. Mainly because companies, like Photobooth Fun, do deals for these Expos and there’s always the chance of picking up more bang for your wedding buck – and there’s nothing wrong about that.

And its always a great chance to road test some of your products. We love having people in our booths at expos because its easy to see how fast and fun the process is, as well as the quality.

So a big congrats to all the brides and grooms who we met at an expo and ended up joining on their big day. Here’s hoping I meet some more later on this month!