At the moment we are busy virtually every Sunday attending Wedding Shows or as they are sometimes called, Wedding Fayres. To us these are a quite effective way to market our Photo Booth Rental business to potential clients and to get our unique Booth noticed.
Around 55 to 60% of our bookings are from Weddings and yet at the shows we would say that around 90% of the 'Brides' (sorry guys, but in the 'trade' of Wedding Shows, you don't count!) that attend the events haven't ever known about the concept of a Photo Booth as entertainment, or even know about the Photo Booth Hire market. Every week we are getting expressions of bewilderment (and interest) when people see the Booth.
Initially a lot of people ask 'is is like at Boots, or at the Railway Station?' - what we then do is let them have their photo taken in the Booth, maybe after utilising the 'prop box' - what we then hear is laughter and giggles as they see the 'preview' photos on the screen - and then they emerge, get their studio quality photos and we tell them of the benefits of having a Photo Booth at their Wedding :-
The Benefits of having a Photo Booth at a Wedding :-
a) Memorable entertainment for your guests - they have FUN!
b) The guests get to keep a studio quality photo as a memento of your special day.
c) You have provided entertainment in which every one young or old, can participate.
d) Guests take their own photos in the comfort of the Booth at their own pace - no direction - they can be themselves!
e) You get a 'Memory Book' of all the photos with comments (if requested) by your guests.
f) You get a USB Memory Stick of all the photos, so you can print, get printed and extra copies needed from your own source.
g) Password protected on-line Gallery of all the photos. If wanted your guests can buy extra copies of the Photo Booth strips or larger copies of the individual photos.
h) All photos can be put onto our Facebook Wall for tagging.
i) The photos can have a graphic layout that is unique for your event - adding to the 'WOW' factor.
j) Our unique Photo Booth offers the ability for the Bride/Groom to have their own photos graphics on the outside of the Booth - adding to the 'Wow' Factor even more!
k) Other options of Photo Booth Hire include external slide shows of the photos as they are taken, personal graphics on the touchscreen, different coloured backdrops and even GreenScreen technology for the background. All these add to the 'WOW' factor as well.
l) You will have provided a feature at your Wedding, that at the moment. not everyone will have seen in the UK. Your guests will talk about the Photo Booth for many months to come!
We are always stressing the 'entertainment' of the Booth at a Wedding and the added 'WOW' factor and hopefully by reading the above this message comes across.
If you are considering a Photo Booth at your Wedding, then please look at all the details on our Website, and come and see the Booth at a Wedding Show - You'll love it, it has the 'WOW' factor.
We update our Facebook Wall on any Wedding Shows we are about to attend :-
http://www.facebook.com/pages/FlashboxUK-Photo-Booth-Rental/128502030556611
Tuesday, 15 March 2011
Wednesday, 9 March 2011
Our Photo Booth Design
So, here we are, with our first blog about Photo Booths and Photo Booth Rental. What should we write about? Will any body be interested? Well let's get started and find out!
Our Photo Booth is specifically designed for the UK Rental Market, we designed it ourselves, got the booth fabricated (more of that later!) and now operate it.
Where did we get the design? Well we looked at all the Photo Booths available for rent all over the World, this meant many hours on Google! In the UK, at the time we started our design process there were about 25 Photo Booth Hire companies, of these around 6 or 7 were using the same Booth, some were using Booths that can be bought from manufacturers (another 6 or 7) and others had made their own Booths (like we decided to do). In America there are hundreds of Photo Booth Rental Companies with Booths of many shapes/sizes/designs, also there are several companies in Australia that we looked at.
We decided on these design features :- a) The Booth must look contemporary, we wanted it to stand out. b) The Booth must be easily transportable. c) The Booth must be able to fit through doors, in lifts, in Marquees etc. d) It must have the ability to be 'branded' for Corporate Events. e) It must be of a size that 3 to 6 people can fit into the Booth easily. f) It must be a sit down Booth, not an 'open Booth'
Looking at the Booths at use in the UK for Hire we could see that they either were of a 'box' structure or a similar construction to 'exhibition stands' - we took the immediate decision that our Booth must be different to get noticed. We thought that some kind of circular design, with a circle around the seat and a circle around the camera would work. We made some quick drawings and this was the start.
Initially we envisaged the Booth being manufactured out of perspex so we contacted around 25 perspex fabricators around the UK. By this stage we had done more detailed drawings and actually had the 'workings' of the Booth functional, so all we wanted from the fabricators was in effect the shell of the Booth. We then visited around 5 of these fabricators had had many hours of discussion, but always the constraint was the 'ease of transport' - the fabricators could easily make the 'shell' as 1 or 2 units but this would require a box van to transport and a fork lift truck to lift! So we hit a stop.
At this point we even went to look at a manufactured Booth that is being operated by a company out of Bournemouth, you'll see a link to them on our links page (when we get around to putting one up!), that we could have imported from the US, but it did not tick all our boxes.
Then by pure chance, one of the perspex fabricators we had talked to phoned to say that one his clients a metal fabricator (Gary) up in Manchester was interested in our project. Metal fabricator . . . .not what we had thought about at all . .. . . . . .We gave Gary a ring, immediately his enthusiasm for the Photo Booth concept was apparent . . . . .but what about the design? We sent him the drawings and talked through the brief, he didn't promise but indicated that anything was possible.
After about 3weeks we found ourselves up in a very wet South Manchester factory discussing the Booth face to face, we bounced some ideas around about the Photo Booth design, but still the transportation of the Booth was a restraint. Then we left into the rain and a traffic jam on the M60.
Sat in this traffic jam was where the eureka moment arrived in the design - why not incorporate what I had learnt from the perspex people with what Gary had told us about metal fabrication.
The next day we made more drawings and immediately scanned them and emailed them up to Gary - he agreed the design was possible and gave a price for the fabrication. We then finalised all the details and work commenced.
5weeks later (Xmas is inconvenient sometimes!) we returned to Manchester with our internal elements for the Booth, so the Booth could be fitted around these, already the Booth looked exactly like we had imagined. A week later we went to pick up the Booth.
This is the key design element that will amaze any readers who have gotten this far - we went up to Manchester to pick up the Booth in a Volvo car - not a Volvo lorry!! Those wondering why the exclamation marks, please take a look at the photos of the booth again - we had designed this to fit into a Volvo.
Back at Base we did all the 'finishing' touches like the Curtains, posters, blank panels etc, then we were off. All this was keyed up to attend our first Wedding Show. This proved a great success as we got 3 bookings on that day alone.
FlashBoxUK Photo Booth Rental had arrived !!
Our Photo Booth is specifically designed for the UK Rental Market, we designed it ourselves, got the booth fabricated (more of that later!) and now operate it.
Where did we get the design? Well we looked at all the Photo Booths available for rent all over the World, this meant many hours on Google! In the UK, at the time we started our design process there were about 25 Photo Booth Hire companies, of these around 6 or 7 were using the same Booth, some were using Booths that can be bought from manufacturers (another 6 or 7) and others had made their own Booths (like we decided to do). In America there are hundreds of Photo Booth Rental Companies with Booths of many shapes/sizes/designs, also there are several companies in Australia that we looked at.
We decided on these design features :- a) The Booth must look contemporary, we wanted it to stand out. b) The Booth must be easily transportable. c) The Booth must be able to fit through doors, in lifts, in Marquees etc. d) It must have the ability to be 'branded' for Corporate Events. e) It must be of a size that 3 to 6 people can fit into the Booth easily. f) It must be a sit down Booth, not an 'open Booth'
Looking at the Booths at use in the UK for Hire we could see that they either were of a 'box' structure or a similar construction to 'exhibition stands' - we took the immediate decision that our Booth must be different to get noticed. We thought that some kind of circular design, with a circle around the seat and a circle around the camera would work. We made some quick drawings and this was the start.
Initially we envisaged the Booth being manufactured out of perspex so we contacted around 25 perspex fabricators around the UK. By this stage we had done more detailed drawings and actually had the 'workings' of the Booth functional, so all we wanted from the fabricators was in effect the shell of the Booth. We then visited around 5 of these fabricators had had many hours of discussion, but always the constraint was the 'ease of transport' - the fabricators could easily make the 'shell' as 1 or 2 units but this would require a box van to transport and a fork lift truck to lift! So we hit a stop.
At this point we even went to look at a manufactured Booth that is being operated by a company out of Bournemouth, you'll see a link to them on our links page (when we get around to putting one up!), that we could have imported from the US, but it did not tick all our boxes.
Then by pure chance, one of the perspex fabricators we had talked to phoned to say that one his clients a metal fabricator (Gary) up in Manchester was interested in our project. Metal fabricator . . . .not what we had thought about at all . .. . . . . .We gave Gary a ring, immediately his enthusiasm for the Photo Booth concept was apparent . . . . .but what about the design? We sent him the drawings and talked through the brief, he didn't promise but indicated that anything was possible.
After about 3weeks we found ourselves up in a very wet South Manchester factory discussing the Booth face to face, we bounced some ideas around about the Photo Booth design, but still the transportation of the Booth was a restraint. Then we left into the rain and a traffic jam on the M60.
Sat in this traffic jam was where the eureka moment arrived in the design - why not incorporate what I had learnt from the perspex people with what Gary had told us about metal fabrication.
The next day we made more drawings and immediately scanned them and emailed them up to Gary - he agreed the design was possible and gave a price for the fabrication. We then finalised all the details and work commenced.
5weeks later (Xmas is inconvenient sometimes!) we returned to Manchester with our internal elements for the Booth, so the Booth could be fitted around these, already the Booth looked exactly like we had imagined. A week later we went to pick up the Booth.
This is the key design element that will amaze any readers who have gotten this far - we went up to Manchester to pick up the Booth in a Volvo car - not a Volvo lorry!! Those wondering why the exclamation marks, please take a look at the photos of the booth again - we had designed this to fit into a Volvo.
Back at Base we did all the 'finishing' touches like the Curtains, posters, blank panels etc, then we were off. All this was keyed up to attend our first Wedding Show. This proved a great success as we got 3 bookings on that day alone.
FlashBoxUK Photo Booth Rental had arrived !!
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