We've been blogged AGAIN!

Laurie Schneider of Laurie Schneider Photography just posted an incredible photo of our photo booth in action! We are obviously proud parents.

Laurie shot the wedding photos and we provided the photo booth for Steph & Mike's recent wedding reception held at the Wabasha Street Caves.

See the booth in action and checkout Laurie's blog here

and the winner is...The Traveling Photo Booth!

Wedding Industry ICON Award Recipients Announced!


MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. November 19, 2008 - On Sunday, November 16, 2008, at a black tie gala, Twin City Bridal Association (TCBA), was proud to announce the winners of the ICON Award for excellence in the local wedding industry.
ICON AWARD WINNERS

The ICON Award was presented to the following ten local wedding experts for their outstanding performance in their respected fields of expertise.

Excellence in Bridal Salon Experience: Angelique's Bridal Salon, Blaine, MN

Excellence in Use of Entertainment: The Traveling Photo Booth, St. Louis Park, MN

Excellence in Graphic Design: A Milestone Paper Co., Burnsville, MN

Excellence in Wedding Photography: Jan Kentala Photography, Burnsville, MN

Excellence in Cake Design: Celebration Generation Cakes, Plymouth, MN

Excellence in Reception Floral Design: Pazzobello Flowers, Minneapolis, MN

Excellence in Reception Décor: Richfield Flowers and Events, Richfield, MN
and Instant Request, Bloomington, MN

Wedding of the Year: b. inspired weddings and events, St. Louis Park, MN
and Liz Banfield Photography, Minneapolis, MN

Truly the pinnacle of success, the ICON Awards is regarded as the highest honor for merit of excellence in the Twin Cities wedding industry. The winners are recognized for their contribution to the industry and selected based on anonymous entries judged by a prestigious panel of national experts. It's the "Who's Who" of the industry recognized for their cutting-edge creative vision and their endless pursuit of perfection.

Produced by Twin City Bridal Association, the ICON Awards were designed by The Wedding Guys®, Matthew Trettel and Bruce Vassar, with the highest priority to ensure the anonymity and fairness of the ICON Awards judging process. The field of national judges included: Randy Fenoli, Fashion Director, Kleinfelds - New York; Kile Ozier, International Special Event Creative Director; Sylvia Weinstock, President, Sylvia Weinstock Cakes; David Merrill, President, An Original Occasion and Art Scangas, Art Director and Co-Owner of Inside Weddings.

Click to download a pdf about the ICON Award Event

About Twin City Bridal Association
TCBA is an association of wedding-related businesses whose members are dedicated to maintaining and enhancing professional services to brides and grooms. TCBA's members are the best of the best within the Twin Cities wedding industry. TCBA is comprised of businesses and organizations committed to fair and ethical business practices.

We're nominated for an Icon Award!

We just got an email from the Wedding Guys letting us know we're a nominee for an Icon Award in the category of "Excellence in Use of Entertainment."

Only 3 are nominated in each category and we're pretty excited to be in the top 3!!!

The Twin City Bridal ICON Awards recognize outstanding achievement through innovative
work in the local wedding industry. Judged in 15 categories, the ICON Awards celebrate
success and increases awareness of excellence for wedding professionals based on a
credible, merit-based award entry process.

Winners will be announced at the Twin City Bridal ICON Awards Gala on November 16, 2008 at the Minneapolis Convention Center.

We'll keep you posted!

The Traveling Photo Booth Halloween Party

A message from GM Jeff...

Spooky Greetings from The Traveling Photo Booth (still in recovery)!

We'd like to send a big thank you to everybody who made it to our Halloween Extravaganza. I hope you had as much fun as we did. We had some big winners last night for our contest and drawing. A mystery guest won a liter of Kettle One Vodka. Allison Munsell with AARCEE won a bottle of wine in our RSVP drawing. A very scary skeleton (some people think it was Jason McLean with the Varsity Theater) took first in our "Best Costume" contest and he took home a $100 gift card for Lucias Restaurant and Wine Bar. Town and Country Club won our venue raffle for a free photo booth rental!

We have a ton of fabulous photo strips you don't want to miss! Check them out here.

We had delicious food and delightful drinks thanks to Kraemers Catering (www.kraemerscatering.com) and a place to rest our feet (and more!) provided by Midway Party Rental (www.midwaypartyrental.com) The amazing mix of tricky tunes was spun out by our very own "DJ Steely," one of our rock-star photo booth attendants. A big thank you to neighbors Muddy Paws Cheesecake (www.muddypawscheesecake.com) for delectable pumpkin and chocolate treats, to BMS rentals (www.bmsrentals.com) for making it possible to watch a huge version of "It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown" on the wall, and to Late Bloomer Flowers for the black roses!I hope you had a chance to enjoy the hilarious and magical entertainment of David Harris (www.davidharrislive.com) and Sean Phillips (www.sean-phillips.net). They had me scratching my head in amazement and rolling on the floor laughing all at the same time.

It was a fantastic night and we're still trying to put the office back together. Thanks for coming in great costumes and making it a party to remember.Happy Halloween!

Jeff, Matt & Jacob

The Traveling Photo Booth Expands to Madison, WI

It's time to uncork the champagne and cue the confetti throwers as The Traveling Photo Booth has has officially opened shop in Madison, WI!!!!!

The Madison franchise is owned & operated by the incredible Casey Haselwander. To contact The Traveling Photo Booth of Madison, Wisconsin, click here.

We bit the bullet... Facebook!

Everyone wants to know why The Traveling Photo Booth took so long to get with the program. Was it ignorance? Lethargy? Maybe we were too busy coming up with ridiculous poses for the photo booth. The truth is that no one knows why TTPB has finally entered the world of Facebook. The important thing is that we're there now. We know we've got more than three fans out there. Show your TTPB pride, become a fan! See you on the Face.

The Traveling Photo Booth & The State Fair

KSTP has hired us to provide their visitors with FREE photo downloads for the duration of the fair. Indulge in some corndogs or pronto pups (if that's your thing) and be sure to swing by the KSTP Building on Chambers Street, between the Midway and the Grandstand for some FREE photo fun. August 21, 2008 - September 1, 2008

We've been blogged again!

Wendy of BayView Event Center blogged about us again but this time it is video! See it here. Wendy's blog is a great resource for all of you deep in planning.

Sarah from Lasting Impressions Weddings Blogged About Us!

We worked with Sarah from Lasting Impressions Wedding & Event Planning last weekend at The Depot. She is great to work with and even blogged about us! Read it here

Wendy from Bayview Event Center Blogged About Us!

Wendy From Bayview Event Center blogged about us. Her blog is a great resource for all brides-to-be. Read it here.

The Traveling Photo Booth & LOOM

LOOM invited us to be part of LOOMBLOOM and the The St. Paul Art Crawl this weekend (April 25th-27th.) For those who aren't Traveling Photo Booth junkies, LOOM is where it began. LOOM's Ralph Nelson gave us unrestricted access to his brain, his tools, his space and his ridiculously cozy studio furniture for late-night naps. Come by and visit (708 Vandalia St, 4th Floor, St. Paul, MN 55414) The Traveling Photo Booth at LOOMBLOOM. Best time to visit: Saturday 7pm.

The B Collective Blogged about us!

Read it here

The Photo Booth Guy Gets Married...

Well, I didn't JUST get married...To be exact, it has been 4 months and 8 days of complete marriage bliss. I proposed to Deanna on a pogo stick on the side of the highway in front of a heard of cows in South Dakota. Yes, that's how I did it. And I am just as surprised as you are that she said yes.

Since I work in the wedding industry, I thought planning would be easy. How wrong I was. I work with so many great vendors that picking vendors for our own wedding was extremely difficult.

So who did we book and where did we have it? We finally settled on Our Lady of Lourdes for the ceremony and Atlas Bar & Grill for the reception.

After much thought and consideration, we finally signed contracts with....

By Your Side Wedding Planning (Wedding Coordinator)
Happily Ever After Photography (Photography)
Sassafras Floral + Garden Design (Flowers)
Instant Request (DJ)
Complete Video (Videography)
Buttercream (Cake)
Twin City Trolleys (Transportation)
The Traveling Photo Booth (duh, the photo booth)


Before we knew it, seating charts had been finalized, hair appointments and alterations had been made and friends and family were falling from the sky every hour on the hour.

The actual day was absolutely surreal. All I can remember is how beautiful Deanna looked, how sweaty and shaky my hands were, how great the speeches were (thanks Matt & Dave), how much love we felt and how much fun we had. It was absolutely perfect.

To see our wedding photos, click here. To see our photo booth photos, click here.

A small piece advice for those about to walk down that long isle: Walk really s-l-o-w and take at least one moment during that crazy day to take a really deep breath, soak it all in and remember that all is perfect...at least until you get the bill.

Boothing for Ana

We had a blast at Club Ana 149 last Saturday! We donated a photo booth and an attendant to show our support for Ana and everyone who contributes to her cause. It was quite the party - we turned Bearpath Country Club into a New York dance club for a night of friends, dancing, silent auctions and hilarious photo strips. The kids really loved the photo booth and the adults did, too, just not as much as they loved each other in the photo booth (smooch). Everyone had a great time supporting a great cause.

The event was put on by Ana 149, a small community of people who care a lot about a little girl named Ana who has autism. The purpose of Ana 149 is to help raise money to offset the cost of expensive treatments for Ana. The name Ana 149 stems from the statistic that one in every 150 children has autism. Ana is that one. You can view the Ana 149 blog at http://www.ana149.com/. To learn more about autism and the Autism Research Institute, check out http://www.autism.com/.

Boother Party!

Last night we had our Boother Party. To the outside world, they are known as "photo booth attendants" but within TTPB they're known collectively and affectionately as "Boothers." We didn't really have a reason for this party other than it was a chance to have fun and to show our great appreciation towards them. They are the face of our company at events and are the type of people we genuinely like to hang out with. We don't always get the chance to talk much with them outside of the minute or two when they check in at their event or when we help them load out of a venue so we relish every opportunity to get together. They are terrific group of people whose only commonality is TTPB. They have different day jobs, interests and backgrounds. Some are married and trying to pick future baby names while others are still trying to choose majors (thankfully I'm in neither category.)

We gathered at the office and ate enough Italian food to prove low-carb dieting is dead. We had cake, wine and played some Nintendo Wii Sports. I'm not too sure the doubles tennis matches were the perfect team building exercise but it was fun. We were lucky enough to have a photo booth at our party and made a great photo strip guestbook which we plan to add to as the year's go on. Every good corporate party needs The Traveling Photo Booth.... obviously. Later that night we went outside and looked at the lunar eclipse. Opinion was mixed as to whether or not it lived up to the hype but it's safe to say most people thought it was at least "neat" if not "beautiful."

Eventually, festivities were wrapped up and some headed home while others were off to the bar for a little after party. We boxed up the leftovers for whomever wanted them, but TTPB managment will be eating meatballs and rigatoni for a month!

We're featured in Twin Cities Luxury + Fashion!

The Traveling Photo booth in the current issue of Twin Cities Luxury + Fashion Magazine! Read it!

METRO Dogg Party

On Tuesday METRO Magazine hosted a live telecast of the Westminster Dog Show at the Nomad World Pub. The event was a benefit for the Animal Humane Society and sounded like a howlin' good time. (Sorry...there's more) TTPB was itching for some great dog/human photo strips so we donated a booth and it did the rest.

The dogs seemed pensive, but after sniffing the photo booth's butt, their tails began to wag. The dogs' human friends drank some pints and soon everyone was ready for some photo strips.

Not all dogs were thrilled with the idea of sitting in a photo booth (it is the alpha photo booth) but, the owners were ecstatic with the idea and received some photo strips that are sure to end up making the cats shake their heads in wonder as to how they ended up so incredibly domesticated.

Amazingly, a Beagle won best in show! My childhood dog Floyd was a beagle and I'm telling you that contest is rigged. That or genetics have advanced into dangerous territory and most likely need to be stopped. Please help me save the world and tell everyone you know about this blog. It maybe our only chance although Jacob tells me his Beagle Simon was chubby but lovable. I'm betting he fed it doritos.

Everyone had a lot of fun and surprisingly no dogs "marked" the photo booth (we think). So we just wiped her down a bit and headed home to The Traveling Photo Booth lair. The door closing behind us muffled the sounds of melancholic barks and whimpers inside the Nomad. The dogs on the other hand just wagged their tail and looked for treats.
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We're featured in the Mpls.St. Paul Wedding Guide!

The Traveling Photo booth is featured in the 2008 Mpls. St. Paul Wedding Guide! Read it!

Top 10 Photo Booth Questions...

A bride-to-be asked me yesterday what questions she should ask a photo booth rental company (she wanted to book us but we were already booked!) It's a great question so I'm sharing my Top 10 Questions I would ask (if I were a bride in need of a photo booth instead of married man who owns a few photo booths)...

#10. How does your photo booth accommodate small and large groups?

#09. Does your booth print real photo strips? Doubles?

#08. How automated is your booth?

#07. Do you offer a "live preview" so we can take the perfect picture every time?

#06. How long will your prints last? Do you have proof?

#05. Can you give me referrals?

#04. What extras are included?

#03. Is this how you make your full-time living?

#02. Can I visit your office and try it out?

#01. Why are you the best?


Hope this helps and happy photo boothing!

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