Wow what a fantastic year for myPhotobooth! We’ve been busier than ever providing our all inclusive photo booth hire to weddings, birthdays and corporate events all over England and Wales – and even Scotland! So busy, in fact, that we’ve had to expand again and add another 2 photobooths to our fleet!

We’ve visited some fantastic venues, such as the lovely Birtsmorton Court in Worcestershire, the stunning Oxwich Bay Hotel down on the beach in Swansea, the Oxford University Colleges as well as some amazing historical sites like Eastnor Castle and Berkeley Castle. And we met some fantastic guests!

We’d like to thank everyone who made 2013 such an incredible year and we hope to have as much fun in 2014!

In the meantime – head over to the myPhotobooth facebook Page to see some of the great photos that we’ve capture throughout the year!

Wow, That was a cold one!! This month we had the pleasure of attending the wedding reception of Heidi and Rich in the beautifully historic town of Hay on Wye. We set up in a gazebo in the patio area of the venue which did get a little chilly – in fact the reported temperature did reach -2c and there was a flutter of snow!

But we weren’t there to get warm, we were there to celebrate with the Heidi and Rich on their wonderful day :) And I must say, what a lovely group of people they were – so nice that I felt it a bit rude when we had to leave. Which we did after being given a plateful of the worlds thickest lasagne surrounded by slices of ham and beef.

It was a really great night indeed – why not check out the photos on our facebook page!

On 10th February this year Penyard House hosted another of the amazing Ellis Wedding Shows. Situated out in Ross on Wye, Hereford, Penyard House was absolutely full of wedding suppliers and bursting at the seams with brides to be and their partners.

Spanning god knows how many rooms and over 3 floors, there was a look of products and services on offer, from wedding photographers in Hereford and the West Midlands to Chocolate Fountain hire, suit hire, harpists, sweets, stationary, flowers, wedding DJ’s… the list goes on!

Being big fans of the Ellis Wedding Shows, we try to get to as many as we can. This time Ellis really outdid herself. As well as taking over even more of the lovely wedding venue, Ellis added a chillout area for the men who were, reluctantly, dragged along when they’d rather be in the pub or watching the football! On top of that, Ellis put on a complete catwalk show exhibition to show off the wedding dresses from Lily Oliver Bridal and Amore Bridal Wear with mens suits from Bill Child Formal Wear with commentary by wedding DJ Pete Stead.

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And, let’s not forget, myPhotobooth was there! As usual, we had the photo booth all setup and running so the visitors could have a go and see how everything works – and, or course, take some photos home with them. You can find the photos from the day on our facebook gallery.

So remember! If you are looking to hire a photo booth, give us a shout!

You might have heard about QR Codes – or “Quick Response Code” – you will certainly have seen them. The QR code is often a small 2 dimensional square barcode that, once scanned using your phone or other mobile device, will offer you various new bits of information. It might contain a virtual business card that you can save to your phone, maybe a message or a link to a website.

QR codes are becoming more and more popular, with many graphic enthusiasts going nuts with the various design options available. So when we decided to make our latest QR Code, we wanted something that would stand out, something that wasn’t just a coloured in picture with a logo slapped in the middle. And what we came up with might just be the worlds first shaped QR code! (possibly, we couldn’t find any others :P)

There are many QR codes hidden in shapes, but they are always square, or soft squares with the shape built around them. What we wanted to do was change the perceived shape of the QR code itself – ok so it’s still “square” overall, but we wanted to chop pieces out to change the perception of the shape from looking like a standard QR code that had been coloured in. It actually worked surprisingly well, in fact, so well that we expected Google to be full of chopped up – working – QR codes; but it wasn’t.

So here we have it, our new Shaped QR Code! Designed by Jamie O’Rourke of our parent company Voodoo Red Media ltd.

(It scans faster in black, but it does also work in colour.)

It’s that time of year again, when the lovely people at Krispy Kreme open up a new hotlight store full of their tasty doughnuts! This time we took a photo booth all the way up to Edinburgh for Scotlands first ever Krispy Kreme store opening!

After a long drive from deep in the West Midlands, we arrived at Hermiston Gait ready to set up the photo booth for the evening launch party. By 5pm the doughnuts and coffee were flowing (the MC2 girls doing a fantastic job as always) and the music pumping courtesy of Edinburghs ForthOne (FM) Radio team. Everyone had a great time, and who wouldn’t with a factory belt of non-stop doughnuts! Anyway, Jamie whipped out his compact camera and captured a bit of video…..