What a year 2012 has been for our photo booth hire teams! We’ve been out all over the country, from Worcester and Birmingham in the West Midlands all the way out to reading, London, Somerset and South Wales! With clients from California, Australia, Norway and France and enquiries from Germany, Italy and Berlin! Back in September we made the trek up to the Metrocentre in Newcastle for the opening of a new Krispy Kreme store and this month we’ll be off to another grand opening at the Krispy Kreme Hotlight store in Edinburgh – the first in Scotland!

We’ve had a great time throughout the year, starting off with Amir Khans engagement party with his beautiful fiance Faryal Mahkdoom at the Reebok Stadium in Manchester. There were about a thousand guests in attendance including boxer Ricky Hatton and a variety of big Bollywood acts and performers providing the entertainment alongside us! A month later and we were off to Birmingham for the 26th birthday of premier footballer Luke Moore. Needless to say, Luke seemed to be having a great time!

In March we were booked by Sport Relief to take the photo booth to the big run at Cardiff Bay in South Wales. It was a very early start but well worth the time as Sport Relief raised an astonishing £68 million for vulnerable people in the UK and abroad. Fortunately, the rain held off and everyone enjoyed a fantastic summers day. A big congratulations to everyone who took part, especially the giant Bananas, the green girls and the guy in the female Viking costume!

May saw one of the most elaborate birthday parties that we have been to so far! It was Georgias 18th, out in the Cotswolds. We were told “it’s a circus theme, can you make the photo booth pictures like a circus?” – of course we could (custom print designs are included in all of our packages!). As we rounded the corner and popped out from the trees we saw, not one, not two, but three circus tents in the grounds of Georgias home! As well as the circus tents there were a number of stalls full of sweets and candy floss, there were stilt walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and performers! The weather was perfect and the whole place glowed as the sunset and fireworks show started.

In July we were off to Manchester once again, this time to Rio Ferdinands Rosso Restaurant in Spring Gardens for the Inside Soap TV Awards launch party – sponsored by Boohoo.com. It was a beautifully stylish venue, full of paparazzi and celebs. Being the Soap Awards, we met lots of fantastic people from Eastenders, Emmerdale, Coronation Street and Hollyoaks as well as a few extras who popped in for a bite to eat like, The Only Way is Essex’, Mark Wright. Everyone was fantastic and had a great time and we got some amazing photos on the night.

By September we were well underway. Another sports trip down to Cardiff, this time on behalf of Sports Wales for the homecoming party of the Welsh paralympians – a remarkable group of people to say the least. And it wouldn’t be long until we were in Cardiff again (weddings aside) as we were booked by, the world famous, Hamleys toy shop from Regeant Street London for the opening of their store in St Davids, Cardiff! And I must say, the enthusiasm and excitement of the staff didn’t go by unnoticed.

“But hang on!”, I can hear you say, “I thought you did photo booths for weddings!?” And you are, of course, absolutely correct. We have been to fabulous weddings all across the country, from Ascot and Reading to Bournemouth, Somerset and Bristol to Cardiff, Newport and Swansea – not forgetting all of the lovely weddings in Birmingham, Chester and Coventry! One of the best things about going out with the photo booth is that you get to meet so many people and see so many different sights. We’ve set up the photobooth in castles and manors, peoples gardens, hotels, pubs and restaurants and every single one has been fantastic. And, lets not forget, the exciting situations that we have landed ourselves in; like the time Jamie turned around to see the wedding magician at Kerry and Scotts wedding to find that they had booked the legend that is Paul Daniels! Or when the marquee at Polly and Loughlinn’s wedding became waterlogged, the roads flooded and the security guards car ended up sideways in a ditch!

There really have been too many fantastic times to mention. But we would like to thank all of our clients, all of the brides and grooms, the University leavers and HR people that we have met over the past year. We’ve had an absolutely amazing year and we are looking forward to doing it all again in 2013 – this time even bigger and better!

On behalf of myPhotobooth, thank you for all of your support and he’s to a great 2013!!

Early on in December this year, we were fortunate enough to be booked by California based company “Rimini Street“, to add a twist to their stand at this years UK Oracle Users Group (UKOUG) convention at the ICC in Birmingham. Having only been at the ICC a few days previous for the NCFE Awards, we were lucky enough to know our way around. The guys at the ICC where great as usual and very helpful – so a big shout out to them.

It was certainly an interesting day with all sorts going on and people in attendance from all over the world. The Rimini Street guys were fantastic and a pleasure to work alongside – and they certainly enjoyed the photo booth! I think we need to make a special mention to the guys on the other stand who managed to crash a remote control helicopter while flying it around indoors, it put a smile on quite a few faces :)

This was the second year that we took our photo booth to the GlobalX/7side Christmas party and it certainly lived up to expectation! We were at the Vale Resort in Glamorgan again this year, which is a fantastic place as a wedding venue in Wales / Cardiff as well as all manner of corporate events. In fact, you may have seen the Vale Resort in Episode 4 (Season 1) of Gavin & Stacey – where the families drive down to Barri for a wedding fayre at the Vale!

So, true to form, 7side hosted their annual “Red Rooster” awards, which – of course – we made a little note of. You can read about last years winners on our photo booth hire blog here: GlobalX Christmas Party 2011

The Nominees for the Red Rooster Awards 2012 were as follows;

1. Mary – Who locked herself in the toilet onboard a train and tried to break her way out by picking the lock with a fork!
2. Phil – Who tried to make a nice pattern in his tie with a hole punch, only for the punch to get stuck before scattering paper dots all over the floor
3. Gaz – Who went on a business trip to Australia with Wendy and Sian and inadvertently ended up texting the girls instead of his girlfriend with the message, “Just had a nice wine, back in my room in my pants eating Haribo and Pringles”
4. Vicky – Who furiously called in tech support because her mouse wasn’t working, only to find that she had been moving the stapler around the desk instead.
5. Mark – Who, mistakenly, advised the “Hymen Manouevre” for a “particularly dry scotch egg” that was lodged in Wendy’s throat – which came as a surprise as you may recall last
   year Wendy informed everyone that she had a “deceptively deep mouth”
6. Fliss – Who likes to use her own phonetic alphabet, which we dare not repeat here!

And the winner was; Fliss!

We’d also like to give a special mention to Kathryn who, officially, has the smallest feet that we’ve seen whilst out with the photo booth! Here’s to another great year for 7Side and we hope to see them again in 2013!

While team one was battling through the elements in Kidderminster we had Mike out in team two making his way through Malvern in Worcestershire to the fabulous Birtsmorton Court for the grand reception of Kirsty and Rich. It was a fantastic night and the photo booth was a big hit with all of the guests joining in to have their picture taken.

Towards the end, the weather took hold and the flood water started to come through the floor! Everyone had to evacuate the venue saving all of the presents and gifts on the way. But despite the little hiccup with the weather, the night was a great success and the floods only make Kirsty and Richs wedding day even more memorable!

We would like to wish both Kirsty and Richard all the very best for the future and hope that the water stays away long enough for them to enjoy their honeymoon together.

Wow! What a weekend. Unless you’ve been on holiday, I’m sure you are aware of how bad the weather has been across the country this week. There have been some fantastic floods! However – floods didn’t stop Noah and we’re determined that they won’t stop us getting our photo booth out to our brides across the country.

On Saturday night we took our photo booth hire service to Kidderminster near Worcester for Natalie and Dave’s reception at Stone Manor. It was a fantastic night and the photo booth went down very well with all of the guests. Everyone had a great time and commented on what a lovely day Natalie and Dave had had.
On the way back, a little bit of rain turned into a severe flood risk and, even with the diversion, we had to drive through quite a few floods. At some points flowing like rivers! But we made it back in time to up load all of the photo booth images to our online galleries ready for Natalie, Dave and all of their guests to enjoy in the morning.

We wish Natalie and Dave all the best for the future and hope that they have a fantastic long life together.