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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome to the Tipsy
Guest Podcast.
I am your host, marcoBuenrostro, and every week I'm
here with the top industryexperts, amazing clients and all
my vendor BFFs to bring you thebest tips, advice and juicy
behind-the-scenes stories tomake wedding and event planning
a breeze.
So grab your favorite drink andlet's get this party started.
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Hey guys, welcome back to theTipsy Guest.
I am Marco, your host, andtoday is going to be a little
different than most episodes.
I mean, every week we've had adifferent type of vendor.
You know just to kind of giveyou, you know, all the ideas,
all the advice, all the tips onon different ways of how you can
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plan your wedding.
But I haven't really done anepisode about me, about my
company, which is mbp photobooth.
So today we are going to betalking all things of photo
booths for your wedding, and forthat I have my assistant, brett
, with me.
How are you, brett?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
Doing great.
What's going on, guys?
I'm happy to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
I am so glad you're
here.
I mean, you are the one thatgoes to all the events.
You know I'm thebehind-the-scenes person, but
you're the face of MBB PhotoBooth.
I mean, I think people relatethe company more to you now than
they related to me.
That's true.
Because they see you at everysingle event.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Yeah, but you're also
very well known.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
Everybody always asks
about you.
I'm happy to hear that, and youknow what I am going to tell
you guys.
You know to our listeners.
So Brett has been with me forprobably what?
About two years now.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Yeah, coming up on
that, yep.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
So about two years
now, and, honestly, I always get
compliments from, you know,from either the planners,
compliments from the couples,from our guests.
You know they always say howgood you are with people, which
is you know.
I want to personally thank youfor that, of course.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Thank you, it's great
to hear.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I want to say thank
you personally but honestly, you
know, that is one thing aboutMBB Photo Booth.
You know, I think customerservice is our main priority and
we always want to make surethat we take care of our guests.
Yeah, you know, one of thethings that I always tell people
or potential clients and whenwe do open houses, when we do
the wedding shows, that is oneof the main things that we tell
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our potential clients we bringan experience to you.
We don't just rent you amachine that's going to take
photos of your guest.
So what has been yourexperience?
And you can be totally honestRight now I'm the tipsy guest
host, not your boss.
So you can be completely honest, like, what are some of the
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things that you, I guess thatyou enjoy?
You know about working weddings, about working events, and
we'll go about the things thatyou don't enjoy the most, but
let's start with the good stuff.
What's one of the things thatyou like?
Speaker 2 (03:07):
So I love creating
the memories for these people.
Usually the event photographyis pretty standard, but you
don't get those photos rightaway.
I like just how instant you getthat gratification of you know
taking pictures with yourfriends and family.
A lot of people don't havethese photos that they don't
have these photos with thepeople around them.
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You know, sometimes at thesecorporate events you don't take
pictures with your coworkers butthey have these professional
grade photos right on site.
Uh, they can take as many asthey want.
Sometimes they get theprintouts and it's just instant
gratification.
You get these memories that youcan always have.
You're always going to rememberthat holiday party when you
hang these pictures on yourfridge or, um, just have them on
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your desk in your office.
Or you know, like your friendsand family, sometimes you don't
see your family for a reallylong time.
Sometimes, uh, certain friendsaren't even in the same room
since you guys graduated highschool together graduated
college and now you guys are allback together.
You get to take these big groupphotos and they're just memories
I just like that.
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah, I like that's
what.
That's a great point, because,you know, sometimes we get the
question of well, I already havea photographer.
Like why should I hire a photobooth?
You know, if there's aphotographer already?
You know a lot of our budget isalready going to a photographer
, exactly, yeah.
So I always tell our couplesit's like, yeah, you have a
photographer, but thephotographer it's mainly for you
as a couple.
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You know that they're shootingyou, they're doing your
portraits, they're you.
You know they're gonna befocusing on you and and you're
not gonna see these photos untilprobably like weeks from the
wedding date exactly.
And when it comes to the photobooth, like you mentioned right
now, you know it's instant.
You know people will get that.
They will walk away from thephoto booth with an actual
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printout and then you know, nowtechnology is amazing, so they
just have to put their phonenumber, scan a qr code or their
email address in the photo.
A good, a great quality photowill come right to their inbox
before you know, people used totake a picture of the printout
and they would post it Everyonce in a while.
They still do that, but I feellike you know, these are
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memories that you are creatingin the moment and you're posting
about it in the moment.
I mean social.
Everything is about socialmedia nowadays.
You know, I'm sure you know youhave a TikTok, you have a
tiktok, you have a.
Well, who knows if we're gonnahave a tiktok anymore?
But you know tiktok instagram,snapchat, facebook, even
linkedin.
You know I've had people thatthey they're like you know what
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this looks really good.
I'm gonna take a picture for mylinkedin.
Yeah.
Then they just kick everybodyout of the photo, like if
they're doing a group picture,and then they just take a solo
photo because they want to usethat as their profile picture,
almost like a head shot.
So I think it's yeah.
So I think that is one of themain differences between a photo
booth and a photographer.
You know we deliver thosephotos right away.
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Yeah, and these are thememories that people are going
to be sharing every year,because now you get those
reminders on social media thathey, you were here a year ago.
Do you want to reshare it or doyou want to create a reel with
this memory?
Blah, blah, blah.
So that's what I normally tellmy couples.
You know like that's the maindifference.
You know that the photo boothis for your guest to have a
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great experience at your weddingand the photographer is to
create memories for you as acouple.
Yeah right, I agree with thatyeah, so what are some?
Yeah.
So what are some of, let's say,what are some recommendations
that you would give ourpotential you know clients, our
listeners out there to get thebest out of their photo booth
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booking?
I mean normally three hours, Iwould say.
Is that because sometimespeople ask like you know, how
long should we have the photobooth?
I would say three hours is good.
You, you know, as the personthat actually works the event.
Do always say three hours is isgood.
You, you know, as the personthat actually works the event.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Do you think three
hours is good?
I think it's great, as long asyou plan when it's going to take
place, because sometimes peoplearen't always available.
Um, like we mentioned well, wetalked about this before.
But the?
Um, the dinner.
A lot of people have it bookedfor the like during the dinner
time and nobody takes picturesduring dinner, so usually it's
good to take place after dinner.
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If you have the reception longenough, it makes sense to just
start after, or you can startbefore dinner as well, as long
as it's planned properly.
You don't want to burn an hourjust with people sitting around
eating and I'm just at the boothwaiting to take pictures.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
So if you want to get
the most out of that three hour
time period, I would say, justmake sure you start at the right
time yeah, I feel like I alwayssay I think starting right
after dinner is the best timebecause you know, normally right
after dinner of course you havethe, the toast or you have, you
know, like the speeches andthings like that.
So I mean those, mean thosenormally last for what?
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Like maybe 10, 15, 20 minutesmax, so that's not killing a lot
of your time of the photo booth, but I would say, just burning
an entire hour while they'rehaving dinner it's too much.
Exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
So, yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:57):
So I think starting
right after dinner, maybe right
after the toast, and then maybepushing it all the way to the
end, or maybe even like 15, 20minutes before the end of the
whole wedding, I think that'sthe perfect time frame for a
photo booth.
And then here's a pro tip forour couples out there Make sure,
of course, if you hire MVPPhoto Booth, thank you.
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But if you do end up going witha different photo booth company
, I know a lot of photo boothcompanies out there that
normally set up an hour beforethey start the service and that
can be a little bit distracting,because if they do start right
after dinner, you don't want tohave the photo booth company
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showing up and setting up aspeople are having dinner.
Yeah, unless it's reallynecessary, then yeah, you have
to do it that way.
But I would recommend youalways talk to your photo booth
company and coordinate the setuptime, like with us, for example
, with MVP.
We always set up early in theday and then we go back at the
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time that we get started.
The reason why we do that it'sbecause we don't wanna be
distracting during dinner,during the toast.
Imagine us setting up as peopleare doing the toast.
That's just not.
I don't like that.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
So I think it's
always good to make sure that
you coordinate all your vendorsto set up earlier in the day.
And then another thing is youdon't want to.
You know you don't want to usas a company, you know.
Let's say, for example, we talkto the bride and we're like,
hey, you know we're setting upright before dinner.
And let's say she agrees, sheknows that, but all the guests
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don't know that.
So to me that feels like theguests are going to think that
we're arriving late, yeah, andthey're going to be like like
look at this company, they'reshowing up while we're having
dinner, like what the hell?
Yeah, and then that that isgonna look bad on on on our end.
So I think definitely settingup early in the day is is great,
great recommendation for fornot just a photo booth vendor
but vendors in general yeah, andit also helps because, um, you
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know we're dealing withtechnology.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Things happen all the
time.
Random things could go wrong,we could forget a chord.
It happens every now and then.
You just want to be able totroubleshoot these things and we
have time to do that and makeyou know, make whatever is going
wrong, right before we have tostart taking these pictures.
Especially, we take, likesometimes 200, 250 pictures for
a wedding.
So you know you want to makethe most of the out of that.
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You don't want any technicaldifficulties.
We want to make sureeverything's running smooth
before we start this process.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, I mean
technology.
I mean everybody knowstechnology, stuff happens, and
yeah.
So we want to make sure that wetest everything earlier in the
day, just so that when we goback to the actual event we know
everything is good to goExactly.
And then, of course, thingsstill happen, but at least we
already have everything in placefor us to get started.
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Yeah, what are your thoughts onthe placement of the photo
booth?
Like, what do you think worksand what do you think is like
not such a good idea to set upthe photo booth at a certain
spot throughout?
I mean, you've been to so manyvenues.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
What are your
thoughts?
Speaker 2 (11:07):
on that.
I think it's a bad idea to setit up right next to the food.
Uh, usually there's a line nextto the buffet or something and
that can just kind of ruin theflow of how our line is going.
Uh, it can get just reallyjumbled.
I don't really like setting upright next to food.
Uh, I don't like being rightnext to a really loud speaker,
so if the dj has just boomingmusic and my the speaker's like
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right next to the booth, it gets.
You know, I can't even hear theperson when they're asking me
questions, so it gets a littledistracting and, uh, it's just
hard to tune into what thecustomer needs when you can't
even hear what they're sayingyeah, I guess, depending.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, you know,
because sometimes they're very
limited with space, depending onthe venue.
I I've always said it set upthe photo booth where the action
is happening.
Yeah, so, for example, if thewedding is completely an indoor
wedding, don't put the photobooth outside.
Yeah, I mean, you've seen ithappen to where, like,
everything is happening insideand then we're outside and it's
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there's no action in the photobooth.
You know, people might come outonce, maybe twice, but that's
it.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Yeah, and even when
the the DJ, sometimes we have
them make an announcement thatthe the booth is open.
I've had people like open thedoor on accident and be like, oh
, you're a photo booth, I didn'tknow you were out here, so they
they didn't even tune into whatthe DJ was available.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
And sometimes I'm
just outside for an hour, hour
and a half and nobody's takingphotos yet.
Yeah, I always say that eitherput us um, I would say
definitely inside.
I think somewhat on the way tothe bathroom.
It's a great placement for thephoto booth.
Yeah, because people are gonnago to the restroom many times
throughout the party, throughoutthe wedding, that's true.
So I think it's definitely like, for example, the candle point.
They we normally set up rightin the corner as you're going
into the bathroom.
So I think that is a greatplacement for us.
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I also think maybe, like, let'ssay, for example, if there's a,
if there's a, a stage where thedj is, you know you're still
somewhat close to the dj, butnot really close, like you said
earlier, you know, with thespeaker right on top of you,
yeah, because at one pointeverybody's looking at the dj.
You know, like, as you'redancing, you're the dj is like
the focal point of the of thewedding, because you know
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they're the entertainment.
So I think if you put the photobooth somewhere, like in the
same direction of where the djis, yeah, you know everybody's
gonna be looking that way.
Plus, of course, we have brightlights so they will know we're
there.
But I definitely think havingthe photo booth inside, if the
wedding is inside, it's a greatway to do it 100%.
I feel like sometimes you'retaking a photo of the couple and
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somebody's on the dance floorand they see the couple in the
photo booth.
Everybody runs to the photobooth because it turns into a
meet and greet, exactly yeah,everybody runs to the photo
booth, because it turns into ameet and greet, exactly.
yeah, you know so if we wereoutside, then people were not
going to see that you know thatthe couple is taking photos in
the photo booth becauseobviously we're outside, yeah.
So, yeah, I think that isprobably, I would say, my
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biggest recommendation.
Yeah, the photo booth placement.
I think it it's always gonna bemy biggest recommendation for
couples to, you know, to talk tothe planner, to talk to the
venue and and and figure outwhere and a lot of the venues
now they have, like a specificarea for the photo booth.
Yeah, and I would say to ourcouples that are listening, it's
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okay to move things around.
You know 100, if the venue istelling you this is where the
photo booth normally goes.
If you want it somewhere elsein the venue, I mean, it's your
wedding, it's your big dayYou're the one that's really
going to have, you know, thepower to make that decision.
So sometimes I do tell couplesI'm like, hey, you know the
venue is going to try toconvince you to put the photo
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booth here.
Make sure you say no, yeah, youto put the photo booth here.
Make sure you say no, yeah, youknow because, yeah, like they,
yeah, they.
They have a specific way ofdoing things, but we're the ones
that know what works and whatdoesn't work exactly based on
years and years and years ofexperience doing doing weddings.
So, yeah, definitely, placementeverybody listening out there.
Make sure that you, that you,if we don't talk to you about it
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, you bring that up to us and wewill obviously recommend the
best spot in the venue for thephoto booth.
I mean, we've worked at almostevery venue in town and the
surrounding areas Austin, sanAntonio, the Hill Country so we
will definitely give you a great, you know great advice on where
to put it.
What about?
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You know people are if it's hotor if it's cold or whatever.
You know people are wearingjackets, people are, you know
girls have their purses, or youknow somebody's always going to
be holding a drink.
So another recommendation thatI think always works and I
always tell you guys, you know,when you show up to events, I'm
like, make sure that if nobodyput a cocktail table close to
the photo booth, let's pull oneclose to the photo booth,
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because people always have adrink and sometimes they don't
want to take a photo with thedrinks instead of putting it on
the floor.
Or please to you guys listeningout there, do not put your drink
on our printer.
They automatically think theprinter is like a little table
and they automatically startpointing the drink towards the
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printer and I'm like no don't dothat, especially with our
wooden one.
I'm like, yes, do not yeah, soyes, I mean it is really
expensive equipment.
I mean, if a drink gets spilledonto the printer, that's the
end of the printouts for thenight and that might be the end
of my printer.
So yeah, so I always try tomake arrangements with you know,
prior to the wedding to wherewe tell the the planner or we
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tell the venue or we tell thecouple to, to make arrangements
with the venue to set a cocktailtable right by the photo booth.
Yeah, most of the time, not we.
I mean we got rid of props umyears ago when covet started.
I mean that was our chance toget rid of props.
I feel like props are a thing ofthe past.
I think at least the style ofphoto booth that we offer it's a
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more minimalist, a clean photo.
We want to make sure thatpeople like the photo, that they
can potentially frame it andhave it at their desk or on
their nightstand or somewherearound the house where they're
going to be like oh, I love thisphoto, we took it at
so-and-so's wedding.
So I think the use of props,which is another recommendation,
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I think get away from props.
Don't do props, I mean, unlessyou really want something that's
meaningful to you Like.
For example, we had a weddingwhere the couple they loved,
whataburger and they loved.
Bucky's.
So they're like Marco, can youbring something like Bucky's
related or like Whataburgerrelated?
That's a little different,because it's meaningful to them.
Speaker 2 (17:41):
Yeah, it's not
generic props.
Yeah, it's not like the cheapstuff.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
I mean Fe boas.
Those are horrible because notonly do they look ugly but they
make a mess.
So venues hate it when we usefeather boas Either feather boas
or anything like glittery orlike confetti and stuff.
I know that confetti is so funfor the 360 photo booth but it
can get really messy, so a lotof the venues don't allow things
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like that.
So I think also whenevercouples ask about props, if we
offer props, so yes, we have itas an option, but we don't bring
the props unless theyspecifically request it.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
And also, like
usually, especially with
corporate events, the overlay isso customizable.
Already you can get everythingthat you're going to get out of
props in the overlay.
Speaker 1 (18:29):
Yeah, it's going to
be like like you said you want
to be able to frame these photosand if it's already decorated
on the on the borders, you don'thave really a reason to bring
sometimes if you give them toomany options of props, then it
drags the line forever becausethey can't decide what prop to
use and then they take foreverand then they end up either
grabbing too many props or notgrabbing anything at all.
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So I think if we can avoid props, I think that is the best way
to go.
I agree, at least that's myopinion, which brings my next
recommendation.
Um, right now that youmentioned the overlay, you know,
for weddings, sometimes, or Iwould say most of the time, we
ask our couples to send us acopy of their invitation or
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their menu designs or the savethe date or any of their welcome
signs, so that we can try tomatch that design, to make sure
that it is a cohesive.
You know you want to make surethat the photos look like the
rest of your stuff, the rest ofthe vibe of the wedding.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, I want to say
the big.
The greatest example I think wehave of that is um that quinta
that you sent me to at theredberry recently where it was
willy wonka theme.
Yes, that backdrop was amazing.
I love the whole setup.
I love the way we had the um,the front and the back screens.
It just all fit the vibe of theentire party.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Yep, and that's one
of the things that you know.
When people ask me like, youknow what sets you apart from
other photo booths.
I think that is one of my mainselling points, which is you
know what.
Every wedding is different.
You know we will customizeeverything to match the design
that you have going on.
That again, you know.
You can send us your invitation, you can send us your your save
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the date, whatever design youalready have going on, just send
it to us and then our graphicdesigner can try to match the
vibes.
Yeah, because we want to bepart of.
You know, we don't want to justbe like an extra.
I've seen photo with companiesthat they just like literally
like it's like they designsomething in like old school,
like word, a word document.
Yeah, and it's just like thename and the date.
Yeah, I mean, of course, thename and the date is very
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important, but you also want toincorporate the rest of the
design that they already have.
With perfect example, like yousaid right now, this was a willy
wonka event, you know.
So we incorporated the, thebackdrop that looked exactly
like the, the, like theinvitation, or like the, the
dance floor at that particularevent, like everything was very,
you know, like, like everythingbelonged to, to that specific
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wedding.
So, yeah, design is a big partof our, of our services, where
we want to make sure that yourphoto booth um, either photo
strips or four by six printouts,that they look good and that
people are going to remember,like, oh my God, look, this
looks just like the invitation.
Or oh my gosh, this looks likethe monogram on the screen up
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there.
Or like the dance floor, orlike the napkins, things like
that.
So we always customize everysingle wedding to match the vibe
of the rest of the party.
So, yeah, so that's that's whatwe do.
We, we, we like those littlethings you know that make it
extra special.
What else, so?
What else do you think it wouldbe a good recommendation for
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our couples out there listeningthat that you're like you know
what this, or sometimes theyhave an idea and they think it
might work, but sometimes itdoesn't like what.
What else do you think could bea good, um, good advice for our
listeners?
Speaker 2 (21:53):
well, uh, I don't
know about something that works,
but it doesn't.
But I do just want to touch onthe fact that we need to get the
people that, the people thatare the center of attention in
that booth, a hundred hundredpercent.
Um, usually I don't know.
If you remember, we had awedding where I took pictures of
the entire party and then itwas time for me to pack up and
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they started doing speeches whenit was time for me to pack up,
so I had fully taken down, andthen the couple comes up to me
and are like hey, we didn't getpictures in the booth.
And I was like, oh, I mean, I'msorry, the time is over and I
would accommodate if I didn'tget pictures in the booth.
And I was like, oh, I mean, I'msorry, the time is over and I
would accommodate if I didn'talready pack up everything.
But yeah, you know obviouslyneed to talk to Marco and we
were able to work it out and getthem in the booth and they
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extended.
So you know we got morepictures at the party and they
were happy at the end of the day.
But that happens a lot.
Sometimes people don't comeuntil the very last 15 minutes
and then everybody in the party,like we said earlier, wants to
come and take pictures with thepeople, the people of the hour
basically yeah, that is true,that is very true.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
I think, uh, and
we're very accommodating, you
know, like, depending on youknow, like we're, we can
definitely say, yeah, we'll takeanother one, we'll take another
one, but at one point we haveto stop, exactly, you know,
because, like you said, you knowif you say yes to someone, then
you to say yes to the nextperson, and the next person, and
the next person, and then thatbecomes just like an extra 30,
45 minutes that we're there.
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And this is something that Ialways talk to my couples prior
to the wedding.
If they hire me for three hours, I always tell them I'm like,
hey, we're going to be there forthree hours and if you do want
to extend, you can just let ourphoto booth attendant know and
we'll extend.
And then, of course, you knowI'll send you an invoice for it
later.
(23:33):
You know I don't like to do liketransactions on site to where,
like, you're gonna ask forpayment right there and then, no
, you know, they're having fun,you know.
But I do have that conversationbefore the, the actual event,
where I tell, if you want us toextend, just let us know, we'll
extend until you want us toextend.
And then you know, we'll justsend you an invoice and we'll
worry about it later.
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But yes, we always get that towhere like people are.
Of course you know they'rehaving fun, they're having
dinner, they're dancing, they're, you know, doing all these
different things never come tothe photo booth until the last
five minutes and it's like, butwe were here for three hours,
like, come on, like you know yousaw us here.
So, yes, recommendation isalways go to the photo booth
early on and then just keepcoming back.
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You know, like we're there forthree hours and you can, we,
we're not gonna limit you on theamount of photos that you take.
Exactly, it's unlimited photosthroughout the night, so you can
come back as many times as youwant and we'll take your photo.
Just don't wait until the lastfive minutes, exactly, please.
There you go, oh my gosh.
All right, brett, so we arerunning out of time, but thank
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you so much for finally makingit out to an episode.
I mean, like I said earlier,we've had so many different
vendors, but we really haven'tan episode about us.
You know about, about the photobooth.
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Thank you, brett.
Of course, pleasure to be here.
All right guys.
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