Here are a few facts about St Patrick’s Day to amaze your friends with on St Patrick’s Day:
St Patrick (387 – 461 AD) is the patron Saint of Ireland although he was born in Roman-Briton (now England). His birth name was Maewyn Succat.
There are 33.7 million U.S. residents who are of Irish ancestry. That number is almost nine times the population of Ireland itself.
19 Presidents of the United States proudly claim Irish heritage—including our first President, George Washington.
The very first St. Patrick’s Day parade was in Boston in 1737. The largest parade in the US, held since 1762, is in New York City, and draws more than one million spectators each year. The first parade in Dublin wasn’t until 1931. In 1948 President Truman became the first president to attend a St. Patrick’s Day parade.
15 million cards are exchanged on St. Patrick’s Day and 13 million pints of Guinness are consumed.
Don’t forget to reserve your Top Hat Photo Booth including the amazing green screen with iconic Irish backgrounds for unmatched entertainment at your St Patrick’s Day party.
The celebration of St Valentine’s Day can be traced to the ancient Roman holiday of the Lupercal. Celebrated at the ides of February, Lupercalia was a fertility festival dedicated to Faunus, the Roman god of agriculture, as well as to the Roman founders Romulus and Remus.
It is believed that in 498 AD Pope Gelasius declared February 14 St Valentine’s Day in an effort to “Christianize” the pagan festival. Valentine was a priest who had served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret.
Valentine greetings were popular as far back as the Middle Ages, though written Valentine’s didn’t begin to appear until after 1400. The oldest known valentine still in existence today was a poem written in 1415 by Charles, Duke of Orleans, to his wife while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London following his capture at the Battle of Agincourt. Several years later, it is believed that King Henry V hired a writer named John Lydgate to compose a valentine note to Catherine of Valois.
The most notorious St Valentine’s Day was 1929 when 6 people associated with Bugs Moran and 1 bystander were gunned down by members of Al Capone’s gang dressed as policemen. Bugs Moran himself was on his way to the garage where the “massacre” occurred when he saw the “policemen” enter and managed to escape.
Today about 1 billion Valentine’s Day Cards, 110 million roses, mostly red, and 36 million boxes of chocolates are sold each year.Those in the know, however, will rent a Top Hat Photo Booth for a truly memorable holiday.
Weather forecast for New York, Boston and Washington DC:
Bitterly cold. Snow showers this morning becoming more scattered later. Dangerous wind chills as low as -30F. High around 0F. Winds NNW at 15 to 25 mph. Chance of snow 100%.
Enough already! Let us bring some hot destinations to your next party with a Top Hat Photo Booth rental. You name it, we’ve got it, all in the comfort and fun of a photo booth!
One of our favorite things for a holiday party is the photo booth with a green screen. The choices for digital backgrounds are virtually unlimited and can be matched with any holiday theme. The photo booth can then apply the background at random sequentially or the guests can choose them for each shot. The results are incredible images and roaring laughter. A word of warning though - Don’t wear a green sweater or you may end up like this gentleman - Santa’s watching, naughty or nice!
Top Hat Photo Booths had the pleasure of working with Jessica Strickland Photography at the fabulous wedding of Taryn and Austin at the Crown Plaza in Indianapolis, IN. The Wedding Planning was done by Tonya Shadoan of Circle City Planners who also did the gorgeous flowers for the event. The wedding Videographer was Jet Kaiser.
The custom photo booth was done using engagement photographs of the bride and groom from Jessica Strickland. Top Hat Photo Booths has the ability with our large photo booths to offer any type of exterior wraps or customizing to fit your event. We are doing a lot more customization of wedding photo booths. Brides realize that our quality booth can really enhance their big day and make their reception that all of their guests will remember.
Top Hat Photo Booths can also offer customized photo strips that are terrific for your guests as a party gift for all of your guests. We can match the font and color of your event to be sure that everything is just right and to meet your expectations. Guest LOVE taking home the custom strips. The photo strips are always hung up so they can be looked at as a nice reminder of your event for a long time.
The holidays are a popular time for engagements and for brides to book photo booths. Be sure to contact Top Hat Photo Booths soon to reserve your date. We look forward to making your event special.
Top Hat Photo Booths LOVES to hear from our happy customer! It isn't often that a customer will take the time to call you when they are happy, we were delighted to hear from the MOB (mother of the bride) of a recent event. The "mom" wasn't sure what to expect with the photo booth or how the reception would work with a photo booth. By the end of the evening the mother and father and been in the booth several times and LOVED IT!
Of course we had our top notch Technicians at the event to be sure that everything worked flawlessly, as usual. We also do a personalized logo for the bride with the bride and groom's name and wedding date and in the wedding colors and font. The bride and mother were also thrilled with the Memory Book.Top Hat Photo Booths can make your wedding or event just as special. Visit us at: www.tophatphotobooths.com for more infomraiton. If you are getting married in 2013 then this is the time to be reserving your booth. Top Hat is located in many cities in the east along with providing photo booth rentals in Indianapolis Photo Booth Rentals and the best Chicago photo booth rentals.
Many companies like to rent a Top Hat Photo Booth to add FUN to their convention or corporate party. However, many companies overlook the fact that hiring a photo booth is also a great marketing opportunity for your product or brand. It is important that if your company hires a photo booth to be sure the photo booth company has experience with corporate event marketing. This is key to making sure your company is professionally represented and your images is projected in the manner that is important to your brand.
There are many ways that an experienced and professional photo booth company, such as Top Hat Photo Booths can help. First of all, make sure that the company you hire has the ability to provide custom graphics that are large and can easily be seen at the event. Many “small” photo booths are too short to be seen from very far away. You want to be sure that the company has a track record and can show you samples of their custom wrapped booths. You will also want to be sure that the printer they photo booth company uses is high quality so you can have your company name, brand or whatever you want print clearly and legibly on the bottom of the photo strip. A professional company will use expensive sub-dye printers that are great for quick and high quality printing.
Is your company into Social Media such as Facebook, Twitter or Yelp? Be sure that your photo booth company has the ability to instantly upload photos to your website or social media of your choice. This is a great way to get people to your site to view their photos. You should consider adding a sticker to the back of photo strip and have a company representative on hand to point out where the photos can be found.
Finally, be sure that the photo booth is a professionally built booth, not a plywood box or velour shower curtain. You want to be sure that the booth is classy and professional to enhance your brand or image. Also, be sure that the photo booths that will fit several adults without having to sit on each others laps. It can be very awkward to have to sit on a colleague’s lap (or your bosses lap) to get a fun photo booth picture….
Top Hat Photo Booths is a professional photo booth company that is perfect for corporate events. With locations in most east coast cities and offering photo booth rentals in Indianapolis and Chicago, they have the experience to help with your corporate event.
Looking for a way to additional fun and memories to your event? Top Hat Photo Booths is now offering custom backdrops to add the “celebrity” experience to your wedding photo booth rental, corporate party, gala or fundraiser. Think of the an affordable photo booth with the added fun of walking the red carpet at a celebrity event. We can add any type of background, if you are having a wedding we can add your logo to the backdrop, corporate events we can add your logo. How about a fund raiser with your best sponsors on the backdrop?
Think of the possibilities, you can still have great props along with the backdrop. Your event will definitely be the talk of the town. With our high end equipment your guests will enjoy posing and getting a print of their pictures in about 15 seconds and then even be able to instantly upload the pictures to their own social media site. Instant social media uploading with the backdrop is a great way for company parties to really promote their event.
Our unique photo booth experience is perfect because we only offer the best photo booth rentals in 12 states and still growing. Affordable photo booth rental is easy with Top Hat Photo Booths.
Having FUN photo booth props can help enhance the entire photo booth rental experience. When you are considering renting a photo booth you want to be sure that the company offers great props like Top Hat Photo Booths! All of our offices keep the props up to date, clean and in good repair. We don’t use homemade props, we want your event to be the best photo booth rental experience it can be. If you are having a themed wedding or event, please let us know well in advance and we are happy to try and and do what we can to find props for you that will fit the event.
Along with really fun photo booth rental props we can also do a green screen photo booth. Think of the possibilities, we can do city scenes, fun colors, animals, places or whatever you might have in mind for the green screen. Corporate photo booth rentals really like the green screen as they can put their company logo on the screen or even company head quarters for added fun. Our affordable photo booth rental makes it easy to add green screens or custom backdrops or whatever you have in mind. We want to be sure that your photo booth rental experience is Top Hat!
Do you have a company with several locations? We offer photo booth rentals in many cities, how about making one call for your photo booth and getting the same awesome booth rental in several locations? Top Hat Photo Booths are here to help!
We have locations in: Top Hat Photo Booths New York, Top Hat Photo Booths Boston, Top Hat Photo Booths Chicago, Top Hat Photo Booths North Carolina, Top Hat Photo Booths Indianapolis, New Jersey Top Hat Photo Booths, Washington D.C. Top Hat Photo Booths and many more. Book your photo booth with the best: Top Hat Photo Booths!
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