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The Picstrips photo booth pictures for the MPI event held at the Fort Worth Omni are now available online. Please click here to view them.

Hello all! We have officially launched the photo booth side of our company. Our first official event happened last evening for MPI at the Fort Worth Omni Hotel. A lovely event and a lovely hotel!

Next Tuesday the pictures will all be posted for the attendees to be able to get on and download. The www.picstrips.com website will be up and running next week as well.

In the meantime, for more information about our photo booths, please contact us at the office at 817-410-8399.

On February 14th we had an awesome wedding with Liz and Richard Hardy! The stage was set by our Dream Weddings wedding planner, Micki Novak, who assembled an awesome team for the reception at the Adolphus Hotel's Grand Ballroom featuring photographer Edward Ramirez, videographer LaDonna Aiken, and floral by Darren and Craig at Fete des Fleurs.

Randal Stout acted as Master of Ceremonies and our lighting company, Lumen, provided the lighting for the event, which featured pinspot lighting for all the tables and a red color wash of the ballroom and dance floor, as seen in LaDonna's video above.

Dallas Rocks with Russell Simmons, Magic Johnson, Pat & Emmitt Smith from Hakim Sons Films on Vimeo.

Michael Tiegs with All Star Productions called upon us to help with an event that he was doing for Annika Cail of 521 Events. The event was the Dallas Rocks charity fundraiser which happened on November 7, 2008. It was held at City Place near downtown Dallas.

We had a chance to work with some great people and do some star gazing. For the event, Michael asked us to provide video services which included supplying four 50" plasma screens for the presentation that happened during dinner. We incorporated IMAG video (live feed video) from Shezad Mangee's team of videographers intermixed with a Flash video presentation and video files supplied by the client. Be sure to check out our copper pintuck pipe and drape which is featured against the back of the stage where Magic Johnson is speaking.

After a dinner, presentation and auction, guests were invited upstairs to the 42nd Floor enjoy the after party. Guests were treated to Academy Awards-style gift shopping, the VIP "Peacock Lounge" which we lit with peacock colors and peacock feathers, and the dance lounge which featured hip lounge furniture and a blue glow, thanks to our lighting. DJ Cassidy was spinning the tunes as guests were dancing under our club-style lighting. Check out the video for snippets of the event.

On Sunday the 12th we had a great wedding reception for Monica and Mike Mancuso. Their reception was held at the Stonegate Mansion in Fort Worth. We had a chance to work with some great people on this event including wedding planner Shari Johns of As You Wish Events, photographer Gary Donihoo of F8 Studio, and cinematographer Chris Jones of Mason Jar Productions.

We can't wait to see what the photographs look like because the event was stunning. Chris gave us the link to his preview video and told us to post it up here on the blog for all to see. The video definately shows off the lighting we had done for the ballroom at Stonegate. More to come.