Top Spring Wedding Color Ideas in 2023

The new year is right around the corner, so it’s time to think about spring weddings! We love springtime weddings because the color options are so fun. 

In the last few years, we’ve seen a massive shift in wedding style when it comes to color. Gone are the days of minimalist and muted wedding aesthetics. Bold and bright is in! 

For spring weddings, that means you get to have fun with your decor, springtime blooms, stationery, and whatever else you want to add a splash of color to at your wedding. Keep reading for our top spring wedding color ideas in 2023.

Lavender

Purple has been having a major moment lately, and in the spring of 2023, lavender will be all the rage. Here are a few fun ways to use this color:

• Add real lavender sprigs to your bouquet, floral arrangements, and boutonnieres

• Dress your bridesmaids in hues of pastel purple

• Wear an amazing pair of lavender heels

• Use lavender toss bags for your getaway

• Cover your cake in gorgeous purple flowers

Whether or not you actually incorporate real lavender flowers, there are tons of ways to use lavender in your color scheme. And since lavender is also a hot flavor right now, you can use it in your catering to really amp up the theme! Everyone loves lavender lemonade, lemon-lavender pastries, or a great lavender cocktail.

Pink streamers from our sister brand, Pop & Drop

Bright Pink, Dusty Rose, and Blush

Orange might be competing with pink, but that doesn’t mean that pink is going anywhere! There are more popular pink shades than ever. In fact, in the last year, we’ve seen some gorgeous all-pink weddings!

Pink hues can up the romance and whimsy at your wedding. There are tons of ways to pull in more pink, from your flowers to your decor. Getting married around Valentine’s Day? Mixing pink and red has been a huge trend lately too, so why not go all out?

If you love softer pink shades, hues like dusty rose and blush are also here to stay in 2023. They’ll be a top choice for brides who want to ditch all white and go for an unconventional wedding dress. Delicate pink colors are also perfect for spring because they’re gorgeous with sage green and other seasonal shades!

Bright Orange

Despite what Elle Woods thinks, orange might actually be the new pink. Seriously, this color has had an amazing rise in popularity. Everyone loves deep orange hues for fall weddings, but brighter oranges will also make a huge splash in spring weddings next year!

Bright orange is so cheerful, and it fits in perfectly with the wedding trends we’ve seen lately. From disco balls to feathers to neon signs, the trends are all about turning your wedding into a party that no one will forget. Bold color choices are part of that, which is where bright orange comes in!

If a bright burst of color isn’t your thing, coral, rust orange, and gold will also be popular options that are in the same family. Another fun way to add more orange to your wedding is to use vintage amber glasses in your table settings.

Dusty Blue

Move over, navy! Dusty blue is the new favorite blue shade for weddings. While blue isn’t traditionally a spring color, it will pop up in tons of springtime weddings this year. From bridesmaid dresses to table linens, dusty blue is a gorgeous pop of color that still feels delicate.

Dusty blue is also a versatile color that blends well into so many pallets. It works well with silver, darker blues, green, pink, and cream.

Bright Yellow

Just like bright orange, bright yellow has had a huge resurgence in wedding trends lately. In fact, mixing orange and yellow is on trend too! 

However, we’re not talking about the pale canary yellow shade that was popular a few years ago. This time around, couples are going bolder with sunflower yellow. If you’re going for a rustic look, go warmer with honey yellow. For a minimalist look, daffodil yellow is a paler option that still invokes the springtime vibe.

Customize Your Wedding Photo Booth for Spring

Are you planning on having a photo booth at your wedding? We might be biased, but we think they’re a must-have! Photo booths offer a fun activity for your guests to do at your reception, and they get to go home with a custom keepsake from the big day.

There are tons of ways to customize your photo booth to match the spring trends in 2023. Here are a few ideas that work with Oh Happy Day photo booths:

• Choose a photo booth backdrop that matches your spring colors, like lavender, pink watercolor, or rose gold

• Dress up your backdrop with bright streamers or balloons

• Add a custom neon sign to your backdrop

• Go with the flower wall or boxwood wall to bring in more spring elements - you can even add more flowers to the boxwood wall!

• Instead of a backdrop, request a custom streamer wall and use bold colors

One of the best things about throwing a springtime wedding is the endless color options, and you can pull them into your photo booth too! From streamers to blooms, you can create a custom photo booth backdrop that brings your springtime dreams to life.

Rent Texas’s Favorite Photo Booth For Your Spring Wedding

If you’re getting married in the Austin, Texas area next year, Oh Happy Day Booth can bring your custom photo booth to life! A photo booth turns any wedding reception into a party, and you’ll have amazing photos to document the big day.

We love dreaming up custom photo booths to match any wedding decor and theme. Simply contact us to start scheming a perfect photo booth for your spring wedding!

Mackenzie and Sean’s Elegant White Photobooth at Their Villa Antonia Wedding in Austin, TX

We love that Mackenzie and Sean opted for a classic white backdrop for their portrait photo booth rental. Everything about their black-tie wedding was elegant, and it goes to show that you don’t always need to add bling to throw a stunning reception. 

Sometimes less really is more. When you have a wedding venue as breathtakingly gorgeous as Villa Antonia in the Texas hill country, most of your wedding decor is already done for you!

Villa Antonia is just over 30 miles outside of Austin, and the journey is worth it for the sweeping views of that Texas hill country! As soon as you step foot at this event venue, you feel like you’re at a centuries-old Italian villa. Weddings here are truly magical!

The floral arrangements that Mackenzie and Sean picked out made the venue even more romantic. From the cascading greenery on the stairway railing to the floating roses in the fountain, every corner of the villa was elegant. 

We’re also obsessed with Mackenzie’s timeless white and blush bridal bouquet! Thank you Lacey and Lee Photography for the gorgeous photos!

At Oh Happy Day Booth, we love all weddings, whether their glamorous and trendy or classic and minimal. No matter what, your guests will have a blast snapping photobooth shots, and they always get a fun keepsake from your big day!

We have a luxury photo booth for every type of event. Get in touch today to tell us about your event and book your booth rental! 

Our response to covid-19 in the world of photo booths

PHOTO BY SMS PHOTOGRAPHY

Updated on 9/21/2021

A note from our owner, Kelsey Harrison:

As the impact of COVID-19 continues, I wanted you to hear directly from me about the mitigation efforts that Oh Happy Day Booth has enacted to reduce the risk of infection of our team members, our clients, and their guests. My focus remains on supporting our Oh Happy Day Booth team, while at the same time doing my part to preserve the health, safety, and well-being of all those with whom we come in contact.

I think it is extremely safe to assume that everyone has been significantly impacted by COVID-19 in one way or another. The entire photo booth industry relies on a healthy events industry, and the events industry relies on the ability for us to be able to come together as a community and celebrate special days. As we look toward the future and anticipate what it holds for us, we at Oh Happy Day Booth work every day to ensure the level of customer service our clients are accustomed to is not diminished.

We continue to closely monitor and assess this evolving situation, and any changes in company policies and procedures regarding COVID-19 precautions will be based on scientific studies and official reports, and any changes we make will be updated here. I can’t emphasize just how much I am itching to get back to celebrating in full swing, and I am making sure that we are able to get to that point as safely as possible by expanding and refining our safety policies. If you have any personal questions requirements or preferences, please email me at hello@ohhappydaybooth.com and we will do our best to accommodate within reason.

1. Masks // In addition to their usual all-black and white attire, our staff will be required to wear masks at all times while on the property for an event.

2. Portrait Booth and Glam Booth activations // For the foreseeable future, our team members will monitor the photo booth from afar, keeping an eye on the booth at all times, but limiting direct interactions with guests. Your point of contact will always know where our team member is located, and the team member will be there in a flash if something happens like the printer paper and ink need replenishing! We love our clients, and care about their guests, and want to be there to support them on their big day and by physically distancing our team members from the booth itself, we are able to make sure they are healthy for our couples the following weekend as well. To accommodate this distancing, we have changed and optimized our start screen graphics for these services so the photo booth process is seamless and straightforward to ensure guests are able to use the booths without the hands-on assistance of a team member.

3. Sanitized Selfie Stations // Our Selfie Station rentals will operate as usual, but our staff will sanitize everything before the event begins and at the end of the rental.

4. No props // We know this is a significant bummer, but there is no feasible way to properly sanitize every prop between guests, so we will be foregoing props for the foreseeable future. Clients who have this upgrade as part of their package are encouraged to choose another upgrade as an alternative!

5. Photo guest books // For clients who would like to stick with their photo guest book, guests can pick up a clean pen from one bin and put it into one labeled ‘used’ when they are done. Pens will be sanitized between events.

6. Sanitizing all equipment before and after events // All our equipment will be sanitized before and after events, and all our boxes and equipment will be sanitized inside our storage facility as well.

7. Increased pay // All of our team members providing services at events are doing so with the utmost caution to ensure your guests have a great time. During this season and for the foreseeable future, Oh Happy Day Booth has increased their hourly rate without raising client costs. If you feel so compelled, any and all tips given to the booth attendants during events will be retained by the team member working the event, and would be greatly appreciated.

What we are requesting from our clients:

1. Masks // Please encourage your guests to wear masks. This has been proven by the CDC to protect other people from getting sick if you are sick, even when asymptomatic. This is a really wonderful way to respect your hardworking vendors whose lives depend on being able to work events every weekend.

2. Set up location // If it is possible to put us away from the dance floor and other major foot traffic spots, that is ideal.

3. Following the CDC’s minimum standard health protocols // We know rules are no fun, but they’re here to protect us all. Please encourage your guests, planner, vendors, and venue to follow appropriate guidelines regarding large events.

Ally and Daniel's wedding

This is what champagne and sequin dreams are made of!

We had the best time with Ally and Daniel on their big day at Brodie Homestead! The dance floor was packed all night and you know we love a great dance party! The guests were having the time of their life on the dance floor and creating their own dance battles and we’re here for it. But we’re cheeseburger fans until we die and one of our favorite details was how the couple incorporated Whataburger table tents for their seating chart to help guests find their tables! Uhhh yes please!

Our photo booth had a line from the moment it opened to the moment it closed. If the guests weren’t dancing, they were taking photos in the booth! We paired our portrait booth with our large gold sequin backdrop and decided on a 4x6 layout. The groom is a firefighter and they wanted to tie that theme into their overlay. We love how it paired with the champagne backdrop! Congratulations to Ally and Daniel!

We love designing your overlay with your wedding theme or something very unique and special to you! Curious to learn more? Email our sales team Kati@ohhappydaybooth.com!

six reasons why roaming photography is the new go-to Event photography service

Photo booths will always have a special place in our heart. They’re the bread and butter of our business, but if you’ve been reading our blogs for awhile you’ve seen a huge recent trend in roaming photography for our clients. We’re huge fans of this service! If you’re stuck between renting one of our photo booths or booking roaming photography, check out these reasons why roaming could work for your event:

1. Mobility – Roaming photography allows our photographer to move around your event space and capture it all versus being stationary like with a typical photo booth! This is an ideal concept if you have a large guest list so we can maximize and take photos of the whole party like we did at this fundraising event. This is also ideal if you have several stations or rooms your guests will be visiting during the event! You’ll get photos of guests enjoying all elements of your event versus waiting for them to hop in front of the photo booth.

2. Time efficient - With a traditional photo booth, it’s easy for a line to form, taking your guests away from your event! Roaming photography is the perfect way to alleviate this challenge because it only takes our team 20-30 seconds to take a photo versus 45-60 seconds with a photo booth. This way your guests can get the same photos they would with a photo booth then back to having fun at your event! We did this for an event here, and they absolutely loved our efficiency!

3. Minimal space – Because only a photographer is needed, roaming photography takes up no space! If anything, our photographer is just another person at your event like at this Bumble event we did this summer! If you decide to add printing to your service but still don’t have much space, no worries! With the table and printer added, we only take up 2x4’ of space!

4. Increased interaction – The beauty of our roaming photography is having a positive and professional photographer with a DSLR camera take candid and posed shots of your guests at your event! Our photographer will even let you know when to smile if you need the heads up as well, so you truly are picture perfect with every shot!

5. Facial recognition – Yep, you read that right (Cue Mission Impossible theme song). Our software uses facial recognition so your guest only has to put in their information once and every time they are spotted in a photo, it automatically gets sent to them! Which gives the guests the power of printing their own photo in seconds! Gone are the days where a guest needs to type their phone number or email in each time they want a photo, wait until their friend uploads the photo, or it’s finally sent to them days later.

6. Budget friendly – Roaming photography can work with any budget. It’s perfect for any type of event you wouldn’t normally pay for a full time photographer but still want great memories! Some popular events we’ve done with roaming photography are: rehearsal dinners, wedding receptions, corporate and social parties, grand openings, pet friendly events, boat cruises, and sorority events! Roaming photography can be used to supplement what your photographer may otherwise miss or you have a smaller budget.

As far as upgrades with roaming photography, we can easily add any of our luxury backdrops or installations, extra time for detail shots of your event and anything that you would normally get with a photo booth! Still not convinced or have questions? Check out the video below and shoot an email to our team today to learn about how roaming photography can be used at your next event! kati@ohhappydaybooth.com

Art Dinner at Laguna Gloria

Can we have this night on repeat please?

 The Contemporary Austin planned and hosted the Fifth Annual Art Dinner in celebration at Laguna Gloria, one of the dreamiest venues in Austin. Although we may be bias, check out video of the venue here. There were exhibitions by world-renowned artists to display their sculptures and contemporary work, honoring their creativity.

 The guests were dressed to the nines in their vibrant elegant attire, as requested by The Contemporary Austin. Every detail from the place setting at dinner to guests broaches and cufflinks were awe-worthy. We wanted to keep the vibrant elegance, and our photo booth was paired with a streamer backdrop provided by The Color Condition and a velvet loveseat. Our set up proves you don’t have to stand for a photo op if you can pair it with well-designed furniture! We added the Art Dinner sponsors along with the logo to the image overlay, which is one of the many perks we offer for sponsors! You can read more about the power of sponsorship on our blog here.

 We had the best time with the guests at Laguna Gloria and we’re already looking forward to next year’s dinner. Congratulations to all the recognized artists!

Seven Reasons Why a Photo Booth is the Perfect Addition to Your Wedding

Imagine this moment… the partner of your dreams gets down on one knee. They start telling you how much you mean to them, you’re the love of their life, they can’t live without you. Then comes the big question comes, “Will you marry me?”. You say yes, then your next thought… “Oh I can’t wait to book a photo booth for our big day!”

 That’s how it goes, right?

 No, not exactly. But we can dream.

Fast forward several months down the line and you’re planning the details of your reception. When you start thinking about what you want to have at your party, a photo booth seems like a no-brainer. You saw how much fun guests had with the photo booth at your best friend’s wedding last fall, and you know it’s a must-have. However, you want to make sure having a photo booth adds value to your reception, not something that just takes up space in the back corner, and we’re here to help.

Here are six reasons why having a photo booth at your wedding is the perfect addition:

1. It’s the perfect wedding favor from your big day. A photograph from a photo booth is truly a memory from your wedding, unlike a koozie or shot glass that will likely be left at the reception or end up in the junk drawer at home as soon after the big day is over. Photo booth prints are displayed on refrigerators, office desks, in a picture frame, or a background image of a phone. Your wedding reception is now on repeat for all of your guests as they look at the images from your photo booth every day.

Photos courtesy of Katie James Photography

2. It’s all-night entertainment for everyone. Although it may be hard to admit, not every person at your wedding will be dancing all night, no matter how many times you play Shape of You by Ed Sheeran. You may also have some guests that aren’t frequenting the bar either. A photo booth is entertainment for your guests without the pressure of needing to have wicked dance moves or liquid courage.

3. Your guests can be themselves. You know those formal photos with the wedding party and family that are taken right after the ceremony? It’s not always appropriate to have your guests or party show off their personality. That’s where a photo booth comes in. They can be goofy and make funny faces with no fear of judgment- because the sillier, the better.

Photos courtesy of Nikk Nguyen

4. A photo booth can glam up an otherwise boring corner of your reception. When you’re planning your reception you want to maximize your space. You’ve got your DJ or stage, tables, dance floor, food and bar, but there’s one corner in your reception hall that doesn’t satisfy your aesthetic. You secretly hope no one will notice the bare and boring corner, but wish you had something to glam up that part of the room. A photo booth with a charming backdrop in that corner will encourage your guests to have fun.

5. Your photographer loves us. You hired your photographer to focus on you for the day, and they won’t have time to take photos of Aunt Susie with every single one of her nieces and nephews. A photo booth will allow all your guests to take photos until they get one they enjoy and will share, all without distracting your photographer.

6. Your guests can share photos instantly. Long gone are the days where your guests have to wait for the photos of the big day to be uploaded, edited and then sent out several weeks later. We live in a world of instant gratification, so all our booths come equipped with digital sharing. As soon as the photo is taken, they can share it through text or email so they can post on social media.

7. It's the perfect way to incorporate your wedding hashtag. A photo booth is the perfect way to incorporate your wedding hashtag. Encourage all guests to post on social media with your hashtag then all their photos from your big day will be in one location! You can also add the hashtag to the bottom of the printed photos to help guests remember your special day. Don't have your wedding hashtag yet? Get yours professionally written by the team at Wedding Hashers!

There are several more reasons why a photo booth is a perfect addition, but we narrowed it down to our top seven. Want to learn more about a photo booth for your party? Email us at hello@ohhappydaybooth.com.

Photos courtesy of Angela King Photography

Katie & Jamie's Wedding at InterContinental Stephen F. Austin

 There was magic in the air for Katie and Jamie’s December wedding.

The couple had their reception at the InterContinental Stephen F. Austin in downtown Austin. During the reception, they did a choreographed dance to Bruno Mars “24 Karat Magic” and had the guests engaged and entertained the entire time. As if the reception wasn’t sweet enough, their wedding cake was a cut to resemble our state’s flag. That’s what we call Texas pride, y’all.

 We kept it classy with our portrait booth paired and our gold sequin backdrop. The couple loved the concept of an old school photo booth so we designed the print outs to resemble photo booth strips. The photo booth was packed all night with friends and family documenting their fun. We wish this wedding were on repeat every weekend to relive the enjoyable night!

 Congratulations to Katie and Jamie on their big day and marriage!

Photos courtesy of Bennett Creative (@bennettcreative)