I hired these people after determining that the space for my wedding reception would be quite cramped and wouldn't fit the traditional 'photo booth'. Kimberly and her team were very nice. They had great customer service and well received my husband's own artwork for our magnet frame. They arrived on time and were very friendly with taking unlimited pictures and giving us the CD of all the pics at the end. But here is my gripe.
We had 100 guests, about 80 adults and 20 kids. Our package included 200 magnets and 8 free ones when she found out I was a Yelper. 208 magnets total. More than enough for each of our guests to take home a magnet. During my reception, I walked around to chat with people and asked them if there were having fun and they showed me their magnets. Some of them had multiple pictures of the same pose, but the pose included 1) one looking the wrong way, 2) one person with their eyes closed, 3) one person not even ready to take the shot, and 4) the 'good' shot. Much to my dismay, Magnetic Moments printed every single shot! So the three whack shots, not only did they print them, they printed them in duplicate! So instead of taking 4 pictures and printing the BEST one (in duplicate), they printed all FOUR shots, in duplicate, yielding 8 magnets, 2 of which were worth 'putting on your fridge' and the other 6 wasted. I walked around and more people showed me the same issue... Multiple shots of whack pictures and then duplicate magnets printed. HUH?!?
If I knew that they would just be printing the 'first 200 magnets', irregardless of how whack the picture looked, I would have had requested someone from my family sitting behind their computer and picking the best shots to be printed to get the best 200 magnets. However, no one is back there doing quality control of what gets printed, hence the 3 shots, duplicated into magnets, that no one wants to keep as a picture, what more making into a magnet to put up on their fridge.
It made me quite angry and in fact, if I knew that, I probably wouldn't have hired these people. Nice as they were, I'm paying for QUALITY magnets, not just random photos to make their 'number of magnets' count.
Here are some words of advice for your future/potential magnet customers:
1) If you take more than one shot of the same pose, pick the best shot and print that magnet, not every shot you took and it get taken against the magnet count.
2) If someone blinked, don't print it.
3) If it's off centered, don't print it.
4) If it's an action shot and it doesn't look right in a magnet frame, don't print it.
5) If it's not a good picture, it won't make a good magnet, don't print it.
6) If you can look at the magnet and say 'I wouldn't put this on my fridge!", don't print it!
It's just very sad that I ordered 200 magnets and of all the magnets, only about 120 of them are quality magnets. At almost $4 per magnet, I expected better quality. Would I recommend them to a friend? Not at this point. I even have people asking me why MM printed a magnet of a photo that wasn't a good picture? What do I say to that? Definitely not a magnet they want to keep as a souvenir so definitely not a magnet they would want to post on their fridge for everyone to see.
The team needs to have better quality control of the magnets they are printing (as well as cutting, why were some of the other magnet edges bleeding into other magnets? It seemed rushed!) and not just try to shoot the first 200 out. If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have hired them for my wedding. Definitely not worth the money paid for, wasted money for a bunch of pointless magnets, or what my friends call "duplicate and bootsy ones".
The only good thing is, the photographer stays and takes candid pictures for the duration of the time you have them. So while my 208 magnets had printed out their max, the photographer kept on shooting pics for the duration of the hired time. They included those pics in my CD that they gave me at the end of the night. Another bummers because those pics came out better then the pics they took at the beginning of the night and made into magnets.
Looking back with 20/20 hindsight, I would have opted for a photobooth. read more