Sam Welty, artist and ShutterGroom

Amy had emailed us about having ShutterBooth for her March wedding. I suggested they come over to our home office and check out the ShutterBooth, meet us, see what we do, and see if we’re a fit for her most special day. Amy brought along her ShutterGroom, Sam. After seeing the booth in action and talking about what they want from ShutterBooth, you could tell Amy and Sam wanted ShutterBooth at their wedding.

In the course of our conversation, we found out Sam was an artist, and not just any artist, but a mural painter. Our 2 year old, Annabelle, has become obsessed with fish. From her visits to the Virginia Beach Aquarium, to her daily requests to watch ‘Little Nemo’ by handing us the remote and saying ‘Fish, Fish’, to her little beta fish in her room courtesy her Aunt Mere, Belle just LOVES fish. We let Sam in on this secret and showed him Belle’s room. Jaquelynn and I talked with Amy as Sam just stared at the walls. It was like we weren’t even there anymore. After a few minutes, he proposed a trade… We bring ShutterBooth to their wedding for a small fee, and he’d give Belle some fish on her wall. Annabelle is the CEO of our little family business, so we couldn’t turn that down.

Sam came by the other day to do the mural. We had pretty high expectations after seeing his portfolio. We figured he’d paint some fish above her bed and call it a day. We knew it’d be great, but we weren’t expecting him to be in there all day. As high as our expectations were, we were BLOWN AWAY. It turned out unbelievable! The discount we were giving them didn’t do the mural justice, so we are doing their wedding for free and we still feel like we’re getting the better end of the deal. The only issue we have is while Sam and Amy will only have one wedding, we plan on having more kids and will definitely be giving Sam a call when we do.

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