Great Gifts For People Who Love Good Times!
We’ve all been there: some one you know is getting married and it’s time to buy a wedding gift. You want to give something memorable and thoughtful, but you also kind of want to be original – even if it means deviating from the gift registry. Perhaps you’re a Maid or Matron of Honor looking for the perfect way to add spice to your bride’s special day. Why not get her a GO FESTIVE! Gift Certificate to use for her wedding reception or bachelorette party? The entire wedding party can chip in to give the gift of good times to the happy couple!
GO FESTIVE! Gift Certificates can be used towards any of our services – Photobooths, Flipbooks, Fun Flicks, or Festive Fun + Games. You can purchase gift certificates in any amount – purchase an entire package, or purchase a gift certificate as partial payment towards a package of the recipient’s choice.
GO FESTIVE! Gift Certificates aren’t just for brides, however. They make wonderful presents for anniversary parties, birthdays, Bar/Bat Mitzvah parties and graduation celebrations. Imagine giving your graduate a party with an unforgettable video game tournament on a giant inflatable screen. Or turning a bar/Bar Mitzvah party into an extraordinary celebration with photobooth or flipbook favors everyone will cherish. With GO FESTIVE! Gift Certificates, you can give love and good times to anyone, for any occasion!
Call our office to order your GO FESTIVE! Gift Certificate today!
Flashback: North Bowl League Party – June 4, 2009
Northbowl League Party!Another clip from North Bowl!June 4, 2009 was a great day for GO FESTIVE! Our friends at North Bowl in the Northern Liberties neighborhood of Philadelphia booked us to bring our flipbooks station to their annual league party. North Bowl, located at 909 North 2nd St., is a great local hotspot. Bowling lanes and a bar dominate the lower level, while upstairs there is a lounge with pool tables, pinball machines, another bar, and even a couple more lanes!
Oron, North Bowl’s owner, met the GO FESTIVE! team at the door and showed us upstairs to our corner of the party. That night we had four team members working – Kelsey, Christine, Chris and Ryan. We were in a prime location – right between the air hockey table and the bar! As the team began setting up, we kept an eye on the goings on around us. A buffet was being set up, and Oron graciously invited us to have a bite to eat once the party got rolling. North Bowl is well known for its tater-tot-centric menu and killer mac and cheese, so the whole team gladly accepted Oron’s offer.
Guests began to arrive around 8pm, right on time. The flipbooks camera was ready to go, and the first guest stepped up to make a flipbook. Filming seven seconds of video is sometimes harder than it sounds, especially when you’re not sure what you’re really doing! Our first flipbook maker re-filmed his clip a couple times before getting one he liked (he decided to dance to the music playing and take a big swig of his drink!). That’s the great thing about GO FESTIVE! flipbooks - the video clips are quick to film, so if you’re not happy with your clip after the first try, our staff is happy to give you a “do-over”! A couple minutes later and our first customer of the evening was holding his brand new flipbook and laughing over how great it was. He was soon showing his bowling buddies and the word began to spread.
Now, this gathering was for North Bowl’s various bowling leagues and teams, so there was quite a mix of people in attendance. Men, women, old, young, artists, mechanics - there was a great cross section of people and styles from this diverse neighborhood of Philadelphia. Watching buddies have mock fist fights and married couples dance together in front of the camera was truly a great time. One young man made a flipbook of himself devouring a piece of watermelon – it looked quite hilarious in slow motion, and even funnier if you flipped the flipbook backwards!!
A steady stream of revelers visited our flipbooks station throughout the night, not even stopping while Oron presented league awards. During brief lulls, our team members were able to enjoy heaping plates of tater tots and mac and cheese made with Goldfish crackers on top – yum! As the evening wound down there was a final rush of people to get a flipbook made. Kelsey, Christine, Chris and Ryan were working at a fast pace and handing out lots of business cards. Everyone seemed to want to have GO FESTIVE! for their next party.
At the end of the evening, Oron thanked us for coming and we all agreed that the evening was a complete success. All the guests got to eat their fill, hear some great music, eat some delicious food and drink some tasty beverages – and most importantly for us – make a flipbook or two! We hope to do more events in the future with North Bowl, and we hope that you’ll be able to come and join us there!!
Here are a couple video clips from our great night at North Bowl. Take a look, you could be behind the camera next!
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Meet the Go Festive! Team
It’s time to meet the Go Festive! team! Our employees are all dedicated, hardworking, fun individuals with very diverse backgrounds. We are lucky enough to have artists, designers, musicians, illustrators and even a librarian on our team! But what we all have in common is that we want your event to be a great one with lots of happy memories. As Go Festive! continues to grow and expand, we’ll be adding more members to our “family”. But for now, read on to find out more about some of the members of the current gang – maybe you’ll run into one of us at an event near you soon!!
You might see Chris working events for photobooths, flipbooks, OR outdoor movie nights. So far, he is the only Go Festive! employee fully trained in all three!
Hi, my name is Chris. I hold a B.A. in Graphic/Illustration/Web Design, and am certified in Information Technology. Although I haven’t been spending too much time with my design or IT work, I am in a full-time hardcore/punk band that writes/records and goes on tour. When I am not out on the road I spend my days collecting records/tapes, riding my bike, doing freelance design work, eating, hanging out with my dog (Dave), and reading comics/graphic novels. My current music playlist has been: Archers of Loaf – All The Nations Airports, American Analog Set – Know By Heart, The Appleseed Cast – Low Level Owl Volume I, Count Me Out – Permanent, Third Eye Blind – Self Titled, Failure – Magnified, and Quicksand – Slip.
T.C. is a great longstanding Go Festive! team members, and a great new dad!
My name is T.C. I’m 32 years old and live in the University City section of Philly with my wife Janet and our son Cyrus. Also, I’m the founder of the only ‘real’ Arts consortium in the world: The International Consortium for the Cultural Arts. Come check out the website here!
Christine works mainly in the office at Go Festive!, although she occasionally helps out at events. Still, if you call to make a reservation chances are she's the one you'll be talking to!
I’m Christine, known to some as Kisså. I’m currently splitting my time between working with Go Festive! and attending Drexel University’s iSchool in pursuit of a Master’s Degree in Library Science. I hold a BA in English Literature from Moravian College, where I also helped to run the Moravian College Theatre Company. When I’m not working in one capacity or another my favorite pastimes are reading and being outdoors, things I like to do concurrently. I also play on a (lamentably bad but highly amusing) co-ed softball team and I’m learning how to homebrew. My favorite way to describe myself? “I like to make people laugh, and I believe that love will save the world.”
