About this vendor
Based in Portland, OR, Portraits at Parties (also called Bad Portraits by Karlee) offers a unique experience in which your guests can sit for a custom portrait they get to take home. Specializing in playful, hand-drawn illustrations, founder Karlee Patton is passionate about providing you and your guests with an unforgettable experience and a keepsake. Throughout your reception, Karlee draws your guests while she asks for their thoughts, stories and advice about love and partnership, which are included as quotes with their portraits.
Karlee takes pride in offering a fun alternative to the traditional photo booth that feels truly personal and goes deeper than a quick photo. As a special touch, she includes a good quote from each conversation. If you choose to order the illustrated guestbook, you and your sweetheart get to see all the portraits and quotes from your guests.
The illustrated guestbook is a special keepsake to complete the experience. This guestbook includes copies of every picture drawn throughout your reception, along with some fun extras. The book also features handwritten messages that your guests write while sitting for their portrait. From the start of your reception to the end, this talented professional strives to provide warmth, amusement, and laughter to you and your loved ones.
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Karlee was such a unique addition to our Wedding & I am so glad we made the decision to have her be apart of our day! Our wedding guests LOVED being drawn as well as being able to ...
write a message to us for our guestbook!
I am an artist & this felt like the perfect way to document the day as well as our guests!
Karlee was a joy to work with! She drew portraits of our guests for our wedding and we got so many compliments from them about her! Our guests loved chatting with her and the cute ...
little quotes she chose to include with their portraits. The portraits were adorable and were great keepsakes for our guests. Karlee was so popular that she kept drawing portraits all the way up until the last minute and even took home a portrait to finish when we ran out of time. We were so grateful to have her as a part of our wedding and highly recommend her for yours!
I found Karlee's work on The Knot only a few weeks before our wedding but instantly knew I HAD to have her be a part of our day! Her sketches are so fun and I loved her guest book ...
that added guests' advice and the sketches she did of the wedding day. Karlee quickly become one of my favorite people because she is so kind, engaging, and genuinely loves having conversations with and getting to know all people. If you don't hire her, you're making a mistake- too many good things to say about Karlee AND her portraits.
Cannot recommend Karlee enough! We first met at my company's holiday party and Karlee charmed everybody - so much so that we immediately invited her to our wedding to draw our gues...
ts! On our wedding day, there was always a line at Karlee's table (the entire 5 hours!!), and everyone was raving about their portraits, how sweet Karlee was, and how much fun they had chatting with her (she is hands down the best, most fun small-talker I know). My husband and I had a blast looking at all of the portraits post-wedding - she pulls out the best quotes from conversations to perfectly capture the folks she's drawing, making for a hilarious portrait that you're more likely to look back on than a photobooth strip. I hope to see her at many events in the future (and hope to have an excuse to book her myself!).
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Portland and beyond. Happy to travel!
Portraits at Parties