The Shooting Comet
About This Vendor
Celestial Mementos of Your Celebration
The Shooting Comet is a family-owned-and-operated photo booth rental company based in Ada, Michigan. With their non-traditional setup, this business strives to provide a one-of-a-kind element to your celebration. Their vintage camper, originally made in 1956, houses high-quality equipment and serves as a unique piece of decor for joyous occasions. Co-founders Trish and Dan Hielkema identified the need for something extraordinary in the wedding entertainment industry. After working for another local company for over three years, they developed the belief that happy couples deserve something more special than the traditional photo booth setup. They carefully designed the interior of their vintage camper to feature a comfortable atmosphere for their guests. With a bistro table and chairs, string lights wrapped with foliage, and window planters, Trish and Dan can contribute to an enchanting and rustic ambiance. The Shooting Comet is committed to providing high-quality service. For your celebration, they the owners, come to help you and your guests take unforgettable pictures. Their package includes unlimited prints, amusing props, customizable photo strip layouts, an online gallery of images, video messages and also text message integration.
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Asian-owned Business, Woman-owned Business
Photo & Video
Digital Files, Photo Booths, On-Site Printing, Photo Props, Social Media Sharing
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My husband and I are so so happy we had The Shooting Comet during our wedding reception! I love that they are a family owned business and truly love what they do. I loved being able to choose all the decorations for the camper. You get to ‘make...
it your own’ with their decor options! They have all the photo props/signs, your guests get a photo copy along with them making a book for you to have before they leave. You even get an email with the pictures if you wanted more copies. Very professional and kind family! So many great things about them and you won’t regret having them! My husband and I are so so happy we had The Shooting Comet during our wedding reception! I love that they are a family owned business and truly love what they do. I loved being able to choose all the decorations for the camper. You get to ‘make it your own’ with their decor options! They have all the photo props/signs, your guests get a photo copy along with them making a book for you to have before they leave. You even get an email with the pictures if you wanted more copies. Very professional and kind family! So many great things about them and you won’t regret having them!
Such an amazing addition to our wedding. Our guest really enjoyed having this and we used this instead of a guest book!
Response from the Vendor on 08/30/2023
We had a wonderful evening celebrating with all of you! Thank you for asking us to be part of your special day 😊
We had the best experience with Trish and Dan. We had so many compliments on how adorable the camper was and how fun it was to create these memories, not only for the bride and groom, but with family and friends as well. You will not be di...
sappointed!! ♥️
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Shooting Comet Photo Booth was a hit at my wedding. Cute quaint and original. Can take pics of groups which is a lot of fun. They print for everyone in the group and one for a leather bound bridal book which they give to the bride and groom on ...
wedding day. Props that are available are top notch and a lot of fun!! Five stars!
Response from the Vendor on 08/08/2023
Thank you fir the kind words, Allie! We had a lovely evening with your family and friends. They were such a fun crowd! Thank you again for asking us to be part of your celebration.
Trish
5 stars all the way!! This was an amazing addition to our wedding and worth every penny! The retro phone was a hit at our wedding and we plan to listen to the messages each year on our wedding anniversary. We are so happy to be part of The Sho...
oting Comet's, wedding chronicles!!
Response from the Vendor on 08/08/2023
We spent a very fun evening, albeit quite warm, with your guests and so enjoyed seeing them having such fun making great memories together! It’s what makes this job so much fun. Thank you again for inviting us to be part of your special day!!...
Trish
We loved having the Shooting Comet at our wedding. They were so sweet to us and our guests and everyone raved about the booth. I'd recommend them to anyone! The book they gave us was so cute and it's amazing to have so many photos to look at th...
e morning after the wedding. Seriously the nicest people, too!
Response from the Vendor on 06/05/2023
Thank you, Megan! We had such a lovely evening celebrating with your family and friends! It was the perfect summer night! Thank you again for asking us to be part of your celebration!!
I cannot say enough great things about Trish and Dan with The Shooting Comet for making my daughter's wedding even more special. I booked them as a surprise wedding present and they did an awesome job with coordinating the surprise! Everyone ...
loved getting photos and the happy couple still loves laughing at the surprise photos everyone took while they were busy with other things that day. I highly recommend this company and will definitely book them for other events!
Response from the Vendor on 01/12/2023
Thank you so much, Paulette! We loved being a surprise feature for your daughter and her husband. And your guests definitely had a wonderful time especially with all the fun hats!
Thank you again so much for inviting us to be part of your ...
celebration and we’ll look forward to working with you again maybe on a work party (your co- workers were so fun!).
Thanks
Trish
We hired the shooting comet photo camper for our daughters wedding, it was the hit of the wedding! And everyone got a souvenir photo strip to take home, and the bride and groom got a nice keep sake album to keep, it was worth every penny! The...
y were very nice to work with! Definatly would recommend .
loved, loved this! i saw them at the bridal show and could not pass up booking them! this is an awesome, beautiful, and fun photo booth! i got a book at the end of the night that had everyone’s photos in it so we could see how much fun they had...
with the photo booth!
Response from the Vendor on 08/28/2022
Thank you Mackenzie!!! It was so much fun and your family and friends really enjoyed taking pics and making memories!!! We have the best job 😊
Trish
The Shooting Comet was the perfect photo booth for our wedding! Dan and Trish, the owners, were amazing to work with. They were flexible, accommodating, and did everything they could to make sure we had an amazing experience! The camper itself ...
was adorable, and our guests had such a great time taking pictures! I would highly recommend The Shooting Comet!
Response from the Vendor on 08/10/2022
Thank you so much, Mikayla! We had such a lovely evening celebrating with you and Tate and all your friends and family. Thank you again for inviting us to be part of your celebration!!
Trish
Our experience having the Shooting Comet photobooth for our daughter’s wedding was a dream come true! Trish was organized, helpful with details, and prompt - if she said I could expect an email or a call from her on any given day, it was always...
true. I felt like I had to do a little micro-managing with some of our vendors, but never did I feel that way with Trish. I just put it in her hands and stepped away - so very appreciated!
On the day of our daughter’s wedding, Trish and Dan arrived exactly at the time promised, and went about setting up without needing anything from us. It was so seamless and easy. It was so fun to step outside of the venue over a few hours that evening and glance over to see people crowding around the camper, laughing, and trying on hats and props and engaging with Trish and Dan. It was all abuzz! Everyone was SO INTO IT.
Every guest received a strip of their pics, right on the spot. Trish presented my daughter and new son-in-law with a very adorable keepsake book, where everyone had a pic strip mounted in it and had written a little note or wishes near their individual strips. It meant so much to my daughter, and she enjoyed looking at it often in the days following the wedding. It was sentimental for her to look back at the happy, smiling faces that shared that magical night with them.
Would recommend over and over again - it was the best!!
Response from the Vendor on 08/04/2022
Have you so much Rhonda! We had such a lovely time with you all and loved that your guests were enthusiastic abt the photo booth. It makes it so fun when people love having fun while having pics taken! Thank you again for inviting us to be...
part of your celebration!!!
Trish
Shooting Comet is the best photobooth around!! We were hoping to use their camper but due to availability we used their open air booth instead and it was perfect! They had a great variety of props and were able to print as many copies of the ph...
otos we needed. They also put together a book of all the photos for us to look back on. Very personal, sweet family business. Thank you Shooting Comet!!
Response from the Vendor on 07/14/2022
Thank you for the kind words! We had a great evening despite the rain and enjoyed seeing your family and friends making fun memories together!!
Trish
We have the shooting comet at our wedding reception on 6/4/22 and it was absolutely amazing! Trish and Dan were so awesome to work with and you can tell they love what they do! They let us customize exactly how we wanted to camper so it fit us ...
perfectly! They were so friendly, professional and you can tell they truly love what they do! We loved watching all of our guests have so much fun and enjoying the shooting comet! Everyone is still buzzing about how cute, fun and unique it was! Dan and Trish even gave us a heartfelt wedding card and an amazing book with all the pics from the evening with hand written notes from our guests! We would definitely recommend the shooting comet to anyone wanting a fun extra wow factor at their next event! Thanks so Dan and Trish!
Response from the Vendor on 06/08/2022
Thank you for such kind words, Lisa! We definitely love what we do and I’m glad it was obvious 😊. Thank you again for inviting us to be part of your celebration!!
Trish
If you’re looking for the most unique and crowd pleasing photo booth , this is for you! We already reserved them for our next daughters wedding ! So many compliments. Love the owners too. They make sure your day feels extra special too!
Response from the Vendor on 06/08/2022
Thank you for taking the time to review us, Amber! I know how crazy life can be when you own your own venue AND your daughter gets married there during the beginning of wedding season. We loved celebrating with all your family and friends and...
can’t wait till the next one next year 😊
Trish
We recently worked with The Shooting Comet at our wedding and I could not have asked for a better experience. Trish was so accommodating and easy to work with. I heard nothing but positive feedback from our guests and I would highly recommend w...
orking with them
Response from the Vendor on 06/08/2022
Thank you again so much for having us be part of your special day and for your kind words. It’s the best job ever when you can so enjoy making people happy!!
Trish
Wonderful people. Everyone had so much fun using the photo booth during my daughter’s wedding. We love the pictures. Helped make great memories for their wedding. We would highly recommend The Shooting Comet.
Trish and Dan were so wonderful to work with for our wedding celebration, they didn’t require much direction from us the day of and got set up and ready to go! Our guests loved how unique it was, and the photos were absolutely amazing, we will ...
always cherish them! They made sure we got the whole bridal party and then some keepers of just us :) They are kind and genuine people and have such a cute setup, Highly recommend!
Great communication, thorough with their details, and a great couple to work with! They did not hesitate to make this photo booth more custom to our theme. We will definitely work with them again!
We absolutely loved this photo booth! And so did our guests! We have a beautiful album of all the pictures and personal notes as our guest book, plus the soft copy of all the pictures. Top notch, professional, fun!
Our wedding day was absolutely perfect. A big part of making our day so incredible was the shooting comet photo booth. We wanted our wedding to be unique, fun, and stand out from every other wedding and the shooting comet did exactly that. Tris...
h and her husband were great and we highly recommend them!
The Shooting Comet was one of major highlights of my wedding! Guest of all ages loved it, we had a line going for photos all night. Trish and Dan are so sweet and they were so accommodating, I decided to book last minute (literally a week befor...
e) and they made it happen even with their daughters open-house happening the next day. They had a personalized album ready for us at the end of night and all the digital photos sent to me within days after the wedding. Super impressed. I highly recommend booking this adorable trailer, you won’t regret it.
The most beautiful photobooth in West Michigan! You will not regret having them at your wedding! The communication with Trish was the best and she was so flexible with our changing wedding plans. The photobooth and the book for the photos are b...
oth so beautiful. If you are looking for a photobooth, go with THE SHOOTING COMET!
Professional yet totally relaxed and fun! The owners were an absolute breeze to coordinate and plan with. They even got in on the fun with us! As the night got busy, they made a point to find us to ensure we were able to get a chance in the pho...
to booth before the night was over. Would recommend without hesitation for any event!!!! The photo album was great to look through in the days following and made for a perfect guest book- and the owners made sure people signed it as the night went on!
Though we canceled our reception, the Shooting Comet was one of the things we were most bummed about not getting to use. Trish was extremely great to work with and we will definitely use them for any future events.
The Shooting Comet was such a hit at our event and I'm so glad we decided to book it! Everyone was able to leave with a customized souvenir and it fit with our venue perfectly. They were easy to book, easy to work with, and I would highly recom...
mend adding them to your special event!
The cutest photo booth ever! The owners are the kindest, sweetest people to work with. Highly recommend for any of your photo booth needs!!!
Worked hard to not only take great pictures, but went the extra mile by working to get all the wedding party, parents and guests involved in the fun. We had a blast - and got great feedback from everyone who participated.
Amazing experience! Timely arrival, friendly, professional, and very responsive. The whole experience was outstanding. My husband and I Highly recommend!
Due to COVID-19, we had to change our May wedding plans and were not able to use The Shooting Comet as we won't have enough guests! HOWEVER, I still want to write a review because from the very beginning, Trish was NOTHING but the kindest, mos...
t helpful and supportive vendor. She was extremely flexible and always messaged me back when I had questions about things very promptly. I'm beyond disappointed, and I would highly recommend Trish and her family to any interested bride. Having done a lot of research, they are fairly priced for what they offer! Plus, the camper is SO CUTE. You will not be disappointed :)
My fiance and I had to cancel our reception due to COVID-19. Trish, whom we had been working with hand-in-hand through the details, was incredibly understanding when we had to cancel due to state mandate. It is amazing to work with a profession...
al who not only offers a fantastic service, but brings integrity & great customer service to the table. No one could foresee this catastrophe. Thank you, Trish! We were able to get married, but if we reschedule our reception, we will undoubtedly be contacting you again!
The Shooting Comet was the most popular thing at our celebration! They customized the booth and the photo strips especially for us. We can’t wait to find a reason to use them again!
Response from the Vendor on 11/13/2019
Thank you so much...we absolutely loved being there too!!
Contact Info for The Shooting Comet
West Michigan
Meet the Team
Trish, Dan and Chloe Hielkema
Owner
We'd like to introduce the faces behind The Shooting Comet camper. First up is our daughter, Chloe. She's an amazing almost 15 year old who could set up the entire camper by herself at this point. She keeps everything organized and assists guests in making sure they take fantastic pictures!
Dan uses his talents to manage the finances and make any creative projects come to life. When you admire the Comet's bespoke interior, you are admiring his handiwork.
Trish does all the marketing, social media, emails, etc. She is constantly on the lookout for cool new items to add to our collection.
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