Mammoth

Galas & fundraisers

A night that looks as good as the cause

Roaming coverage, portraits, and instant delivery for galas, fundraisers, and black-tie events. Polished photos your team can post the moment the night ends.

Fash Bash at the DIA · Fuel Our Future Gala

Make it your own.

Every experience starts with our standard setup. Three things turn it into yours, and one decides what guests take home.

The backdrop scene

Pick a scene from our collection: velvet, pure white, color.

See the backdrop library

Your own graphics

Overlays and frames designed for the night: the event mark, the sponsor lockup, the year.

See the overlay library

Your framing

Full body, three-quarter, waist up or headshot. Landscape for the big groups, portrait for the outfits.

Digital first, prints optional

Every photo lands on the guest’s phone in seconds, ready to share. Add prints and guests walk away with a 4×6 too.

On-site printing

How it works

From booking to your gallery

  1. 1. Inquire

    Send the date and the venue. We reply within one business day.

  2. 2. Pick your look

    Pick your backdrop and an overlay with the event mark and your sponsors.

  3. 3. Gala night

    We set up before your first guest walks in.

  4. 4. Your photos

    You get the full gallery afterwards.

Why it matters who you hire

You only get one night. We don’t miss it.

A gala is a production. Here’s what hiring us looks like, and what you avoid.

We dress for the room.

Black tie means black tie. We look like guests who happen to be holding cameras, not a vendor in a branded polo.

We set up early and disappear.

In place before doors, tested and clean. No cables in the ballroom, no scrambling during the program.

Photos the same night.

Selects delivered while the room is still full, so the thank-you post and the donor email go out before anyone forgets the night.

Photos match what you saw.

The quality on our site and our social is the standard we bring. Same lighting, same camera, same eye.

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Vendors we trust.

Our Midwest venues and vendors directory is vendors we know and recommend, documented by us. Nobody can pay to be on it.

Common questions

How fast do we get the photos?

Fast is the whole point.

  • Guests get their photos on their phone in seconds.
  • On coverage days, same-day selects reach your team the night of.
  • The gallery link is sent before the event and photos arrive in it in real time.
  • The full gallery is there the same day.
  • With a dedicated on-site editor, selects flow within 2 to 3 hours of capture, while the event is still running.

How do you dress on-site?

We dress like guests. We dress like we’re meant to be there.

  • Black tie means black tie. Cocktail attire means cocktail attire.
  • For corporate events we match your dress code and clear it with your team before the event.
  • On the floor we stay discreet.

How do guests get their own photos?

Depends on the setup. Most events run face match, so a guest's own portraits land on their phone without scrolling through anyone else's. Some corporate check-ins scan a conference badge instead, or a guest pre-registers and scans a QR when they step up. A few builds run straight off an iPad, with a host sending the photo by hand. The shared gallery, when there is one, is private by default either way — guests get their own frames first.

Is a backdrop included in the base price?

No, and we say so up front.

  • The base price covers the booth, the lighting, the graphics and instant delivery.
  • On a package with a host, the host is in that price too.
  • The Portrait Studio is the exception: it includes a velvet backdrop (a $300 value) or a solid color backdrop. Other scenes, like the flower wall, are not included.
  • A custom scene is quoted on top at our cost and our time.
  • Named backdrops have one price at any event. Backdrops are added to a booth or photo experience, never sold on their own.

Already have a decor company? Have them build the scene into their design and we shoot in front of it.

Tell us about your gala!

We’re excited to hear from you! We reply within one business day.

Event type*

We review within one business day. No drip marketing.