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The FêteFone Experience
FêteFone takes the place of a traditional guestbook, allowing guests to record voicemail messages instead of writing notes.
At your event, guests just pick up the handset on a telephone you’ve selected, hear a greeting you’ve pre-recorded and leave their message after the tone.
Once you return your FêteFone to us, your messages are assembled and delivered in a digital download that you can listen to for years to come, or optionally pressed into a real vinyl record that you can play on any record player!
With many phones to choose from, FêteFone also serves as an additional décor element at your event, reinforcing your theme or design concept. And, it provides an additional activity to keep your guests engaged and entertained throughout your celebration.
With a FêteFone at your event, your guests can record messages that will warm your heart, make you laugh and help you remember the day for years to come.
FêteFone also serves as an additional décor element at your event, reinforcing your theme or design concept.
And, it provides an additional activity to keep your guests engaged and entertained throughout your celebration.
There’s just nothing like it.
At your event, guests just pick up the handset on a telephone you’ve selected, hear a greeting you’ve pre-recorded and leave their message after the tone.
It’s just like leaving a voicemail, only simpler—FêteFone connects the “call” automatically, with no dialing required.
If you’ve set up an outgoing voicemail message on your cell phone or office phone, or ever recorded a greeting on an answering machine, you can set up a FêteFone.
A FêteFone consists of two pieces:
- a telephone you’ve selected to coordinate with your event décor, and
- the FêteFone hub, which handles the recording of your guests’ messages.
The system is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
The only thing you need at your event is a standard power outlet or extension cord that’s within about 5 feet of your FêteFone.
To set up your FêteFone, just:
- plug the phone into the hub and plug the hub into a power outlet,
- pick up the handset and follow the prompts to pre-record a greeting to your guests, and
- press a simple key combination to activate the system and allow guests to begin recording their messages.
The setup process takes less than five minutes, and detailed step-by-step instructions are included with every FêteFone rental.
The FêteFone also provides clear voice prompts to guide you through every step of the setup process.
Checkout takes less than five minutes. You will be asked for your event date, shipping address and credit card information.
Your FêteFone will be reserved for your event and charged to your credit card when you place your order. You should receive a confirmation email shortly after your transaction is processed and a separate shipping notification with a tracking number once your FêteFone has shipped.
All rentals include FREE round-trip shipping anywhere within the continental United States. Your FêteFone will be scheduled to arrive at least two days before your event date (e.g., by Thursday for a Saturday event). A pre-paid return shipping label will also be included with your order.
After your event, simply pack your FêteFone in the box it arrived in and affix the pre-paid return shipping label that was included with your order over the old shipping label. Then, drop the package off at the shipping provider specified on the return shipping label within two business days after your celebration.
If you need a longer rental period, just contact us before placing your order, and we’ll be happy to accommodate.
Once we receive your return, your messages are assembled into a downloadable mp3 file that you can listen to for years to come. You will receive an email with a link to your messages typically within a few weeks after your FêteFone arrives back at our offices.
If you’d like something more than a digital download, we can also press your messages into a real vinyl record that you can play on any record player!
If there’s a phone you’d like to use that we’re not currently offering, please feel free to contact us and we’ll see what we can do.
We also offer a virtual FêteFone experience where anyone can call a number we set up just for you from any phone and record their messages after the tone.
We run each message through a filter to reduce background noise from your event and to even out the volume of each recording, helping make your guests’ messages more clear and easy to hear. We also remove long pauses at the beginning of your messages, and hang up noises at the end, to help them sound their best.
That being said, our audio engineers are ultimately limited by the source quality of the recordings and the nature of analog telephone technology. The quality of your recordings may depend on a variety of factors outside our control, including overall noise levels, the speaking voice and volume of the guest leaving the message, and the proximity of the handset to the guest’s mouth.
Although guests have had an amazing time with FêteFone in a variety of recording conditions, to ensure the highest quality recordings, we recommend placing your FêteFone away from bands or other loud music, since background noise can only be reduced in recordings, not eliminated, and to ensure that guests don’t feel like they have to shout to share their messages with you.
If you’d like something more than a digital download, we can also press your messages into a real vinyl record that you can play on any record player!
You will receive an email with a link to your messages typically within a few weeks after your FêteFone arrives back at our offices. You can listen to your messages on nearly any computer, tablet, mobile phone, portable music player or other device capable of playing mp3 files.
If you’d like something more than a digital download, we can also press your messages into a real vinyl record that you can play on any record player!
If you’d like something more than a digital download, we can also press your messages into a real vinyl record that you can play on any record player!
Because FêteFone was designed by event planners, we understand that there are a lot of elements that go into making a special event unique, fun, personal and engaging for your guests. Our highest goal is to make the entire FêteFone experience easy, simple and fun for you so that you can get on with the celebrating.
Orders & Payments
Checkout takes less than five minutes. You will be asked for your event date, shipping address and credit card information.
Your FêteFone will be reserved for your event and charged to your credit card when you place your order. You should receive a confirmation email shortly after your transaction is processed and a separate shipping notification with a tracking number once your FêteFone has shipped.
All rentals include FREE round-trip shipping anywhere within the continental United States. Your FêteFone will be scheduled to arrive at least two days before your event date (e.g., by Thursday for a Saturday event). A pre-paid return shipping label will also be included with your order.
After your event, simply pack your FêteFone in the box it arrived in and affix the pre-paid return shipping label that was included with your order over the old shipping label. Then, drop the package off at the shipping provider specified on the return shipping label within two business days after your celebration.
If you need a longer rental period, just contact us before placing your order, and we’ll be happy to accommodate.
Once we receive your return, your messages are assembled into a digital download that you can listen to for years to come. The download contains an mp3 file with all of your messages assembled together, as well as separate files with each individual recording. You will receive an email with a link to your messages typically within a month after your FêteFone arrives back at our offices.
If you need a FêteFone for an event that’s taking place within 10 days, simply contact us before placing your order so we can confirm the particular style of FêteFone is available.
In rare circumstances (e.g., if your FêteFone style is damaged at a prior event and we can’t secure a replacement in time), it’s possible that the particular style of FêteFone you ordered may become unavailable. In that unlikely event, we will contact you as soon as possible to substitute a similar FêteFone (with a courtesy credit) or cancel and refund your order entirely, whichever you prefer.
You can order as many different styles of FêteFone as you’d like using our online system. Just add the different styles to your shopping cart before completing your order.
If you’d like to order more than one FêteFone in a single style, simply contact us to place your order so we can verify availability for your event date and process your order directly.
In the meantime, we offer a virtual FêteFone experience that’s available anywhere around the world.
Sales tax is not charged on any order, with two exceptions—we are required to charge a 6% sales tax on orders of our Virtual FêteFone Experience and on any order shipped to Maryland.
If you are a Maryland non-profit or other organization with a valid sales tax exemption, please contact us before placing your order.
Shipping & Returns
Unfortunately, we cannot ship FêteFone outside the United States at this time. If this is something you’d like to see us do in the future, please contact us.
Wherever possible, we recommend shipping to a secure shipping address where a responsible individual can physically receive your package from our shipping partners upon delivery. While we do not require a signature at the time of delivery, we always want to make sure that the address you provide doesn’t introduce undue delays. If you need to provide something other than a secure shipping address, you are welcome to do so at your own risk.
We also always try and ship early if we can. For that reason, we do not recommend shipping your FêteFone to vacation rentals or other similar accommodations if your FêteFone might arrive before you do.
Your FêteFone will be scheduled to arrive at least two days before your event date (e.g., by Thursday for a Saturday event), but we always try to ship early when we can. We monitor each shipment carefully to ensure it is delivered to you in plenty of time for your event.
If you need a longer rental period, just contact us before placing your order and we’ll be happy to accommodate.
Our online system allows you to place an order as little as 10 days before your event date. This window gives us sufficient time to ensure that your FêteFone is in stock and ready for you and your guests.
If you need a FêteFone for an event that’s taking place within 10 days, simply contact us before placing your order so we can make sure the particular style of FêteFone is available for your event date.
Rush orders placed before 12 noon eastern time can typically be sent the same day. Rush shipping may incur a surcharge.
You can place an order for use in Canada through our subsidiary, FeteFone Canada ULC, by visiting fetefone.ca. Unfortunately, we cannot ship FêteFone outside the United States and Canada at this time. If this is something you’d like to see us do in the future, please contact us.
In the meantime, we offer a virtual FêteFone experience that’s available anywhere around the world.
After your event, simply pack your FêteFone in the box it arrived in and affix the pre-paid return shipping label that was included with your order over the old shipping label. Then, drop the package off at the shipping provider specified on the return shipping label within two business days after your celebration.
If you need a longer rental period, just contact us before placing your order, and we’ll be happy to accommodate.
If you need a longer rental period, just contact us before placing your order, and we’ll be happy to accommodate.
We pride ourselves on having flexible policies that make FêteFone easy for you. If you are unable to ship your FêteFone back to us within two business days after your event for whatever reason, just contact us before your return is due and we will do our best to extend your rental.
No, we do not charge late fees, so long as you contact us before your return is due and get it back to us within a reasonable time after your event that won’t impact other customers’ orders.
If you do not contact us ahead of time, if your late return would impact other customers’ orders, or if you can’t return it to the shipping provider specified on your return shipping label within five business days after your event, however, we reserve the right to charge a $50 late fee plus an additional $99 for each week until your FêteFone is returned to the shipping carrier.
Policies
We pride ourselves on having flexible policies that make FêteFone easy for you. If you are unable to ship your FêteFone back to us within two business days after your event for whatever reason, just contact us before your return is due and we will do our best to extend your rental.
If you do not contact us ahead of time or you can’t return it to the shipping provider specified on your return shipping label within five business days after your event, however, we reserve the right to charge a $50 late fee plus an additional $99 for each week until your FêteFone is returned to the shipping carrier.
The FêteFone is comprised of an FCC-authorized system with exclusively FCC-authorized peripherals or certain subassemblies that don’t affect the authorization of the system.
FêteFone is a self-contained system that should not be connected to any public or private telephone system. We are not responsible, and you agree to indemnify and hold us harmless, for any damages or other losses incurred if you connect your FêteFone to any such system, as well as for any other damages or losses caused by the improper use of your FêteFone.
FêteFone is meant for indoor use only and should not be operated near water or any similar fluid. Read the setup instructions in their entirely before using your FêteFone. You should not work with FêteFone during periods of lightening activity. Do not touch any wires at the end of any cables or sockets.
Your responsibility for your FêteFone begins when it is delivered and ends when it is returned to the shipping provider specified on your return shipping label. For this reason, we recommend that you provide a shipping address where an individual can receive the package for delivery so that your FêteFone will not be left unattended. We also suggest you obtain a receipt from the shipping provider when dropping off your return.
We nevertheless reserve the right to charge a fee of up to $500 for any FêteFone that is stolen, lost, damaged, destroyed or altered in any way, other than normal wear and tear. Normal wear and tear includes minor scratches and marks or other similar minor damage.
Your responsibility for your FêteFone begins when it is delivered and ends when it is returned to the shipping provider specified on the return shipping label. For this reason, we recommend that you provide a shipping address where an individual can receive the package for delivery so that your FêteFone will not be left unattended. We also suggest you obtain a receipt from the shipping provider when making your return.
Setup & Requirements
- a telephone you’ve selected to coordinate with your event décor, and
- the FêteFone hub, which handles the recording of your guests’ messages.
The system is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
The only thing you need is a place to leave it at your event that’s within about 5 feet of a standard power outlet or extension cord.
To set up a FêteFone, just:
- plug the phone into the hub and plug the hub into a power outlet,
- pick up the handset and follow the prompts to pre-record a greeting to your guests, and
- press a simple key combination to activate the system and allow guests to begin recording their messages.
The setup process takes less than five minutes, and detailed step-by-step instructions are included with every FêteFone rental.
The FêteFone also provides clear voice prompts to guide you through every step of the setup process.
You can set up your FêteFone, record your greeting and activate the system to allow guests to begin recording their messages as soon as your FêteFone arrives at your door. Then, just plug your FêteFone into a power outlet or extension cord at your event, and it will be ready to go in minutes.
For single unit rentals, we unfortunately aren’t able to pre-load your greeting onto your FêteFone at this time. If this is something you’d like to see us do in the future, please contact us.
You can, however, record your greeting well before your event. You can set up your FêteFone, record your greeting and activate the system to allow guests to begin recording their messages as soon as your FêteFone arrives at your door. Then, just plug your FêteFone into a power outlet or extension cord at your event and it will be ready to go in minutes.
If you change your mind, you can go back and create a new greeting at any time, even after you’ve activated the system to allow guests to begin recording their messages.
Detailed step-by-step instructions are included with every FêteFone rental.
The FêteFone also provides clear voice prompts to guide you through every step of the process.
If you’d like to try recording a test message that won’t be included in the messages we assemble and send back to you after your event, leave your message after the tone but press *555 to cancel the recording before you hang up.
We suggest putting your FêteFone in a prominent place where your guests might otherwise congregate that’s away from bands, loud music or other significant background noise.
Consider putting your FêteFone on your escort card table or on your gift table in an entry hall adjoining your event space, or on a small table near the line for the restrooms (where guests might be looking for something to do while they wait). All of these locations tend to be great spots that are very noticeable to your guests but far enough away from the loudest parts of your event.
While we run each message through filters to help reduce background noise and to even out the volume of each recording, our audio engineers are ultimately limited by the source quality of the recordings and the nature of analog telephone technology. The quality of your recordings is dependent on a variety of conditions outside our control, including background noise levels, the speaking voice and volume of the guest leaving the message, and the proximity of the handset to the guest’s mouth.
Although guests have had an amazing time with FêteFone in a variety of recording conditions, to ensure the highest quality recordings, we recommend placing your FêteFone away from bands or loud music, since background noise can only be reduced in recordings (not eliminated), and to ensure that guests don’t feel like they have to shout to share their messages with you.
You might also want to include a sign next to your FêteFone in a frame that coordinates with your event décor to explain how to use the FêteFone to your guests. We have sample signage available that you can customize.
To get the most possible messages, you might also want to ask your DJ or band—or an attendant—to let guests know that the phone is there to help capture memories, just like you would with a traditional guestbook.
First, choose the style of FêteFone that best coordinates with the theme or design concept of your special event.
Then, put your FêteFone in a prominent place where your guests might otherwise congregate, including one that might already be decorated for another purpose, but that’s away from bands, loud music or other significant background noise.
Consider putting your FêteFone on your escort card table or on your gift table in an entry hall adjoining your event space, or on a small table near the line for the restrooms (where guests might be looking for something to do while they wait). All of these locations tend to be great spots that are very noticeable to your guests but far enough away from the loudest parts of your event.
You might also want to include a sign next to your FêteFone in a frame that coordinates with your event décor to explain how to use the FêteFone to your guests. We have sample signage available that you can customize.
To get the most possible messages, you might also want to ask your DJ or band—or an attendant—to let guests know that the phone is there to help capture memories, just like you would with a traditional guestbook.
FêteFone is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
FêteFone is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
The only thing you need at your event is a standard power outlet or extension cord that’s within about 5 feet of your FêteFone.
FêteFone is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
The only thing you need at your event is a standard power outlet or extension cord that’s within about 5 feet of your FêteFone.
FêteFone is completely self-contained, requiring no telephone line, cell phone connection, internet or wifi. There are no finicky apps or technical skills required.
The only thing you need at your event is a standard power outlet or extension cord that’s within about 5 feet of your FêteFone.
If there’s a problem with your FêteFone that we can’t help you solve, we will overnight you a replacement or refund your rental fee.
If there’s a problem with your FêteFone that we can’t help you solve, we will overnight you a replacement or refund your rental fee.