October 2024 - In The Booth

Vintage Photobooth Hire

Vintage Photobooth Hire

Vintage photobooth hire. It sounds like a great idea…until it’s not! True vintage photobooth hire for events is now almost impossible to find. The reason being is that vintage booths were never designed to service special events. They were designed to be in static locations.

Vintage photobooths were a marvel back in the day. Before the general public were able to afford their own film cameras there were photo booth locations. People of every age would flock to public places to create a photo booth time stamp of that moment in time.

Vintage Photobooth Hire bought into the 21st century!

The processing equipment required to make these booths function was incredible. Not to mention the special developing chemicals required to develop the photo strip – in a super fast 8-10 minutes! All that equipment and chemical is extremely heavy; often in the realms of 400kg.

Now imagine manoeuvring that 400kg box in and out of a vehicle and then in and out of an event space! As recently as the late 2000’s companies were still trying to use passport style photo booths for events. Their locations were extremely limited due to their weight and size. How many event venues do you visit that don’t have steps? Take it from us that there was no easy way to realistically service hundreds of weddings and events each year with that style of booth.

In 2009 In the Booth’s never before seen design entered the marketplace and it’s been a hit ever since! We’ve kept all the important things that make vintage photobooth hire. For example, our booths are and always will be enclosed. Why? It’s just better! After all, how can it be a photo booth without the actual booth? Half the fun of a photo booth is pulling that curtain closed. There’s also plenty of fun to be found in our video guest book feature which is able to record sound in our enclosed environment.

Practical and Accessible

We can get our event-industry focussed design in and out of any venue. We’ve been on boats and on top of mountains (literally). Each piece of equipment we need can be carried by our single operator so we can guarantee we can access your space.

One thing we make no apologies for leaving behind is the nasty chemicals that were required to develop images. With the chemicals we also abandoned the long wait time for photos. Your guests will be enjoying instant prints around every 30 seconds! There’s no waiting for the prints to dry or taking photos with your phone for digital copies. We’ve thought of it all.

Wedding Photo Station Ideas

What is a wedding photo station exactly? A popular DIY option for a guest photo experience at weddings and events is setting up a photo station. The idea is that guests can find the photo station during the event and capture their photo memories. There are a few different ways a photo station can be added to an event. Let’s break them down into a few categories.

Photo Backdrop

A backdrop or photo wall is a popular way of creating a photo station. A backdrop can be created out of fabric, a wire frame with balloons or any other creative options. The sky is the limit! The backdrop forms one half of your guests’ photo experience. Things to think about are how do guests know what to do? Do they take photos with their own phones or with instant cameras? How will you collect copies of the photos afterwards? A backdrop on it’s own may not be enough information to communicate to guests to take photos. You may also need to allow for additional signage to explain what they are meant to do.

Wedding Photo Station 1

Polaroid or Instax Cameras

Polaroid or Instax cameras are popular wedding photo station options. Guests can snap pictures with supplied cameras and film. Items to consider are the cost of the cameras and film which can be quite pricey. You will need more cameras and film than you think. This ensures guests aren’t “looking for the cameras”. Digital copies are not readily available so the bride and groom may not have access to all the photos captured on the night. Additionally, designating a trustyworthy guest to oversee the cameras and film is recommended in case the night gets ‘festive’!

Digital Photo Services

There are a variety of digital photo services available. Guests can receive a link to upload photos to on the night for the couple to view after the wedding. Keep in mind these services do not include the fun of instant prints. It relies on the guests remembering to take photos and upload them to the share service for the experience to be worthwhile. It can be difficult to keep guests engaged in collecting photos for you while they’re busy partying!

In the Booth Guest Cam

Last but not least! Our solution to all these problems and more? Guest Cam! In the Booth developed this world first inclusion almost a decade ago and it’s been hugely popular ever since! Guest Cam makes your guests unofficial photographers for the night while giving them the fun of the instant print experience. Moreover all the digital copies are instantly collected and collated for the couple. We supply them in a gorgeous USB folio after the wedding. Guest Cam is an open, roaming and instant photo experience in one! All our hire packages include Guest Cam at no additional cost.

Gold Coast Wedding for Sam & Annie

GOLD COAST WEDDING VENUE

T’amero Burleigh Wedding

This awesome Gold Coast wedding reception was hosted in the couple’s favourite local pizza joint, T’amero Burleigh! There’s no rules when deciding on catering options for your wedding. Your wedding should be about you and your loved ones. If you’re not the type of couple who goes out for 8 course degustation experiences, why would you have one for your wedding? Also, #pizza! There are so many amazing options for pizza catering for weddings. From food trucks to restaurants and savoury to dessert. Sam and Annie made the perfect choice of their favourite local to celebrate their wedding dinner.

Gold Coast Wedding Photo Booth Hire

A gorgeous woodland ceremony setting was straight out of a fairy-tale for Sam and Annie. The late afternoon sunlight filtered through the trees and onto the soft pine needles at foot. Guests were comfortably seated on vintage style white chairs from the Little White Chair hire service.

The bride and groom headed down to stunning Burleigh for some portraits on the beach. There’s nothing quite like golden hour for a wedding at Burleigh! The glittering vista of Surfer’s Paradise starts to twinkle in the distance as the sun sets over the high rises.

Everyone settled in for a delicious night at T’amero. Guests were gifted with sweet honey jars as their thank you gift. Pine branches and pine cones adorned the tables as a nod to their ceremony setting and the season. Amazing food and drink continued to roll out while guests chatted and In the Booth Gold Coast photo booth’d the night away!

Our lovely couple selected our classic black backdrop and Traditional print style. You can’t go past this combination if you’re looking for a completely classic photo booth experience for your guests!

A note from the Bride…

Gold Coast Wedding

“We said to each other ‘how cool would it be to have everyone we love together in our favourite restaurant enjoying great food and drinks’, and that is exactly what we did! It was so intimate, there was so much love in the room…”

Gold Coast Photobooth Hire

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Planning your own Gold Coast wedding? We’ll help make it even more awesome!

Booth Hire and How We’re Different from the Other Guys…

At In the Booth hire we love events and celebrations of all shapes and sizes. We regularly attend events with our photo booths to celebrate weddings, birthdays, corporate events, school events and everything in between. With so many photo booths available these days we know it’s hard to decide on what to choose. We offer all-inclusive packages for our guests including our exclusive booth features.

With every booth hire service there’s the written and unwritten items! What do we mean by that exactly? It’s the little touches that aren’t listed in a brochure but take your customer experience from standard to “wow”! With over fifteen years in the industry we know what works and what doesn’t. We’ve spent years refining the guest experience to make it simple for guests of all ages to understand. If your ten year old nephew or your eighty year old Grandma can’t figure it out, we don’t do it! We’re not interested in launching the latest and greatest fad if it’s not going to be up to par in the special event environment.

Here’s just a few of the special touches our clients love about In the Booth that can be hard to find elsewhere:

Customer Portal

Our booking system is fully customised to you and your event. Book with In the Booth and our booking office is literally open to you 24-7! Log in any time in the lead up to your event date to make changes or adjustments. View our huge selection of options and customise the booth to suit you and your event. We believe in options – not overwhelm. If you can’t understand the services offered on a company’s website – guess what – your guests won’t understand them either. Our customer portal fully the services and inclusions on offer to you minus the headaches.

All Inclusive Booth Hire

If there’s one thing we know about our customers its that they don’t like hidden extras. Who does?! Our standard booth package includes everything in our inclusions list – crazy huh?! Make sure you chat to any booth hire companies you’re considering about their inclusions. Items such as a guest book are often not included and will cost you extra if you want one. At In the Booth, a guest book is included with all private hire packages. Just read some of our reviews to know why you need one!

Booth Hire that prints – first time and every time

We won’t pull any punches here. At In the Booth we only provide photo booth hire that includes instant prints. What we mean is we don’t offer any services that are digital only. Why? Quite simply it’s because it’s not what the customer (you) and your guests really want. The people spoke a long time ago and they want instant prints! In our digital day and age, instant prints are intrinsically linked to the nostalgia of a vintage photo booth. Almost every digital photo booth service available these days can be duplicated by an app on your phone. Instant prints are the glue that hold the fun of a photo booth together. We have received countless calls from customers who realised too late that the last booth they hired didn’t print. Don’t get caught out! Read the description and fine print in detail.

Enclosed Booth Hire for the win

We’ve never shied away from the fact that we’ve remained tight to our vintage photo booth roots. Our booths are all identical and fully enclosed and we’re not afraid to say “because it’s better!”. After all, what’s a booth without….the booth? Our enclosed booths encourage more introverted guests to have fun on their own terms. Photo booths are made for special moments and sometimes you just don’t want those moments to be in front of everyone. Last but not least, we record video WITH sound. You’ll notice a lot of booth hire companies talking about video but you’ll find they are fast-fun style experiences (they have a time and place – hey we do gif and slo-mo too!). The difference being is that the majority of other booth styles can’t record sound the way In the Booth can for our super popular video message feature.

But don’t worry, we can be open too….

We knew the right answer wasn’t an open booth which is why we designed the world-first Guest Cam! Guest Cam turns each of your guests into a roaming photographer at your event. Guests can print unlimited Guest Cams from the booth, all without even leaving their table if they so desire. Capture the fun anywhere around your event or even in front of an extra special backdrop.

Attendants

Chat to your venue if you don’t believe us on this one! Photo booth hire NEEDS an attendant, it’s that simple. Photo booths are a hard working machine and they need someone on hand to restock paper, perform quality checks and deliver those lost prints to guests! Always check with your booth hire supplier that it includes a dedicated attendant for the duration of your hire. Why the emphasis on dedicated? Because too often we receive feedback from customers and our venues regarding “shared” services. This means a company has offered a combined service, usually for a lower price for booking more than once service. Trouble is, there isn’t a single service in the event industry that doesn’t require it’s own dedicated attention. A DJ cannot DJ while he’s at the photo booth and vice versa. They are completely different services and require specialist attention for each.

Digital copies with your guests’ privacy in tact

The vast majority of photo booth hire services require guests to input their phone number or email to receive their digital copies. Not only does this clog up the booth queue, we don’t believe in forcing your guests to hand over their private information in this manner. That’s why we’re app-only! Guests can download our free app and access all their booth content in their own time; either immediately after their booth session or days or months afterwards.

Read those Reviews!

Did you know In the Booth has almost 3,000 reviews across our various platforms? We ask our clients to review us on external websites such as Easy Weddings and ABIA to ensure our reviews are qualified. At In the Booth we do not believe in editing reviews! We love reading our customer reviews in their own words. In contrast, if we receive a review that’s not up to par, it only inspires us to work harder to get things right.

Perth Event Spaces

Western Australia is oozing with events and there’s plenty of Perth event spaces to choose from.  Perth City has many weddings, events and functions venues available for hire for all kinds of celebrations. In the Booth Perth has visited all of the below venues and many more providing photobooth hire in Perth. Here are a few venues to consider when planning your next event:

Assembly Yard

Assembly Yard is located in Fremantle WA and is versatile and is one of our favourite Perth event spaces. The Warehouse at Assembly Yard boasts high ceiling, fresh white walls and polish concrete floors allowing you to turn the space into your dream event venue. Assembly Yard is best known for their lush gardens and stunning views of the sun setting over Fremantle.

Freo Social

Freo.Social is located in Fremantle and is your go to venue for events of all sizes. No matter the occasion Freo Social has spaces to cater for all parties and events. Comparatively Freo Social has 3 event spaces available and can cater for up to 700 guests.

Moore & Moore Café

Moore & Moore Cafe is a heritage listed wedding and events space located in Fremantle Western Australia.  The cafe is rich in history and style offering both their indoors and outdoors spaces for celebrations year round. In contrast Moore & Moore hosts all kinds of events from corporate functions and meetings to birthdays and weddings.

Little Creatures

Little Creatures has fast become one of Australia’s most loved brewing companies. This venue offers their Great Hall event space for guests to use for both private and corporate event hire. Unlike smaller venues, Little Creatures is best known for their ability to host over 900 guests in their Big Shed event space.

The Aviary Perth

The Aviary Perth caters for a wide variety of social gatherings and functions year round for both private and corporate events. Don’t forget to check out their amazing rooftop locations and lounge bar, offering 5 different spaces to host your event. 

La Cholita

La Cholita is a Mexican inspired event space located in Northbridge, Perth. In addition this venue is best known for their modern take on Mexican cuisine and tequila bar offering over 100 tequila selections. La Cholita hosts private and corporate events for up to 160 guests and offers exclusive venue hire for your event. 

Burswood on Swan

Last but certainly not least, Burswood on Swan is Perth ultimate outdoor waterfront dining events venues. They can cater for functions and weddings with up to 700 guests standing or 500 seated on their outdoor lawn.