Back in the year 1888 entrepreneurs Edward Poole and William Pope recognized the human desire to take funny pictures of themselves and their friends to embarrass each other with later, and so they invented the photo booth! The technology caught on, and for decades the photo booth was a popular feature of every tourist trap and county fair, a wonderful personalized souvenir to carry home with you after a day of eating too much cotton candy.

Photo booths are still popular today, even with the competition of selfies taken with a phone, and their place has moved up in the world! No longer relegated to carnivals and boardwalks, every year thousands of happy people enjoy taking funny pictures of themselves and their co-workers in corporate event photo booths, they are the life of the party, surpassed in popularity only by the champagne fountain!

The concept is the same, but the technology has really evolved, now you can add visual effects to your photos, or create 360-degree videos! It’s a great way for your guests to get creative and have a fun souvenir of the occasion! Here are some deeply compelling reasons why you should hire a photo booth for your next big event!

Ice Breaker

Say you are the host of an event and your guests are a bit shy, maybe they don’t know each other, or haven’t paid enough visits to the champagne fountain to loosen up yet! You need to do something before the snoring starts, and quick! What to do? Start grabbing random guests and tell them “I want a photo of you two together!” Once you have everyone meeting each other and laughing over the photos they took with each other your party will be started, and it will be live! 

Physical Gratification

It’s all well and good to have a bunch of digital pics you snapped with your phone sitting on your hard drive, but after a while, they will be forgotten along with those self-help videos you downloaded but never got around to watching! An event photo booth will give you hard copies of your fun photos right now in real-time that you can share and trade around with your colleagues, a memory you can hold in your hand!

Capture The Moment

Memories may fade over time, but a photo will last a lot longer! Remember when you and your boss were dancing The Smeeze wearing napkin pirate hats? He doesn’t, after all those trips he made to the champagne fountain, but you can keep a copy to show him you have it (and a backup at home) the next time you are asking for a pay raise!

If this sounds like a lot of fun to you, trust us, it is! Getting your guests up out of their chairs, and their shells, with a joyful, creative activity will really make it a night to remember! So, give your next big event a big boost with a photo booth, now everybody do The Smeeze and say “Cheese!”