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Photo Booth Hire

Five photo booths, six cut-out boards, one backdrop — from a self-running AI booth that generates images from scratch at £595 to a face-in-the-hole board for £75. All of them owned and maintained from our 25,000 sq ft warehouse in Rotherham, branded in-house, delivered on our own vans.

Our Photo Booths

The range

We carry five photo booth types and seven face-in-the-hole board designs from our warehouse in Rotherham, all of it our own stock — bought outright, maintained in-house and set up by our own team. The booths start at £495 for a magic selfie mirror, a classic enclosed curtain booth or a social media selfie pod, and run up to £595 for the AI booth and 360 spinner. The cut-out boards start at £75 each and there's a freestanding backdrop system for pairing with any booth.

You'll see the same sort of kit listed elsewhere as photobooth hire, selfie stations, event photography booths or photo booths for hire — it's the same idea whichever label gets used. The magic mirror is sometimes called a selfie mirror or interactive mirror, the 360 booth a rotating selfie platform or spin cam, the social media pod a selfie kiosk or digital photo booth, and the AI booth an AI Pod or generative photo booth.

We've been hiring out event equipment from Sheffield since 1999, and we own and maintain 95% of what goes out. The booths are no different — we bought them, we store them, we wrap them, we send them out and our team sets them up. There's no third-party supplier between you and the kit when something needs sorting on the day.

Which photo booth for which event

  • AI Photo Booth

    From £595. Photographs a guest then uses generative AI to build an entirely new image from scratch — not a green screen, not a filter. Each image is unique. It runs itself, so there's no attendant to tie up, and it gets through around 40 sessions an hour with QR code downloads and social sharing built in. It comes with 180-plus preset templates or we build custom scenes to your brief — your brand mascot, your products, any setting you describe. The footprint is about 2m by 2m, it runs from a standard 13A socket, and we wrapped one for E.ON and another for Shell at their events. It's the booth that earns its keep at a brand activation, a product launch or an exhibition stand where you want visitors walking away with something they'll post online.

  • 360 Photobooth

    From £595. A motorised camera arm spins around guests on a lit circular platform, capturing around 20 seconds of slow-motion video with your logo and brand colours overlaid on every clip. The spectacle of it — the spinning arm, the LED-lit platform, the queue forming round it — draws people from across a room in a way a static booth doesn't. Same footprint as the AI booth (2m by 2m, standard 13A socket), QR code downloads on the spot, all digital content shared after the event. No per-video cap. We can brand the base panel from £95 or put a magnetic skin on it at £195 that we store and reapply across multiple events. It suits awards ceremonies, corporate parties, freshers fairs and anywhere the video itself becomes part of the night.

  • Magic Selfie Mirror

    From £495. A full-length interactive mirror in an ornate gold frame that talks to guests, guides them through poses with animated graphics on the touchscreen, and prints photos in seconds. The prompts — "Mirror Mirror On The Wall", "Say Cheese!", "Don't Be Shy", "Yes You" — give it a personality that gets people involved rather than standing back. A professional attendant stays with it for the duration, a prop box comes as standard, and it handles up to 200 guests in a session. Same compact footprint (2m by 2m) as the other booths. It's the booth most couples book for their wedding — the gold frame looks the part, the signing screen turns each photo strip into a guest book page, and the whole thing reads as part of the decor rather than a piece of hire kit. We've also sent it to corporate Christmas parties and bar events, and IKEA had one on one of their stands.

  • Classic Enclosed Photo Booth

    From £495. The traditional curtained booth — guests step inside, pull the curtain shut, and the camera gets candid shots without an audience. It's the booth people stop being self-conscious in, which is why the photos tend to be the ones that end up framed rather than deleted. A professional attendant stays with it throughout, a prop box is included and prints are unlimited. The footprint is larger than the other booths — around 12ft by 10ft floor space needed with 7.6ft of headroom above — so it suits a wedding venue, a corporate gala dinner or a Christmas party with the room to spare. It can run outdoors inside one of our inflatable selfie booth marquees. Four hours of hire comes as standard, with extra part-hours at £75 each.

  • Social Media Selfie Pod

    From £495. A slim open-air touchscreen kiosk that takes photos, animated GIFs and boomerangs, lets guests add digital stickers on the screen and shares straight to Instagram, Facebook, X or email. No enclosure and no attendant needed — it fits through a standard doorway and slots into a shell scheme corner, a lobby or beside a hospitality table. Same 2m by 2m footprint as the other compact booths, standard 13A socket, 40 sessions an hour. An optional printer adds £75 for up to 400 8-by-4-inch prints. We've run two of these side by side at Amazon fulfilment centres for Prime Day, with the booths auto-uploading to company social accounts and branded overlays on every image. Backdrop options include a festoon-light wood-plank wall, a green screen for chroma key or a gold sequin shimmer wall, and we can do a custom stretch backdrop at £275 with your artwork.

  • Photo Cut-Out Boards and Backdrops

    Seven face-in-the-hole board designs from £75 each — a circus scene with three face holes at different heights, a Punch and Judy set, two beach-themed collections and seaside postcard characters including Ethel and Ernie and Little Jonny on a donkey. All self-standing on metal frames, no power, no attendant — they run themselves. A freestanding backdrop system with tension-fabric panels in stocked themes (comic-book pop art, gold sequin, Christmas styles, geometric, plain navy or black, green screen) pairs with any booth and folds flat. Custom-printed backdrops with your branding on request. The cut-out boards are popular at Amazon's outdoor events — we've seen them appear in the company's own social feeds more than once.

What a photo booth does at an event

A photo booth earns its place at an event in two ways that a photographer alone can't match. It entertains people on the night — a queue round the 360 platform, a crowd at the magic mirror signing their names on the screen, a group crammed into the classic booth pulling faces behind the curtain. And it sends your branding home with everyone who uses it — a printed photo strip with your logo on it, a slow-motion video with your campaign artwork overlaid, an AI-generated image your guest posts to Instagram with your brand colours in the frame.

At a wedding the booth is the fun table guests drift to between courses — the magic mirror doubles as a guest book because every photo strip can be signed on screen. At a corporate event or awards night the 360 booth and the AI booth pull footfall and give people a reason to stay beyond the speeches and the meal. At an exhibition stand the social media pod and the AI booth capture leads while guests walk away with a free branded image they'll share online, which extends the reach of your stand into the feeds of everyone who stops by.

All five booths run from a standard 13A socket and all of them are chosen because they fit through a standard doorway — we've set them up at NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central and Olympia London as well as at wedding venues, corporate function rooms and university campuses across the country.

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Gold-framed magic selfie mirror with LED-lit border, DB Entertainment branding and festive decor reflected in the glass

What's included

  • Delivery, setup and collection

    Delivered in our own vehicles by our own team. Every booth is set up, tested and ready before your guests arrive, collected afterwards — no third-party courier and no subcontractor.

  • Professional attendant

    The magic mirror and classic enclosed booth include a trained attendant for the full hire period. The AI booth and social media pod run themselves. The 360 booth has an attendant as an optional extra — most clients have one because the video quality benefits from someone directing the action.

  • In-house branding

    Branded print templates, video overlays, screen graphics and digital stickers, handled by our own team. Booth wraps and magnetic skins printed and applied in-house, removed after the event. Front panel branding from £95, front-and-back £135, a reusable magnetic skin at £195 and a custom stretch backdrop from £275.

  • Instant sharing

    Guests get photos, GIFs and videos direct to their phone via QR code, text, email or AirDrop. The social media pod auto-uploads to your company's Instagram, Facebook and X accounts. Every booth sends a full digital gallery to the organiser within 14 days.

  • £5M public liability insurance

    Full £5 million public liability insurance as standard, with indemnity to principal cover when our staff are supplied. Risk assessments and method statements emailed to you or your venue before the event.

  • Props and backdrops

    A prop box comes with the magic mirror and classic booth as standard. Sequin, vinyl and custom-printed backdrops available for any booth. Green screen chroma key backdrop for the social media pod. Upgrade options across the range.

Photo booth types in stock
5
Price range
£75—595
Years trading since 1999
25+
Equipment owned in-house
95%
Public liability insurance
£5M
Google reviews, 5/5 rating
209+

Branding a booth for corporate activation

A branded photo booth reads as part of the campaign, not a piece of hire kit parked in the corner. The booth draws the crowd and your branding is on everything they take away — the print, the video, the AI image, the GIF they post to their story.

We do all of it in-house — artwork, print, application and removal. A front panel wrap starts at £95 (plus VAT), front and back £135, a magnetic skin for the 360 booth at £195 (we store it and reapply for repeat events at no extra charge), a custom-printed stretch backdrop from £275 (yours to keep afterwards), and branded photo prints and video overlays are included at no extra cost with seven days' notice. The AI booth's custom scenes are built to your brief — your brand's colours, your product, your mascot, any setting that fits the campaign.

We've run branded social media pods at Amazon fulfilment centres for Prime Day with the booths auto-posting to company accounts, wrapped an AI booth for E.ON and another for Shell, and branded the magic mirror housing for corporate Christmas events. Most booth branding requests are a variation on something we've done before — the only bit that changes is the artwork, and our design team handles that from your brand guidelines.

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Social media selfie pod with Amazon branding, blue touchscreen showing 'TOUCH TO START' and social media icons

The booths

  • 360 photobooth platform with LED-lit ring, roped stanchions and custom lighting at an event venue

  • AI Pod photo booth with futuristic blue graphic wrap, touch-to-start interface and pink LED edge lighting

  • Magic selfie mirror in ornate gold frame with illuminated border and touchscreen signing display

  • Classic enclosed curtained photo booth with vertical lettering, in use at a wedding reception

  • Social media selfie pod with Amazon branding and handprint banner at a fulfilment centre event

  • Circus-themed photo cut-out board with three face holes — ringmaster, aerial artist and toy soldier

  • Freestanding tension-fabric backdrop panel system, custom-printable for brand activations

Photo cut-out boards for lighter-touch events

The cut-out boards are the self-service end of the range — seven designs, from £75 each, all free-standing on metal frames with no power needed and no attendant. They work at summer fetes, school fun days, charity fundraisers and corporate family events where you want something visual that runs itself.

The circus board has three face holes at different heights — ringmaster for an adult, aerial artist for someone in the middle, toy soldier for a child. The Ethel and Ernie board is a painted seaside postcard scene with two holes, made from 5mm PVC foam on an aluminium frame, fire-rated and UV-resistant. The Little Jonny board puts one person on a donkey at the beach. The two beach-themed sets and the Punch and Judy board round out the collection.

All of them can be branded — we've done custom artwork and logos for corporate activations — and there's a purchase option if the board is going into longer-term use. The boards were originally designed by Photo Cutouts UK and the Ethel and Ernie scene is part of a larger collection that includes Skinny Jimmy, Betty and Billy, Fat Mabel and Strong John, but the ones we carry are the ones people actually book.

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Circus photo cut-out board with ringmaster, aerial artist and toy soldier face holes against a red curtain backdrop

The AI booth — how it actually works

The AI booth is the newest addition to the range — we brought it in during 2025 — and it's the one people ask the most questions about, partly because the idea of an AI that generates images sounds like it belongs in a lab rather than on an exhibition stand. So here's what happens: a guest stands in front of the booth, it takes their photo, and then the AI analyses their features — hair, skin tone, expression, clothing — and builds a completely new image from scratch with them in it. Not a filter layered over the original, not a green-screen composite. A new image generated by a diffusion model, the same kind of technology behind the image generators you'll have seen online, tuned for live events so each image takes around ten to thirty seconds to appear.

The scene they land in is whatever you've asked for — your brand's colour palette and world, a movie poster with their face on it, a futuristic cityscape in your campaign colours, your product or mascot alongside them. Each image is unique because the AI introduces enough variation that no two outputs are identical, even from the same person. And once it's on their phone via QR code, it tends to appear on their social feeds with your branding baked into the image — which is the bit that makes it worth the hire fee from a marketing point of view.

The booth runs itself, so there's no operator to tie up. It gets through around 40 sessions an hour, fits in 2m by 2m, and runs from a single 13A socket. If you've got a stand at the NEC, a product launch in Manchester or a brand activation anywhere with footfall, it's the booth that generates the most shareable output per square foot of any of the five.

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AI Pod photo booth with blue graphic wrap showing touch-to-start interface and social media icons

Where we deliver

From our warehouse in Rotherham we're five minutes from the A1, M1 and M18, which puts most of the country within reach without much lead time. We deliver regularly to NEC Birmingham, ExCeL London, Manchester Central, Olympia London, the Yorkshire Event Centre and venues across South and West Yorkshire, Greater Manchester, the East Midlands, the North East and London. Europe-wide delivery is available for larger packages.

The same booths work at a wedding in Sheffield, a freshers fair at Sheffield Hallam Sports Park, a corporate Christmas do in Leeds or a brand activation at an Amazon fulfilment centre. The social media pod has done more miles than most — we've run two side by side at BHX3 and other sites on Prime Day — and the magic mirror has been to everything from barn weddings to IKEA stands.

If you're putting together a wider event — an exhibition games package with branded stand attractions, a carnival-themed setup or a full corporate fun day — we carry over 600 products across 68 categories, so the whole booking goes on one invoice with one point of contact. Staging, PA, generators, branding and catering all come from us too.

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360 photobooth platform with glowing LED ring base and roped VIP area at a bar event venue

Common questions

What's the difference between your five photo booths?

They produce different things for different events. The AI booth generates a new image from scratch — each one unique — and runs itself, so it suits brand activations and exhibitions where you want shareable branded content with no operator. The 360 booth captures slow-motion video on a spinning platform, good for awards nights, parties and anywhere the spectacle of the camera arm spinning round pulls a crowd. The magic mirror is a full-length interactive mirror in a gold frame that talks to guests and prints photos — that's the one couples tend to book for weddings because the frame looks the part and the signing screen turns each strip into a guest book entry. The classic enclosed booth is the traditional curtained unit — private, candid, best when people want to muck about without an audience. The social media pod is a slim open-air touchscreen kiosk for photos, GIFs and boomerangs that shares instantly to Instagram and Facebook — it fits in a shell scheme corner and needs no attendant, so it's the booth that works hardest on an exhibition stand.

How do guests get their photos and videos after the event?

On the night, instantly — the social media pod, AI booth and 360 booth all offer QR code downloads straight to the guest's phone. The magic mirror prints photos in seconds from a slot below the screen. The classic enclosed booth prints too. The social media pod can also auto-upload to your company's Instagram, Facebook and X accounts as photos are taken. After the event, the organiser gets a full digital gallery — all photos, GIFs and video clips — via WeTransfer or Dropbox within 14 days. The classic booth also supplies everything on a memory stick. For the AI booth, guests walk away with an image they'll post, and every image carries your branding in the frame, so you get organic reach from every visitor who shares.

Can you brand the booths with our company logo or wedding details?

Yes — branding is done by our own team, in-house. For photo booths, options include a front panel wrap from £95 plus VAT, front and back at £135, a reusable magnetic skin for the 360 booth at £195, and a custom-printed stretch backdrop from £275 which stays yours afterwards. Branded photo print templates, video overlays and on-screen graphics are included at no extra cost with seven days' notice. The AI booth scenes are built to your brief — your brand colours, your products, your mascot, any setting — and the cost of the scene design is part of the hire. For the magic mirror we can brand the housing on either side at £125 plus VAT. For cut-out boards we can add your logo or custom artwork by request.

How much space and power does a photo booth need?

The AI booth, 360 booth, magic mirror and social media pod all share the same footprint — about 2m by 2m of floor space with 2.1m of headroom above, and they all run from a single standard 13A socket. They fit through a standard doorway, so getting them into a function room or onto a stand isn't a problem. The classic enclosed booth is the larger one — it needs about 12ft by 10ft of floor space and 7.6ft of headroom, so it suits a wedding venue or a function suite with room to spare rather than a tight exhibition stand. The cut-out boards need roughly 2m of clear space in front and nothing else — no power, no operator, self-standing on metal frames with sandbag or T-leg weights. If your venue has no accessible power, we carry our own generators and can handle the distribution.