Five reasons guests love a photo booth

We have watched a lot of rooms from behind a booth. The pattern is consistent enough to write down.

1. They leave holding something

Almost nothing else at an event gives a guest a physical object to take home. A 2x6 strip prints in about ten seconds, it fits in a pocket, and it ends up on a fridge. Months later it is still there, which is more than can be said for the favours.

2. It is something to do that is not talking

Every event has a stretch where people have run out of small talk and the dancing has not started. The booth fills it. It gives people who do not know each other a reason to stand together and do something silly, which is a far lower bar than making conversation.

3. The photos are the unposed ones

A photographer produces the formal record. The booth produces the other one, where four people crammed into a frame and pulled a face. Those are the pictures people actually send to each other afterwards.

4. It works as a group activity

One person in a booth is a bit sad. Five people in a booth is an event. Because the booth is open-air rather than a curtained box, groups get bigger through the night, and that is when the queue becomes part of the fun instead of a wait.

5. They can post it before they sit down

Guests text or email themselves the photo, the GIF and the boomerang from the booth itself. It is online before they are back at their table. For a host that means the event gets shared by the people who were there, which no amount of your own posting matches.

What that means for booking

All five of those depend on the line moving. If the print is slow or there is nobody managing the queue, the booth becomes a thing people walk past. That is the reason every attended Aura package includes an attendant and unlimited prints rather than selling either back to you. What each package costs is on the packages page.