Photo Booth
Activations / Photo Booth
A photo booth that actually makes something. Guests pose or upload a photo, add filters and effects, and walk away with it printed in a custom wood frame, engraved on a coaster or pressed into a button. In minutes.
Most activations end the same way: a free tee that lives in a drawer. A standard photo booth hands people a strip that is in the trash by the end of the night. We kept the fun, instant part and attached it to something people actually keep.
How it works
The booth is a professional photo booth stand with a ring light and an iPad, and the brains are the app we built to run every one of our events. The photo goes straight into it, so there is no exporting, no second vendor and no waiting around for a file.
From there it can go two ways. Printed: filters, effects and your branding, out of a professional photo printer in about eight seconds, square cut by laser and set into a magnetic backed wood frame we customize on site. Engraved: the app traces the photo into clean, high contrast line art and the laser puts a guest's face on a coaster or a bottle a few minutes later.
Pose
Guests step up to a proper photo booth stand with a ring light and an iPad, or upload a photo from their own phone. Solo, with friends, with the dog.
Style
The photo lands in our app, where guests add filters and effects, your frame or your event branding. For engraved pieces the app traces it into clean, engrave ready line art.
Make
A professional photo printer turns it out in about eight seconds. Or the art flows to the laser or the button press. Either way they are holding it minutes later.
Keep
Framed prints, coasters, postcards, bottles, buttons and magnets get used. That is the point. Nobody throws away a thing with their friends in it.
What the photo can become
Framed prints for the keepsake crowd, engraved postcards and coasters for the trade show floor, buttons for the festival. The most fun so far has been anniversary party macarons.
Framed photo prints
The photo prints in about eight seconds on a professional photo printer, a laser square cuts it clean, and it slides into a magnetic backed wood frame we engrave with your branding on site. A real keepsake, not a photo strip.
Postcards and coasters
Cork and wood coasters, greetings from your city postcards with the guest right in the picture. Our most requested output and the fastest.
Bottles, journals and leather
A guest photo engraved on a water bottle, a notebook cover or a leather tag turns a giveaway into a keepsake they carry for years.
Instant photo buttons
Take a photo and turn it into a pinback button or a magnet in real time. Add custom branded backing cards and they become a wearable souvenir.
Edible and odd
We have engraved anniversary party macarons. If the laser can mark it and your guests will love it, it is on the table.
The tech behind the booth
Built into the app that runs every event
Every event gets its own branded ordering app, a production queue for our crew and a live dashboard for the client. The photo booth lives inside it, so the same system that takes the photo also tracks inventory, texts the guest when their piece is ready and shows you the numbers afterward.
Your brand on the screen
Your colors, fonts, frames and icons. The screen belongs to the brand, not to us.
Data capture, if you want it
Ask for an email or an opt in before the photo. Guests trade it happily for something this good.
Every piece counted
Orders, pickups and what ran low, all on a live dashboard during the event and in a report after.
Where it shines
- Trade show booths, where a line of people laughing at their own portraits stops the aisle
- Galas, premieres and VIP lounges, where a framed print beats any gift bag
- Conferences and sales kickoffs, as a keepsake that is actually about the attendee
- Festivals and brand tours, paired with our engraving and heat press stations
- Weddings, anniversaries and holiday parties, from coasters to the occasional macaron
- Retail activations, where the photo goes on the product the customer just bought
It pairs naturally with live laser engraving, since the same crew and lasers run both, and with our heat press stations for buttons and magnets.
Good to know
Is this a regular photo booth?
It starts like one: a proper booth stand with a ring light, an iPad and filters. The difference is what comes out. Instead of a strip, guests get a professional print in a custom wood frame, or their photo engraved on a coaster, bottle or postcard, or pressed into a button or magnet.
How long does each guest take?
A framed print is about eight seconds to print plus a minute to cut and frame. Engraved pieces take under three minutes, which is our rule for everything we do live.
What can the photo go on?
Professional photo prints in magnetic backed wood frames, cork and wood coasters, postcards, water bottles and tumblers, journals, leather tags and wallets, pinback buttons and magnets. We test every material before event day.
Can guests use their own photos?
Yes. They can pose at the booth or upload a photo from their phone, then add filters and effects in the app before it prints or engraves.
Does it work with a logo or event artwork too?
Yes. Brands choose the filters, frames, fonts and icons guests can pick from, your logo or event art can sit on every print, and the wood frames are engraved with your branding on site.
How much space and power does it need?
A compact station runs in as little as 50 square feet with a standard outlet. It pairs well with our engraving, embroidery and screen printing activations.
Do you travel?
We keep crews and equipment hubs in every major US city, so there are no travel fees, hotel line items or equipment shipping charges on your quote.
Put your guests in the picture
Tell us your dates, your city and roughly how many guests you expect. You get a real, all in quote within one business day. No travel fees, no hotel line items.
Not sure which piece fits your crowd? Ask. We have engraved most things at this point.