We're a booking service, part of Fine Entertainments Ltd, and we book from trusted partners rather than owning booths. Here's a quick run through the types, with a few Oxford venues and practical bits along the way.
Enclosed and open-air booths
An enclosed booth is the traditional one: a curtain, a screen and a seat or two. People get daft once the curtain's shut. It's also tidy in a smaller room, which matters in a city where lots of function rooms are old and not especially big.
Open-air booths are a camera, lights and a backdrop. They take bigger groups, and they look smart against a good panelled wall, of which Oxford has plenty.
Magic mirrors, 360 platforms and GIFs
A magic mirror is a full-length mirror with a camera behind it, often with on-screen prompts and animations. A 360 booth is a platform with a camera arm that spins round the guests for slow-motion video. Both need more floor space, and both usually cost more.
GIF and boomerang booths sit somewhere in between. Short clips, shared to phones, nothing to print.
Where each one works around Oxford
Oxford Town Hall on St Aldate's has 13 spaces for hire, from small rooms up to halls for around 500, so there's a booth to suit most of them. Out at Woodstock, Blenheim Palace has its restored Orangery open for weddings and private events, and it opens onto a terrace above the Italian Garden.
Kirtlington Park, a Grade I listed Palladian house north of the city, is hired out for weddings and private events. A house like that usually suits a smart open-air setup or a mirror better than a big platform.
Commem balls are their own thing. Each college sets its own supplier rules, and the committee will want insurance and PAT certificates in hand long before the night.
Photo booth hire Oxford: getting the van into town
Oxford's zero emission zone covers part of the city centre, and petrol or diesel vehicles pay a daily charge to drive into it during its hours. The councils have also been looking at a wider zone. If your venue is in or near it, the partner plans around it, and any charge goes in the quote rather than appearing on the night.
Loading can be fiddly on the narrow central streets too. Tell us the exact venue and room on the quote form, plus any loading bay or time slot the venue has given you, and we'll run it past the partner before you commit.