Lancashire has a wonderful variety of places to celebrate, from historic houses and Ribble Valley wedding venues to Blackpool's famous entertainment spaces, university celebrations in Lancaster and private parties throughout the county.
Our period photo booths bring genuine photographic history into these occasions. Guests discover original equipment, enjoy having photographs taken together and leave with printed keepsakes from the celebration.
Whether you're organising an elegant wedding reception, a lively birthday party or an important company occasion, we can help you choose an experience that feels right for your guests and the setting.
Areas We Cover in Lancashire
We provide photo booth hire throughout Lancashire, including:
We also cover weddings and celebrations around Burnley, Chorley, Clitheroe, Lytham St Annes, Morecambe and throughout Lancashire's surrounding towns and countryside.
If your venue is elsewhere in Lancashire, please tell us where you're celebrating and we'll discuss the arrangements with you.
Discover Our Period Photo Booths
Choosing your photo booth is partly about the photographs, but also about what you want your guests to experience.
Our Vintage Photo Booth is built around an original 1910 camera, accompanied by a converted HMV television and gramophone. The equipment is genuine, and discovering how these pieces work together is part of the entertainment.
For something that initially looks like a beautiful piece of antique furniture, our Grandfather Clock Photo Booth conceals a modern photographic experience inside a genuine Victorian clock. Guests can discover and enjoy it in their own time, without a dedicated booth host needing to remain alongside it throughout the event.
For a celebration with a more playful atmosphere, the Through the Decades Photo Booth takes its inspiration from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
You can also explore our wider Photo Booth Hire range to compare the different experiences.
If you've already chosen your venue, we can help you decide which booth will complement the surroundings and provide the experience you want for your guests.
Historic Lancashire Weddings and Country House Celebrations
Lancashire has some particularly characterful wedding venues where the surroundings can become part of the celebration.
Samlesbury Hall, near Preston, is a striking example. Its historic timber-framed interiors provide a memorable setting for weddings and larger celebrations.
The venue can accommodate wedding breakfasts for up to 150 guests and evening celebrations for up to 250.
For a venue with so much history, the Grandfather Clock can complement the surroundings while providing an entertaining surprise when guests discover what it does.
The Vintage Booth offers another approach, particularly where you want the original photographic equipment to become a more prominent part of the reception.
Of course, Lancashire weddings aren't limited to historic houses. Hotels, contemporary reception spaces and more relaxed venues can all provide wonderful settings for a photo booth.
The important thing is choosing an experience that works with the room and the way your celebration is planned.
Once you've chosen your venue, we can help you consider the available space, access arrangements and where guests will naturally gather.
Birthdays, Anniversaries and Family Celebrations
Not every celebration needs a formal programme or a large venue.
Some of the most enjoyable occasions are milestone birthdays, anniversaries and family gatherings where people have travelled to spend time together.
We've provided our photo booths for celebrations in people's homes as well as established venues.
The experience can be particularly enjoyable when several generations are present. Children encourage grandparents to join them, old friends gather for photographs and family members who rarely appear in pictures together finally have something to take home.
For larger parties, the booth can become a natural gathering point as the evening develops.
For smaller occasions, it gives guests an activity they can enjoy without needing to organise everyone at once.
The important thing is that the photographs become part of the memories of the occasion.
Company Celebrations, Awards Evenings and Staff Parties in Lancashire
A company celebration can have a very different atmosphere from a wedding or private party. There may be presentations to fit around, colleagues meeting outside work for the first time in months or guests arriving from different offices and locations.
A photo booth gives people something sociable to enjoy without adding another organised activity to the programme. It can work during welcome drinks, provide a relaxed break after an awards presentation or come into its own later when dinner has finished and the evening becomes less formal.
For a Christmas party or staff celebration, groups can use the booth in their own time and return later with different colleagues. At an awards evening or client event, the period equipment can provide a distinctive photographic experience while still fitting around the more formal parts of the occasion.
For larger events, we'll consider the expected attendance, timings and how quickly guests may want to use the booth. Our experience includes supplying more than one photographic experience during the same event when the numbers and brief have required it.
Tell us about the venue, approximate guest numbers and how the evening is planned, and we can help you work out what will fit comfortably around the rest of the event.
Lancashire School Leavers, Proms and University Celebrations
The end of school or university is an occasion worth remembering, particularly when friends are preparing to go their separate ways.
Our period photo booths give students the opportunity to take photographs together, with printed keepsakes they can enjoy long after the celebration has finished.
Whether you're planning a sixth-form leavers' celebration at Stonyhurst College, a school prom at Lancaster Royal Grammar School or an event elsewhere in Lancashire, we'd love to hear what you have in mind.
We can help organisers from both independent and state schools choose a suitable booth, taking account of the age group, venue, guest numbers and the timings of the celebration.
For university events, Lancaster University provides a particularly relevant audience for graduation parties, college celebrations, formal dinners and society events.
Graduation celebrations often bring together students, friends and family members who may have travelled considerable distances for the occasion.
Our experience of university events means we understand how important it is to accommodate groups wanting photographs together, particularly when the available time is limited.
Whether you're planning a school leavers' party, graduation celebration or university ball, we can help you choose an experience that fits naturally into the occasion.
Photo Booth Hire in Lancashire
Getting the Arrangements Right for Your Lancashire Venue
Once you've chosen your venue, the next step is working out how the booth will fit into the celebration.
For a country-house wedding, that might involve arranging access before guests arrive and positioning the equipment somewhere it can be enjoyed during the reception.
For a larger hotel or event venue, we may need to work around catering, presentations, other entertainment or particular setup times.
If you're planning a celebration across several rooms, we can also discuss where the booth will be most useful as guests move through the evening.
Please send us your venue, event date and approximate number of guests, together with any access information you already have.
We'll help you consider the practical arrangements before the event so everything is ready when your guests arrive.
Music for Your Lancashire Celebration
If you're planning a wedding or themed party, you might also like to think about how music can help create the atmosphere at different stages of the occasion.
For welcome drinks or an earlier reception, our Vintage Gramophone DJ Hire can provide music played from original shellac records, particularly suited to celebrations where genuine period character is part of the setting.
Later, the music can take a completely different direction.
For a birthday, company party or evening reception, our 1980s DJ Hire is one possibility if that's the music you and your guests enjoy.
Of course, you may prefer another decade or a broader selection of music. The evening can be planned around your preferences rather than following one historical theme.
And if you've already arranged your entertainment and simply want one of our photo booths, that's absolutely fine too.