How I started my photo booth for children and teen parties

While I was in the process of developing my photo booth business, I noticed there were not many photo booth providers for children’s parties, this made me wonder why because children also love having a photo booth at their party just as much as adults. I also noticed to hire a photo booth can be quite expensive especially for a small children’s party, most parents wouldn't like to spend over £400 just for a photo booth, plus most photo booths have a large booth structure that’s not suitable for every venue and certainly cannot fit in someone’s home.


So I set my self on a mission to create a photo booth service only for children and teens.

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My goals were:

1. It has to be affordable

2. It has to be fun

3. It has to be portable, so the photo booth can be set up in any venue or in your home

4. It has to be very different from what other services provide

To meet my goals I conducted a bit of research and dug deep into my creative mind thinking "hmm how will I do this?" These are the ideas I came up with:

Pop up open air studio set up, portable studio lighting and a backdrop stand that can be used in the home and expanded to be used in any venue

No printing Nearly every photo booth prints photos, unlimited printing drives up the cost of hire, the prints are usually cheap quality and we are now in a digital age where we don’t always need to have our photos printed. Plus I noticed if there are a group of people taking a photo only one person gets the photo. I decided I won't print photos for the following reasons:  It's cheaper to hire my photo booth if I don't print Everyone gets a copy of their photos plus unlimited free downloads  I wanted to edit all my photos up to a professional standard More time spent on taking photos and not printing After the event, I edit all the photos and upload the photos to my gallery (www.sweetphotobooth.smugmug.com) and give the guests (mums) the website address and 24 – 48 hours after the party they will be able to download their photo for free. And everyone gets a copy of the photo and free to print, share, download, whatever they want.

Price
Because I didn't have to invest in printing equipment and constant ink and photo paper supplies, guess what? My prices were able to stay low and affordable.

Last but not least themes 
To me it’s boring having the same back drop and props over and over again so I decided that each photo booth if possible to have a theme and with this theme I would develop a custom backdrop and props.

Superhero theme photo booth, custom made back drop and hand made props. 

That’s it for now; In my next blog post I will go into further detail about this but for now I will leave you with some more photos.

Children's party photo booth 

To find out more about my children's party photo booth click here