22 Nov 8 Benefits of Hiring a Full-Service Photo Booth Company for Your Next Event
You’ve decided you want a photo booth at your next event, but you’re torn between hiring a random guy with a basic setup or a full-service photo booth company. At Pic Station, we’re familiar with this dilemma. A professional company often charges more, but you aren’t sure what you’re getting in exchange for spending that extra money. If you’re curious why exactly you should spend a little more, read on here for a whole host of benefits!
1. Experienced Staff
When you choose a professional photo booth company to participate in your event, you’re getting an entire team that’s experienced in every aspect of event planning, operation, and clean-up. We’ve worked with wedding planners and event coordinators before and know exactly what needs to be done in the days leading up to your event.
Our team also has hands-on expertise working a variety of different kinds of events. We have a streamlined setup procedure and we know exactly how to interact with guests to ensure they’re having a great time. A professional company can provide a dedicated attendant to instruct guests on how to use the photo booth, inspire them to create great pictures, and deliver beautiful digital or printed photos.
2. Customizable Experience
It doesn’t matter how zany your ideas are, we can incorporate them into your photo booth experience. Some less experienced operators only have access to one type of backdrop and one style of decor. When you use a professional photo booth company instead, you can make anything happen. At Pic Station, we even offer our services before the event so you can customize your own backdrop on a green screen!
Whether you’re planning a corporate holiday event and you want all your photos to be branded or you’re celebrating a birthday and want to memorialize a favorite location, our graphic design team can make it happen! Our rental packages even allow you to customize the layout of your prints or upgrade to a video or a gif booth!
3. Provide All Accessories & Props
While an inexperienced photo booth company asks that you provide all your own props, a professional company can provide them for you. At Pic Station, we encourage you to bring your own props and customize your backdrops, but we can also order and customize them for you. Our company is all about a full-service experience, so we can ensure you have everything you need as long as you tell us with enough time to prep prior to your event.
In addition to the fun elements of a photo booth, a larger company like ours also provides all the technical accessories you may need. We bring in all the lighting, cameras, cords, and related units for the big day. If you opted for printed photos, we provide our own printer and we can even include an editing team to do onsite touch-ups before printing or sharing your photos.
4. High-Quality Camera & Photos
When you pay premium prices, you get premium services. A professional photo booth company knows just where to place the lights and flash units to ensure all your guests look their best. At Pic Station, all our cameras and accessories are top of the line products that provide the best capture technology, so every photo looks amazing and every printout offers the highest resolution. With better quality photos that you get to keep, a corporate company can use them indefinitely for a variety of marketing and branding purposes without worrying about pixelated images and low-quality prints.
5. Vetted by Others
As you explore your photo booth company options, you’re probably looking at ratings and reviews. One of the cheaper options on your list may be someone you heard about through a friend of a friend and they have no social media presence or online footprint. Are you really going to trust a company with no listed experience or reviews?
With a professional company that has a website, you have a lot more information to help you figure out if they’re the right choice for you. At Pic Station, you can find reviews about us on Google and Yelp, and see some of the other companies we’ve worked with including Netflix, Kaiser, and Adobe!
6. Instant Uploads and Sharing
One of the best things about working with a professional photo booth company is our connectivity to the internet and social media. Our attendants can email you event photos instantly for you to share with the world! You don’t have to worry about sorting through thousands of photos and sending them to friends and family post-event. A professional company will do it for you.
We also offer a completely unique hashtag printer option that allows you to find and print all the photos taken during your event! We monitor all social media activity during your event and any photos tagged with the specific hashtag you’ve chosen can be found and printed instantly!
7. Editing and Curating Included
While it’s not common practice for social photo booth events to have a graphic design team for on-the-spot edits, we provide them for corporate photoshoot days. Not many professional photo booth companies offer this service — let alone a guy working solo with a single backdrop and camera. Pic Station can bring you anything you desire to ensure a comprehensive photo booth experience for any event!
8. Photos From Another Angle
You may be wondering why you should hire a photo booth company if you already have an event photographer. While an event photographer is great at capturing candid moments of your wedding, birthday, or corporate party, a photo booth allows your friends and family to take the wheel for a moment. Let them surprise you with unique moments and discover the creativity they have to offer.
Working with the Pros
It’s always better to work with a professional. Sometimes, the costs are a little higher, but a professional photo booth company especially tends to offer many more services and bonuses than an amateur. Learn more about how Pic Station stands out from the crowd when you reach out to us today.