How a mirror booth works
A mirror booth is a full-length interactive mirror with a camera behind the glass and a touchscreen surface. Guests walk up, see themselves, and get animated prompts on the glass — sign your name, tap to start, pick your filter. It shoots stills and GIFs, and the whole thing is built around handing guests a physical print seconds later.
It's a social object in the room. Groups gather around it, people watch each other pose, and the prints end up on fridges and in wedding scrapbooks. Every one of our print booths includes unlimited sessions with prints, so guests can come back three or four times over the night without anyone counting.
How a 360 video booth works
Guests step onto a raised platform and a camera arm sweeps around them while they move. The software slows the footage, adds music and your branding, and sends a vertical video straight to their phone by text, email, or AirDrop within seconds.
The output is video only — that's the design, not a limitation. What you get is content built for how people actually share now, and a booth that becomes a spectacle in the room. There's always a crowd watching the platform, which is a real part of the entertainment value.
Side by side
- Output — mirror: prints, stills, GIFs. 360: shareable vertical video, no prints
- Space — mirror: about 8 x 8 ft, no ceiling requirement. 360: 10 x 10 ft (Express) to 12 x 12 ft (PRO), 9 ft ceiling minimum
- Throughput — mirror: roughly 60 prints per hour. 360: roughly 30 sessions per hour
- Group size — mirror: comfortable for 4 to 6 standing. 360 PRO: 6 to 7 on the platform
- Keepsake — mirror: something in their hand that night. 360: something on their phone forever
- Spectator value — mirror: moderate. 360: high, people gather to watch
- Guest range — mirror: works for all ages including older guests. 360: skews toward guests who want to post
Pick the mirror booth if…
You want guests leaving with something physical, your guest list spans generations, or the booth needs to move a lot of people through in a limited window. Mirror booths are also the easier fit for tight rooms and low ceilings, and the print itself carries your branding into people's homes — which matters for weddings and for corporate events where the overlay is doing marketing work.
Older guests engage with a mirror booth far more readily than with a platform they have to step onto. At a wedding where a meaningful share of the room is over sixty, that difference is visible in the gallery afterward.
Pick the 360 booth if…
You want the booth to be an event in itself, your guests are going to post, or you're running a brand activation where reach matters more than a printed strip. The 360 is the booth people describe to their friends afterward, and the footage keeps working for you long after the night ends.
It's also the stronger choice when your run-time is generous and your guest count is moderate. Thirty sessions an hour is plenty for 120 guests over three hours, but at a 300-person event a 360 booth alone will leave people who never got a turn.
Recommendations by event type
- Weddings — either works, but the combination is the real answer: 360 during cocktail hour when energy is high, print booth through the reception so guests leave with something. If you're picking one, prints tend to win with a mixed-age guest list.
- Corporate events — mirror or open backdrop for branded prints and lead capture; 360 when the goal is social reach and content for the company's channels. Brand activations almost always want the 360.
- Prom and school events — 360, without much debate. It's the booth teenagers line up for and post from before they leave the building.
- Birthdays and Sweet 16s — 360 Express hits the sweet spot on cost and impact. For milestone birthdays with a wide age range, a print booth is friendlier.
- Mitzvahs — both, if the budget allows. The teens use the 360 all night and the adults gravitate to prints.
- Fundraisers and galas — mirror booth, with a branded overlay. Prints in hand keep the cause visible after the event.
Booking both
A large share of our weddings and corporate events run two booths, and bundling costs less than booking them separately. The only real requirement is floor space — you need room for a 10 x 10 or 12 x 12 platform and a separate 8 x 8 print setup, ideally in different parts of the room so they don't compete for the same line.
If you're not sure which combination your venue can hold, send us the room and we'll tell you straight. You can compare both on the mirror photo booth and 360 video booth pages linked below, or check your date and we'll put a quote together.