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Caricature Photo Booth Experience

AI caricatures for weddings, parties, corporate events and brand activations — Surrey, London and UK-wide

  • Runs on Standard SFB hardware — Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage, Digital, Inflatable, Party Booth, Selfie Ring, Ring Roamer, Kids Selfie Pod or Selfie Post Box
  • Styles Exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, watercolour — guest picks at the booth
  • Output Instant print on the spot plus digital copy shared via QR, email, SMS or AirDrop
  • Space Required ~1.5m × 2m — booth footprint plus pose area in front
  • Personalised AI caricature per guest — generated from their photo and printed in seconds
  • Four styles picked live at the booth — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, watercolour
  • Solo or couple caricatures — two guests can pose together in one frame
  • Instant prints + digital sharing (QR, email, SMS, AirDrop)
  • No queue for a single artist — every guest gets a caricature, as many times as they like

Guests step up to the booth, pose for the camera, and pick a caricature style on the touchscreen — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil sketch or watercolour. The AI transforms their photo into a finished caricature in seconds. A printed copy lands on the spot, digital copies share straight to phones via QR, email, SMS or AirDrop, and the whole event uploads to a branded online gallery delivered to the host afterwards.

A caricature is the one photo-booth keepsake people actually keep — it's a piece of art of them, not just another selfie. And because the artist is AI, there's no hour-long queue behind a single sketch artist: every guest gets their own caricature, in their choice of style, in seconds. Guests compare styles, come back for another go, and share the results straight to their feeds.

The Caricature Experience runs as a software experience on top of standard Surrey FaceBooth hardware — pair it with the Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth or any of the other supported pods at quote stage. We deliver, set up, test and pack down; hires run attended or unattended, your choice at booking, and there's always a team member in the area for the duration of every hire.

  • Setup takes 30–60 minutes
  • We arrive 30–60 minutes before your event start time
  • Attended or unattended — your choice at booking
  • Indoor, or covered outdoor on a solid level surface
  • We cover Surrey, London, Kent and the rest of the UK

Our Happy Photo Booth Clients Say It Best!

  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Jul '26

    Would 100% recommend! Everything we needed was there and ready for all our guests to use, was a really smooth delivery and collection, thank you for adding something special to our amazing wedding 🙂

    Lisa Alexander
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Jul '26

    Great Photo Booth. Guests loved the space and novelty

    Monique Howie
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Jun '26

    Amazing service from start to finish. Jamie at Surrey Photo Booth was extremely helpful in organising a selfie pod for my recent big Birthday party. He was responsive, set up and Collected on time and was generally very helpful in accommodating a last minute request. Thank you so much. Very grateful and I’d definitely recommend Surrey Facebooth!

    Rebecca & David Hare
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️Jun '26

    Surrey FaceBooth were amazing at our Leavers Party. The children and adults loved dressing up and having instant photos to keep as memories, as well as being able to view the photos online afterwards. Great addition to any party! Totally recommend!

    Tricia Dumlupinar
  • ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️May '26

    I can honestly say I’ve had nothing but the best customer experience with this company! Surrey FaceBooth have catered to my needs and preferences when I have hired their booths, they have many options all are fantastic👏 also the website is super easy to use. I recommend them 100% I’d like to personally say thank you to Jamie for his service / communication he made sure all the memories from the night was captured. I wouldn’t use any other Photo Booth company!

    Thank you surreyfacebooth 💜

    Jasmine Parsons

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Specifications

Runs on
Standard SFB hardware — Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage, Digital, Inflatable, Party Booth, Selfie Ring, Ring Roamer, Kids Selfie Pod or Selfie Post Box
Styles
Exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, watercolour — guest picks at the booth
Output
Instant print on the spot plus digital copy shared via QR, email, SMS or AirDrop
Space Required
~1.5m × 2m — booth footprint plus pose area in front
Power
1 × standard 13A socket
Setup Time
30–60 minutes
Suitability
Indoor / level surface
Guest Capacity
50–500+ guests over a typical hire

What's Included

  • Personalised AI caricature per guest — generated from their photo and printed in seconds
  • Four styles picked live at the booth — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, watercolour
  • Solo or couple caricatures — two guests can pose together in one frame
  • Instant prints + digital sharing (QR, email, SMS, AirDrop)
  • No queue for a single artist — every guest gets a caricature, as many times as they like
  • Runs on any of our supported booths — Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage, Digital, Inflatable, Party Booth, Selfie Ring, Ring Roamer, Kids Selfie Pod or Selfie Post Box
  • Branded online gallery delivered after the event
  • Event branding, logos and campaign overlays built into every caricature on request
  • Attended or unattended — your choice at booking; team member in the area either way
  • Delivery, setup, and collection included
  • Public liability insurance included

Everything you need for a stress-free experience. Just tell us where and when.

Trusted By Some Of The Top Companies In The UK

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Hilton Hotel
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Maybourne
Merlin Entertainments
Morphe
National Film Awards
NHS England
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Sainsbury's
Shell
Sony Music
Tearfund
Universal Music Group
Vauxhall

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the Caricature Photo Booth Experience?

A software experience that turns each guest's booth photo into a finished caricature. Guests pose for the camera, pick a style on the touchscreen — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil sketch or watercolour — and the AI transforms their photo into a caricature in seconds. A printed caricature lands on the spot, a digital copy shares straight to their phone, and the host gets a branded online gallery of every caricature after the event.

Is it hand-drawn by a real caricaturist?

No — and we're upfront about that. Nothing is drawn on the day: the booth takes a photo, the AI generates the caricature, and it prints on the spot like any photo-booth print. That's the point — a live caricaturist works on one guest at a time at several minutes per portrait, so most of your guests never get one. With the AI caricature booth every guest gets their own printed caricature in seconds, in their choice of four styles, and they can come back for another go all night. If you want a physical robot-drawn sketch as a premium centrepiece instead, look at our Sketch Robot.

Which caricature styles can guests choose?

Four styles are loaded as standard — exaggerated classic caricature (the big-head, small-body look), cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, and watercolour. Guests pick their style at the booth on each visit, so plenty come back to collect the set. We curate the selection with you before the event if you'd rather feature a particular look.

Which booth does the experience run on?

It's a software experience, so you pair it with one of our supported host booths at booking. The full list: Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth, Inflatable Photo Booth, Party Booth, Selfie Ring, Ring Roamer, Kids Selfie Pod and Selfie Post Box. Flag your preferred booth at quote stage — we'll recommend the best fit if you're not sure.

Can couples get a caricature together?

Yes — two guests can pose together and the AI turns them into a single couple caricature in the same frame, in any of the four styles. It's a favourite at weddings: the couple's caricature makes the night's keepsake, and paired-up guests queue together all evening. For bigger groups, ask at quote stage and we'll advise what works best.

Do guests get printed caricatures, digital copies, or both?

Both — a print lands on the spot for each guest to take home, and a digital copy shares straight to their phone via QR code, email, SMS or AirDrop from the booth. After the event the host gets a branded online gallery of every caricature from the night.

How long does each caricature take?

Around 30–60 seconds from photo capture to finished caricature. On attended hires the team member at the booth keeps the queue moving; a full session including pose, style choice and sharing is a couple of minutes per guest. Compare that with a live caricaturist at several minutes per sketch, one guest at a time.

Does the caricature booth need WiFi?

Yes — the AI generation runs on cloud GPUs, so a stable internet connection is required. If venue WiFi is unreliable we bring our own 4G hotspot as backup, included in the hire at no extra cost.

How is this different from the AI Photo Booth Experience?

The AI Photo Booth Experience is a broad library of 100+ AI transformations — superheroes, oil paintings, magazine covers, anime and more. The Caricature Experience is dedicated to one thing: proper caricatures, in four artist-style renderings, built around the classic "walk away with a caricature of yourself" moment. You can run both on the same booth across the night — tell us the mix at booking.

How is this different from the Sketch Robot?

The Sketch Robot is a physical robot arm that draws a real pen-on-paper portrait in front of your guests — a premium centrepiece activation priced accordingly. The Caricature Experience doesn't draw anything: the AI generates the caricature and the booth prints it in seconds, as an add-on to your photo booth hire at a fraction of the price. Big-budget corporate showpiece — Sketch Robot. Every-guest printed caricature on your existing booth — this experience.

Can we add our branding to the caricatures?

Yes — event branding is standard. For corporate events and brand activations we build your logo, campaign colours or slogan into the caricature overlay, so every print and every share carries your brand onto guests' phones and feeds. For weddings and parties we can add names, dates or a monogram. Send artwork at booking and we'll factor it in.

Is the caricature booth suitable for kids?

Yes — all four styles are family-friendly, the touchscreen is simple to use, and kids love seeing themselves as a cartoon. Pair it with the Kids Selfie Pod for family-heavy events and younger guests.

What events does it suit best?

Weddings (caricatures double as favours guests actually keep), milestone birthdays, corporate parties and away-days, brand activations and exhibition stands, Christmas parties, proms, university balls, and any event where a live caricaturist would have been on the wish list but the queue — or the price — ruled one out.

How much does the Caricature Photo Booth Experience cost?

It's an add-on to a photo booth hire rather than a standalone hire, priced per hour on top of your chosen host booth. The total depends on the booth, event type, hire duration and distance from our Surrey base. Use the instant quote builder — drop in your event date, postcode and guest count and we'll come back with a tailored figure in under a minute.

How far in advance should we book?

As early as you can — peak Saturday dates and December corporate-party dates book out furthest ahead. If you want custom branding built into the caricature overlay, allow a couple of weeks of lead time so we can preview and sign it off before the event. Send your date and postcode through the instant quote and we'll confirm availability.

Give every guest the caricature moment — without the queue for a single artist. The Caricature Photo Booth Experience is a software experience that runs on standard Surrey FaceBooth hardware: pair it with the Selfie Pod, Retro Pod, Vintage Photo Booth, Digital Photo Booth or any of our other supported pods, and the AI turns each guest's photo into a finished caricature in seconds — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil sketch or watercolour, their choice at the booth. Every guest walks away with a print in hand and a digital copy on their phone.

We deliver, set up, test and pack down. Hires run attended or unattended — your choice at booking; either way a team member is in the area for the duration of every hire. Indoor, or covered outdoor on a solid level surface. Booked across Surrey, London, Kent and UK-wide.

AI-generated, printed on the spot — and honest about it

Nothing is drawn on the day. The booth takes a photo, the AI generates the caricature, and a printed copy lands in the tray seconds later — exactly like a photo-booth print, except the print is a caricature. We're upfront that no human artist is involved, because that's exactly why it works at event scale: a live caricaturist works on one person at a time, takes several minutes per portrait, and costs several times as much — so at a 150-guest wedding, most guests miss out. The AI caricature booth flips that: every guest gets their own printed caricature, in their choice of style, in seconds, all night long. If your event calls for a physical pen-on-paper showpiece instead, that's our Sketch Robot — and the two make a great pairing at premium corporate events.

What's included as standard

  • Personalised AI caricature per guest, generated from their photo and printed in seconds
  • Four styles picked live at the booth — exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch, watercolour
  • Solo or couple caricatures — two guests can pose together in one frame
  • Instant print on the spot plus digital sharing via QR code, email, SMS and AirDrop
  • Unlimited visits — guests can come back and collect all four styles
  • Event branding, logos or a wedding monogram built into the caricature overlay on request
  • Branded online gallery delivered after the event
  • Attended OR unattended hires (your choice at booking) — team member in the area either way
  • Public liability insurance and full delivery / setup / collection

Four caricature styles, picked at the booth

  • Exaggerated classic caricature — the traditional big-head, small-body seaside-artist look, dialled up for laughs
  • Cartoon — a clean animated-style rendering that flatters as much as it entertains
  • Pencil / ink sketch — hand-sketched line-art look, the most "gallery wall" of the four
  • Watercolour — a soft painted portrait style that works beautifully for weddings

Guests pick a style on the touchscreen at each visit — plenty come back through the night to collect the set — and couples can pose together for a two-person caricature in the same frame. If you'd rather feature one look (say, watercolour-only for a wedding), we curate the selection with you before the event.

Which booth does the experience run on?

It's a software experience, so it pairs with whichever Surrey FaceBooth host booth suits your event venue and aesthetic. You pick the host booth at booking — the experience layers on top:

  • Selfie Pod — compact open-style pod, the default pairing for most events
  • Retro Pod — themed pod for weddings and parties that want a heritage look
  • Vintage Photo Booth — traditional photo-booth shell with a classic feel
  • Digital Photo Booth — modern digital booth for weddings, parties and corporate events
  • Inflatable Photo Booth — inflatable enclosure that makes a feature of the booth itself
  • Party Booth — high-throughput party-styled booth for big-guest-count events
  • Selfie Ring — ring-light booth, good for hen parties, beauty events and brand activations
  • Ring Roamer — roaming ring booth that brings the caricatures to your guests
  • Kids Selfie Pod — tilting-mount Selfie Pod for family-friendly events with younger guests
  • Selfie Post Box — themed post-box booth for weddings, parties and corporate events

Tell us your venue and the look you're after at quote stage — we'll recommend the host booth that suits the brief.

How a Caricature session actually runs

  1. Quote and book — drop your event date, postcode and guest count into the instant quote, confirm with a deposit, and tell us your host booth choice and any branding for the caricature overlay.
  2. On the day, before guests arrive — we turn up 30–60 minutes before your event start time, set up the host booth, load the caricature experience, test the camera and printer, and have everything ready before doors open.
  3. Guests use the booth — step up, pose for the camera, pick a style on the touchscreen, and watch their photo become a caricature in seconds. On attended hires the team member at the booth keeps the queue moving.
  4. Print and share — a print lands on the spot, and guests scan the QR code or share by email / SMS / AirDrop to get the digital copy straight to their phone.
  5. After the event — we pack down and send the host a branded online gallery of every caricature from the night, ready to share with guests.

Where the experience works best

  • Weddings — watercolour and sketch caricatures double as favours guests actually keep; add the couple's names and date to every print
  • Milestone birthdays — the guest of honour in all four styles is the card everyone signs
  • Corporate parties and away-days — a talking point that gets colleagues queueing together, with your logo on every print
  • Brand activations and exhibition stands — every caricature carries your branding onto guests' phones and social feeds
  • Christmas parties — a keepsake that outlasts the party-season photo strip
  • Proms and university balls — a shareable, collectable alternative to the standard booth print
  • Any event that wanted a caricaturist — but couldn't justify the price, or didn't want 90% of guests to miss out

Why guests remember it

A caricature is art of you — that's why live caricaturists have queues at every event they work. This experience keeps the payoff and removes the bottleneck: every guest gets their own printed caricature, in the style they choose, in seconds, and walks away with a print in hand plus a digital copy on their phone. For corporate and brand events every share carries your branding; for weddings the overlay carries your names and date into every guest's keepsake. It's the booth add-on guests talk about on the way home.

Get a quote — drop in your event date, location and guest count, and we'll come back with pricing.

From pose to printed caricature in seconds

Same instant-print workflow as our standard photo booth experiences — guests don't wait. They step up, pose, pick a style on the touchscreen, and the AI-generated caricature lands in the print tray seconds later, with a digital copy shared straight to their phone via QR, email, SMS or AirDrop.

Bride holding a printed cartoon-style AI caricature of herself in her wedding dress, fresh from the photo booth printer
From pose to printed caricature in seconds — every guest walks away with one in hand.

Pick your style — solo or as a couple

Exaggerated classic caricature, cartoon, pencil / ink sketch or watercolour — the guest picks on the touchscreen at each visit, and couples can pose together for a two-person caricature in the same frame. Different style every visit means guests keep coming back to the booth all night.

Hand fanning out three printed AI caricatures from the photo booth — a colour cartoon couple, a black-and-white pencil sketch bride, and a second cartoon-style couple portrait
Solo or as a couple, in the style you choose — plenty of guests come back to collect the set.

Based in Surrey, covering the whole of the UK

Surrey FaceBooth is a family-run team of photo-booth specialists operating from Esher (KT8). We started out covering Surrey weddings and birthdays — and now travel the length of the country for corporate events, brand activations and milestone parties.

We deliver, set up, run, and pack down ourselves — no third-party operators. Public-liability insurance is included on every booking, and every booth is PAT-tested annually.

Regular event areas: Surrey, London, Kent, Sussex, Hampshire, Berkshire, the M25 corridor, and the NEC / ICC for corporate bookings. Other locations on request — just ask.

  • 10+years running
  • 500+events covered
  • UK-widedelivery on request
  • 5★average rating

Get in Touch

Planning a great event is stressful enough without worrying about the entertainment. We handle delivery, setup, the lot — you tell us what you need, we make it happen.

  1. Step 1

    Get a free quote

    Fill in our quick quote form and we'll send you tailored pricing for your event.

  2. Step 2

    Book your date

    Confirm your booking with our friendly team — no pressure, no obligation.

  3. Step 3

    Enjoy your event

    Sit back and relax while we handle delivery, setup and staffing. You're a guest at your own event.