5 ideas to liven up your office party

The real problem with an office party

Everyone knows the scene: accounting on one side of the room, sales on the other, and nobody bridging the gap. The mood does build eventually, but late, and not for everyone. The budget is spent; the goal — bringing the team together — is only half met.

Effective entertainment does one thing: it gives people a reason to gather. Not a performance to watch sitting down, not a game you have to be good at — a meeting point where you end up standing with three or four colleagues without planning to. That's exactly what a photo booth does, and why it works better than a DJ costing twice as much.

1. Make the teams cross paths

Put the booth between the bar and the room, not in a corner. Forced traffic does the work: two people step in, six step out because three colleagues jumped into the frame. Nobody made a formal introduction, and yet the ice is broken.

Props — hats, glasses, signs — speed the effect up. They give the camera-shy something to do and turn the photo into a game rather than a portrait. They're available as an option, on quote.

2. Project the photos live

Carousel mode displays the shots on a large screen as the evening goes on. The effect is immediate: each photo that appears triggers a reaction in the room, and the people who hadn't gone yet head over to see themselves.

It's the best effect-to-cost ratio of the night, especially since carousel mode is included in the base package — all you need is a screen or projector on site. If you don't have one, TV screen rental is one of our options, on quote.

3. Build a mosaic of your logo

At larger events — a holiday party for several hundred people, a launch, a company anniversary — the logo mosaic gradually assembles guest photos until they form the company logo on a big screen.

The point goes beyond the visual: the mosaic creates a collective goal. Tiles are missing, so more people have to go. Participation feeds itself until the end of the night. It's a paid option, priced in your quote.

4. Put the brand inside the souvenir

The custom filter frames each photo in the company's colours: logo, palette, message, date. Our designers build it from your brand guidelines and deliver it within 24h of receiving your files. You approve it before the party.

This detail changes the life of the photo afterwards. A neutral shot stays in the phone; a shot framed in the company's colours circulates on LinkedIn and Instagram, and becomes a window into your culture for candidates. If you're preparing the artwork yourself, our guide on creating your filter covers the format and the rules.

5. Make the night last

Each guest receives their photos, GIFs and Boomerangs on the spot, by email and QR code. Everything is also collected in a private online gallery, available for 1 year after the event: material for the internal newsletter, the office wall or the year-end presentation.

Above all, the video compilation of the best photos is generated automatically. By some distance, it's what our corporate clients bring up most — the file you send the whole team on Monday morning, which stretches the party out another week.

What it costs

For an office party, the standard package starts at $450 CAD, plus taxes, with pickup at our Saint-Lambert or Quebec City offices. On-site printing adds $175 CAD, delivery with setup and pickup adds $175 CAD within a 25 km radius of those two points — that is $800 CAD for the full package.

The booth stays available all weekend, with no hourly package and no security deposit. Full details on options and delivery zones are on our pricing page, and the corporate photo booth page covers the complete service.