Photo Booth Hire at The Leeds Irish Centre
Photo booth hire at The Leeds Irish Centre
Booking photo booth hire at The Leeds Irish Centre means adding a hit of fun to a Leeds venue with more than 50 years of celebrations behind it. Our Selfie Star team has worked here for both a wedding and a birthday party, and it is the kind of place where celebrations go big: lots of family, plenty of dancing and guests who are more than happy to jump in front of a camera.
From a full-scale wedding reception in one of the large suites to a milestone birthday in a smaller room, a photo booth keeps every generation involved. Grandparents, cousins and the friends you have not seen in years all end up with a print to take home, and you end up with a full set to keep.
About The Leeds Irish Centre
The Leeds Irish Centre is on York Road in Leeds LS9, east of the city centre. The centre opened on 20 January 1970, and its stated aim is to give Irish people and anyone interested in Irish culture a place to gather, celebrate and preserve their heritage. Its tagline sums it up: “Preserving Heritage, Building Community.”
Over the decades the building has grown. The centre’s own history notes a 1972 extension and a concert hall added in 1981, built on two levels and divisible into separate rooms. In 1973 it hosted the Indoor League darts programme, described as the first televised competition for darts and pub games, and a Blue Plaque on the building marks the occasion. Its memory wall lists names who have played here over the years, from Rory Gallagher and Christy Moore to Oasis in 1994.
Today the centre hosts weddings, celebrations, parties and functions across several spaces: the Tara Suite, Claddagh Room, Avoca Suite, O’Meara Suite and Davitt Bar. The website lists a stage, PA system, stage lighting and a dance floor, in-house catering kitchens, and a dedicated coordinator present throughout events.
The best booth for The Leeds Irish Centre
A venue with a stage, a dance floor and a history of live music deserves a booth that can keep up with a lively crowd. Here is what we would suggest.
Glam Booth for show-stopping portraits
Our Glam Booth is a Kardashian-style photo booth that turns every guest into a black and white cover star, using a white backdrop and beauty lighting. In a large suite full of colour and movement, those clean monochrome prints stand out. From £650.
Vintage Booth for big family groups
The open design of our solid oak, hand-crafted Vintage Booth means you can fit large groups into one shot, which is perfect for an Irish family wedding where everyone wants to be in the picture. Choose a backdrop to suit your colours. Vintage photo booth hire starts from £625, with a £25 upgrade to the Glam Booth available.
Party Pod or Digital Pod for birthdays
The centre is well inside our Leeds area, so our self-service Party Pod (from £425) is available. It is dropped off during the day and runs all day, with colour and black and white prints. For a more casual do, the Digital Pod sends photos straight to guests’ phones.
Fancy something different? Our staffed AI Photo Booth creates AI avatars, artistic styles, face swaps and AI backgrounds, with instant prints.
What you get with a staffed booth
- Three hours of booth time, plus extra hours at £150 each if the party runs on
- Unlimited photo capture, with prints every time
- A personalised print design, whether it is your wedding monogram or a birthday theme
- A gift box with a full set of prints
- An online gallery to share after the event
- Our Selfie Star pose guide
- A friendly attendant to get everyone involved
- Setup and clear away, with our team arriving an hour before opening
Add Guest Book Management for £39 and your attendant will help guests add a print and a message to your guest book.
Wedding DJ and photo booth in Leeds
The Leeds Irish Centre is a venue made for dancing, and our sister company EventsDJ can supply the music. Combine your booth with a DJ in our Wedding DJ & Photo Booth package and you will save compared with booking separately. Our Evening DJ package runs for five hours, and party DJ packages are £450, a good fit for a big birthday. Cold spark fountains and a sax player can be added for extra wow.
The centre says it can arrange entertainment with DJs and bands it has worked with, so if you would like EventsDJ, mention it to your coordinator early.
Need a DJ too? Our sister company EventsDJ provides wedding and party DJs. See the wedding venues EventsDJ has played.
Planning tips for a photo booth at The Leeds Irish Centre
Pick your suite first. The centre has several rooms of different sizes, so once you know which one you are in, ask your coordinator where the booth can go. Near the dance floor but not blocking it usually works well.
Mind the stage. If you have a band or DJ on stage, we will position the booth so guests can still see and hear the action while they queue.
Plan around the food. If your reception includes an evening buffet, opening the booth before food is served keeps guests busy, and the queue tends to pick up again afterwards.
Personalise it. A shamrock, a county crest or a nod to your family roots on the print design makes a lovely keepsake.
Secure your date. Couples usually book 12 to 24 months ahead. A booking fee secures your date, and the balance is due 14 days before. See how much photo booth hire costs for guidance.
Leeds wedding photo booth hire: nearby venues
Close to the Irish Centre, we have also worked at The Queens Hotel and Malmaison Leeds in the city centre, and on the south side of the river at The Adelphi. Further out, Oulton Hall is another favourite. Explore our photo booth hire Leeds page and full areas covered list.
Leeds Irish Centre photo booth FAQs
Have you worked at The Leeds Irish Centre before?
Yes. Our team has provided booths here for a wedding and a birthday party.
Which room is best for a photo booth?
Any of the suites can work. We will advise once you know your room, and agree the exact spot with the centre’s coordinator.
Can a booth cope with a very busy party?
Yes. Our attendant keeps the queue moving, and with unlimited photo capture, with prints every time, nobody misses out.
Do you do birthday and anniversary parties?
We do. All our booths are available for birthdays, anniversaries, christenings and family celebrations.
When is payment due?
A booking fee secures your date, and the remaining balance is due 14 days before your event.
Celebrating at The Leeds Irish Centre? Request a quote or fill in the form below with your date and the room you have booked, and we will get straight back to you.
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Imagine your wedding with both incredible music AND a luxury photo booth experience all in one seamless package.
Choose your perfect pairing: our award-winning Wedding DJ with either our show-stopping handcrafted Oak Booth (fully staffed and ready to pamper your guests) or our fun-filled Party Pod (self-service freedom, maximum entertainment).
Whichever you choose, you'll get instant prints, a stunning online gallery, and memories that'll have everyone talking long after the last dance. Ready to tick two major boxes off your wedding list in one go?
Amazing evening hosted by Wayne, he was fantastic and the equipment, set up too! He had great choice of music l, kept everyone entertained and the selfie mirror was amazing highly recommend. They are great for any event! Made the night so special 5***** Customer service was amazing really friendly team. Thank you!
we loved our photo booth for our wedding last month. Not only did we hire that from Selfie Star, we hired the DJ, venue uplighting and sparkler fountains. Wayne and Sally was very accommodating for our need after we had to change a few things and move our timeline forward which wasn't too much hassel for them. would 100000% recommend to anyone looking for entertainment for their special event. we also want to wish Wayne and Sally all the best in their business . Mr & Mrs Whelan
selfie star made our wedding!! run by two of the nicest people we have ever met, Wayne and sal went above and beyond for us to make our special day run as smoothly as possible. They even took all the stress away before hand and communicated with the hotel about arranging the room and making sure everything we had hired from them would fit, they contacted the tribute band we had coming to the wedding and made their set up easier by connect up to selfie stars equipment which made our turn around from the day in to the evening party much quicker! The dancefloor, star light back drop and light up shoots completely transformed our room, it looked amazing!! we also had the dancing with clouds and cold spark fire work for our first dance which was also looked amazing! selfie star also hosted our full day and was our DJ Which I believe made the day run so well. They made us feel very special and organised all the special parts of the day to make sure they went as well as they possibly could and really made the special moments count! THe music was brilliant they played a mixture of songs we asked for and then a mixture of songs from 80s 90s and now which was great the dancefloor was full of people all night! highly recommended this company they are fantastic, we also had the table selfie centerpiece aswell which we and all our guests had lots of fun with and captured loads of memories! Thank you Wayne and sal you were fantastic and we can't wait to have another party with selfie star!!!
We hired Selfie Star for the evening of our wedding. It was fantastic, all of our guests enjoyed it very much!
I would like to thank and highly recommend Wayne Baker and Selie Star Events. I got to know Wayne around last Christmas time and remain good friends and business colleagues. I run an entertainment business myself and from time to time we need to depend on other services and djs to help us through busy or sick periods. Wayne has stepped in a many times for us and his work and setup is so professional. Wayne has provided a great service every time we have used him. Our clients have also left some great feedback. Here at MDG Entertainment we thrive on delivering a great product for a great value of money to individual events. It is hard to find in the business people like Wayne who work to our award winning standards. It is a pleasure to be able to use his service and know he will always deliver upon booking him. Many thanks Michael @ MDG Entertainment.
We had the most amazing wedding day and being able to capture such fun photos with SelfieStar was amazing. The photo quality was fantastic and the team on the day were so fun and helpful. I’ve been to many other weddings and this is by far the best photo booth I’ve used - so I’m glad it was ours! Would definitely recommend 😄
I can't express enough how thrilled we were with Selfie Star's photo booth and DJ services at my niece's wedding. The solid oak photo booth added a touch of tradition and elegance to the event, and it was non-stop fun throughout the evening. Sally and Wayne Baker are an incredible duo, engaging guests from both the USA and the UK, creating an unforgettable party atmosphere. Wayne's music kept the dance floor alive, and the audio guest book was a unique and cherished addition. Everyone at the wedding couldn't stop raving about the quality of the venue and the amazing atmosphere created by Selfie Star. Thank you, Sally and Wayne, for making Charlotte and Matthew's wedding an absolute blast. You truly are stars in your own right, and I highly recommend your services to anyone looking to elevate their event experience!
We booked Selfie Star Photo Booth for our wedding and honestly it was one of the best investments we made. We went for the Kardashian filter to match our monochrome wedding theme and it looked incredible — the photos came out so stylish and elevated. Our guests absolutely loved it and were using it all night. The fact guests could have unlimited prints was amazing, and every print strip was personalised with our Mr & Mrs name and wedding date, with 3 photos on each print which looked so professional. Sally also shared a download link afterwards with all of the images, which was such a lovely touch. One of our favourite parts was coming home with a beautiful gift box containing copies of all the prints for us to add into our guest book and keep forever. Sally was fantastic throughout and everything ran so smoothly. We couldn’t recommend Selfie Star enough!
Absolutely amazing! The best Photo Booth I’ve ever hired and the lady who brought it was such a lovely lady, my daughter even got her up for a selfie on the booth! 10/10 will absolutely book again at any given opportunity.
We met Sally and Wayne at a wedding fair and hiring them was the best decision ever ( despite already having a DJ provided within our wedding package at Aldwark Manor) we knew it would be an extra cost but we were willing to do this as we wanted Wayne as our DJ , and he was worth every penny, he made our wedding exactly what we wanted he listened to our preferences and tailored the music to our taste. The guests absolutely loved him. He also helped organise the dance floor which I wanted and provided letters. Sally on the photobooth was equally amazing, guests had such a laugh and kept Sally busy. Definitely a must have at any party. The added bonus of us receiving a copy of every photo taken that night and placed in a box was simply brilliant myself and my husband were able to look through these at our leisure and have a good giggle. So a massive thank you to both Sally & Wayne and if your looking for a top class DJ and photo booth look no further we highly recommend these guys they are the best.
Absolutely made our night having the led dance floor at our wedding. Wayne was fantastic, customer service second to none. Arrived on time, no hassle, looked AMAZING!!😍😍 Would highly recommend Selfie Star Events.
We met Wayne & Sally at a wedding fayre. They were both really lovely and approachable, discussing all of their options & packages. Their communication was excellent & their app is easy to use for updates, info on your package and payments. Having used photobooths before, I can say the tech from Selfie Star was the best quality we’ve seen! We had the ICON! Wayne on the night of our wedding was brilliant, super friendly & arrived in plenty of time for the start of the evening celebrations! He had a great attitude with all of our guests, creating a fab atmosphere and we all certainly had fun! We also added late to our booking an audio guestbook, which was no trouble and brilliant to use! Listening back to the messages has been a real highlight. The turnaround on the online photo gallery & audio messages was amazingly quick too, coming back in just a few days after our wedding! Would highly recommend to anyone for any function! Huge thank you! 5*!
We hired the selfie pod and it was great, everyone loved it and had lots of fun taking photos. Booking was easy and it was dropped off without issue. 😀
Selfie Star were excellent from start to finish - their communication was prompt and clear and set up on the day was extremely smooth and efficient. The Photo Booth itself was an absolute hit and such good fun. Cannot recommend highly enough! Thanks so much for such great service .
Absolutely amazing DJ and photobooth service for our wedding! Communication beforehand was excellent and they made everything so easy and stress-free from start to finish. They arrived punctually, were incredibly professional, and did everything we asked for with no problem at all. The DJ kept the dancefloor full all night and was also a fantastic MC, helping the whole evening run smoothly and keeping the atmosphere lively and fun. The photobooth was such a hit with all our wedding guests too! We couldn’t have asked for better entertainment for our special day and would highly recommend them to anyone planning a wedding or event.
What a cracking experience we had at a wedding yesterday with Selfie Star! Overall a friendly, humorous but professional service! He even let me take the horses head to the dance floor, I mean, what more could you want! Would absolutely recommend to a friend. You thoroughly deserve the top marks in this review!
We had a photobooth at our wedding, this went down really well with our Moulin Rouge themed evening reception. I would recommend without any hesitation great company to work with. Thankyou Tony and Stefan
Booked for our daughters wedding, booking process and communication all excellent Everyone had a great time in the photo booth, good quality pictures
We booked Selfie Star Photobooths after seeing the photobooth in action at a wedding fayre. Booking with them was seamless and everything was so easy to access on the portal. On the day, set up was done with no issues whatsoever and our guests were free to enjoy the fun this brought to our evening. All of our guests commented on how fantastic the photobooth was and how well it was operated. It brought so much fun and energy to the evening and was loved by everyone. The photos were absolutely fantastic, we loved going through the prints and the digital copies of the photos! Absolutely incredible, thank you so much we are forever grateful.
Could not recommend selfie star enough. Our guests absolutely loved the booth and then a week later we got all the photos which was amazing to see. Thank you for everything
