Birthday
A 30th birthday in Hertfordshire
A milestone thirtieth birthday in a Hertfordshire function room — three hours on the classic booth, a full prop box and a queue that never quite went away.
A thirtieth birthday in a hired function room just outside St Albans — the kind of booking where the booth has to earn its place, because the room is not large and everything in it has to be worth the floor space.
The setup
The white classic booth went in against the far wall, opposite the bar, so the queue formed naturally along a side that was not being used for anything else. Set up ran during the buffet, which meant the booth was live from the moment the music started.
How the evening ran
Three hours on the Bronze package with the full prop box. The chalk boards did the heavy lifting: a running joke started early in the night and by the end there were a dozen prints continuing it. The host’s photographs came back on a USB the following week.
What we would repeat
For a room this size, the compact booths work better than the vehicle setups — there is no point hiring something that has nowhere to stand. If you are working with a similar space, tell us the dimensions and we will tell you honestly what fits.
