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Welcome to The Portrait Parlour - One of the FIRST dedicated portrait lounges in ESSEX & BEYOND

From 40 to 200 guests, everyone deserves a real portrait of themselves. A portrait with a real photographer, that photo of nan that you'll never otherwise get, and a beautiful high resolution photo for you and your partner edited by the morning....

What's a portrait lounge?

A Portrait lounge simply put is a human photobooth.

The slightly longer version, my name's Aidan, I'm a portrait photographer!

I'll bring an entire pop-up photography studio to your night, featuring professional backdrop, lighting, editing suiteas well as a live review of every image, so everyone can see the magic happen.

Everything in my portable studio is exactly what you'll find in a commercial studio, just portable!

🎞️ What We Offer:

  • Studio-Quality Portraits: Captured by an experienced portrait photographer in a mobile studio.
  • Professional studio portrait session for you and your partner: Transporting you to a photography studio on your big day is something never before thought possible. You'll finish your day with a curated album of beautiful, high-key images like no other.
  • Live On-Site Editor: Watch your photos come to life as our editor perfects them in real-time.
  • Instant Prints: Ditch the wedding favours and have a small note to say you've hired a portrait photographer - they'll go home with the ultimate wedding favour; A high-quality portrait they'll treasure forever
  • Professionally Edited Digital Album: Delivered to your inbox on the night!

Book us for your wedding reception, and give your guests the VIP photo experience they'll never forget.

The Portrait Parlour is a mobile wedding photography studio based in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.

Also offering audio guestbook hire at an incredinly competitive rate!

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Frequently asked questions

Services:

Booth attendant
Digital copies
Instant prints
Photo book

Type:

Open booth

Reviews for The Portrait Parlour

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Uncovered Sent on 24/01/2026
5 out of 5 rating

Perfection in a picture!

Having a photobooth was not something we were sure we wanted when we first started planning our wedding. However, it was super important to us that we capture every single one of our guests in a professional photograph. We wanted pictures with our loved ones, people that are not normally included in the formal wedding photos but were nonetheless still important to us. And more than anything we wanted something we could give back to our guests, photobooths are great fun but they are not a forever photo. The Portrait Parlour provides this service in just the most perfectly effortless way, literally a few clicks! What we have are timeless, black and white photographs of our favourite people radiating with so much love and showing the joy and fun that our wedding was. The first time I saw our online gallery of all our images I cried! Every single one of our guests gushed over how glorious the pictures were from The Portrait Parlour, Aidan captured us perfectly and I shall treasure these photographs forever. Thank you!
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Sarah Sent on 27/10/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Would highly recommend!

Incredible experience! Beautiful family photos, quick turnaround, and very professional. Everybody loves them! Nothing was too much trouble, would highly recommend.
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Tia Sent on 10/10/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Awesome service, awesome guy!

We hired Aiden's audio guests book and I can't recommend him enough! He went above and beyond. He uploaded out greeting message for us, then downloaded all the lovely (and crazy) messages from our guests on to a beautifully presented keepsake USB. It comes in a little wooden box and is so special to us, voices of our friends and family to keep forever. Nothing was too much trouble for Aiden, a true gent and professional!
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Anthony Sent on 29/08/2025
5 out of 5 rating

Highly recommend!

We had Aidan run the photobooth at our wedding, and he was absolutely amazing! From the moment he arrived, he brought such a fun and friendly energy that instantly put everyone at ease. Our guests couldn’t stop raving about how much they enjoyed the experience—Aidan was engaging, enthusiastic, and made sure everyone had a great time.

The printed photos were a huge hit! The quality was fantastic, and it was such a great touch for guests to take home a little memory from the night. Everyone loved flipping through the shots and laughing at the fun moments Aidan captured. He was so professional while still being super approachable and warm—we honestly couldn’t have asked for a better person to be part of our special day.

Highly, highly recommend Aidan if you want your event to be full of smiles, laughter, and amazing keepsakes!
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The Sent on 03/08/2025
5 out of 5 rating

10/10 Personalised service

From the moment we contacted The Portrait Parlour we were impressed by the level of professionalism. We was looking for a service away from the usual photo booth, something our guests could take away with them. The Portrait Parlour offered that. Family/ friends or individual photos, which were frame worthy along with the fun ones. Aiden is so easy going and got along with all our guests as well as our other suppliers on the night. He visited our venue beforehand to get a feel for where he was going, which added to the smooth ride of dealing with TPP.

We also used TPP telephone service. Our guests left us messages with advice, jokes and well wishes. All of which we can look back on and listen back to for many years to come.
10/10 from us and would highly recommend.
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