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I really want a photobooth, but I don't think it meshes with both my NUMBER of guests and the kind of guests I am inviting. If you have a lot of guests who you think will use it with 80 people invited.. I'd say go for it - you know your family and friends better than us. I think around 75 is the minimum amount of people I'd want to invite before considering a photobooth.
We are looking at the fauxtobooth. We'll be having 120 guests, about 80 of which will be out of state (110 will be from at least 2 hours away) so we love the idea of a picture favor too. Wedding bee has great diy fauxtobooth ideas so it might be great to look into!
I agree with Gilneas. We have 130 coming (plus a lot of kids) and are renting one ebcause our family and friends will LOVE it. We might have to pry them out, honestly. Id go with quality versus quantity. You could always go the fauxto booth option and just set one up with an auto printer (Kodak, etc, or polaroid if you can find the film)
We are having a small wedding, 65-85, and we decided to do one based on the idea that all of our friends will love it. We are having it made into our guestbook and I think it will be way better than favors that will end up in the trash.
However, in our area the photobooth rentals are way cheaper. The faux booths sound like a great option for you. It would probably even be worth paying someone to serve as an attendant to make sure everyone knows what to do and to keep it organized. I don't think I could have done it for $1800.
We had about 100 guests at our wedding and we had to say the Photobooth was used by everyone. If you really want one I'm sure your guests would use it and I have to say we had repeat offenders!
We are deciding whether to get one or not. I just blogged about it actually http://crosscountrywed.blogspot.com/2009/08/photo-follow-up.html
I think 1800 is a wee bit high. The first quote I got was 1400 but then they just went under new ownership so its at 1200 with a 10% off booking fee this fall. So down to like $1080. I found other cities (larger ones) were down to like 800 or 600. Have you reached out for an estimate or are you just guessing on the price?
Yes, that number's from a third party, not the vendor. But, sadly, we will probably have transport fees, and NoCal has a way of ripping you off (!). Our guests will hopefully get a kick out of it, and I hope there will be tons of "repeat offenders" for unlimited photos. But, I'm all or nothing, it'll be a snazzy photobooth, or we'll skip it altogether. Just wanted to see what size crowds have used a photobooth...Thanks!!!
We have a smilebooth, ( http://www.ourblogoflove.com/index.cfm?catID=29 ). It's a part of our photography package, but a la carte it is 1200$. It's cool because OLoL also edits all the pictures. We're having between 125-150 guests.
Is your wedding in the LA area? Try Cheesy Photobooths (www.cheesyphotobooths.com) I used them at my wedding and it was more reasonably priced than the $1800 you were quoted and you get double pics for everyone, unlimited for 6 hours! I think the total cost was $1350 and it was so great. We did have alot of repeat offenders but there was never a time there wasnt someone either in the booth or in line waiting to use it!
naangel55, how many guests did you have? the wedding is in the monterey bay area, but i'll check your link to see if they're up north! thanks!
If you have a reasonable camera, you could think of setting up your own and uploading the pictures to a photo sharing website for everyone. Set up the camera on a tripod and get a wireless trigger (mine was about $15), then set it up in front of whatever backdrop you choose and let the guests have fun! maybe include some props, chalkboards, whatever.
Allthough I guess then you dont have the handy photostrips to give out as 'favors' <<
We had 75 guests-- and our photobooth was filled all night!
We bring one to every single wedding, no matter what the size. Some of our smallest weddings have had the craziest photobooths!
So the answer is... we did the photobooth at just over 80 guests and I'm so glad we did! Still don't know how many people used it, but after hearing from the ones who did, they loved it and that's good enough for me!
GOOD! I was going to say before I realized that this was an old thread that the # of guests don't really affect the value of something like a photobooth. :) Gald you liked it!
MrsLadybug, thats a great price. thanks for sharing. I wish that company was in my area. I have priced them out and I cant seem to find any that start at $500. Most of them are around $1000. If anyone knows of any in the new jersey area that are ~$500-700 please let me know. I would really love to have one but I dont think we could pull off $1000. It is nice that they double as favors though.
Also, I noticed many photobooth companies where the photos are printed as a 4x 6 with many pictures as opposed to the strips (like the ones you get on the boardwalk). I was really hoping for the old school strips. Were your guys the 4 x 6 or the ~2 x 8 size paper?
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Hi! We'd love to have a photobooth at the wedding as our favor, but I'm worried that we may not have enough guests to justify the cost. The booth is probably around 1800 or more. The RSVP's are still trickling in for our out-of-towner wedding, so it could go either way. We could have 80 guests, we could have 130 guests. If we have 80, I guess we shouldn't do the photobooth because it will not get enough use, but if we have 130, I'd like to do it. Of course, we'll probably end up somewhere in between. At what number would you cut it off and decide that there's not a quorum to justify renting a photobooth?
Thanks for your thoughts!