Choosing a vendor for your wedding photo booth rental

Along with this new gained popularity, more and more photo booth rental vendors have sprung up too.

We’ve compiled a list of 5 things you should address with the vendor that will help you get the best photo booth rental to fit your needs.

1. Idle time charges.

These can be either help save you money, or end up adding a bit to your final bill. Many companies will offer you idle time for a fee, if you wish to split your photo booth rental time into separate time slots. For instance, if you had a 4 hour wedding photo booth, but wanted it running from 6 to 8pm, then resume at 10 after dinner until midnight, some vendors will allow you to do this while paying for 2 hours of ‘idle time’ which tends to be discounted rate. Other vendors may not offer this option, and ask you to pay their full hourly rate.

Ask the vendor if you could specially request a time for them to come set up the wedding photo booth before the anticipated start time.  If you needed the photo booth to be set up several hours before your guests arrive, some vendors may charge you for idle time from the time they finish setting up until the start of the photo booth rental.

2. Template designs.

Will you be able to personalize the look of the template used for your photo booth pictures? Many photo booth vendors may have an in-house graphics designer who will work with you to design the template just as you like it to suit you and your fiance’s personalities. You could ask them to get as creative as possible, or to co-ordinate the colour scheme with your wedding colours of invitations. Other photo booth companies may not have a graphics specialist, so you may be forced to choose between some really basic, cookie-cutter templates for your photo booth rental.

Take a look at some of the previous photo booth rentals they have done before, and see how other templates have looked like in the past!

3. Guaranteed up time.

No matter how thorough your photo booth company may be, electronics are electronics and sometimes they get fussy and stop working for no reason.  Most photo booth rental companies will have backup equipment ready in case something happens. They may also have a guarantee up time policy which would guarantee a certain percentage of time that your photo booth will be working properly during the rental. If there is a problem, and the photo booth does not work for an extended period of time, they may refund a certain amount of your package price.

4. Extra digital copies.

This would be useful to ask in case you wanted to have a copy of the photos taken during the photo booth rental. Many photo booth vendors will upload the night’s photos into an online gallery. Ask if you and your guests can download the high resolution version of the photo and if it would be okay for you to re-print or post them in other online sites such as Facebook or Twitter.

5. The design and quality

of the photo booth itself! You may have already attended a previous wedding photo booth event and saw for yourself the vendor’s photo booth in action. If you haven’t, you may want to ask them a few questions about the design, or take a look at the photo booth with your own eyes before putting a deposit down.

The highest quality and most durable booths often will be constructed of light weight, aircraft quality aluminum for the framework. This allows the photo booth to be versatile and light enough to be transported easily to up or down the stairs, through tight hallways. and into your wedding reception venue, It also allows the photo booth to be superior in quality and build. Your wedding reception is going to be a huge party for sure, and you may never really know what goes on inside.

It can get pretty wild in the photo booth. The photo booth must be strong enough to withstand accidental kicks and bumps as people cram in to take their photos.

Other photo booths may be made out of wood, which would not offer the same degree of versatility and durability. It may be more susceptible to damage and the vendor may ask you to pay for those damages, even though it could have been avoided if it was made with a more durable material. They may even have trouble transporting a large wooden photo booth into your venue!