This year is truly the beginning of the wedding photo booth phenomenon. Photo booths have been around at local malls for a long time, but in the last year alone, more and more couples are opting to rent a photo booth for their wedding reception.
Along with this newfound popularity, more and more photo booth rental providers have also emerged.
We’ve compiled a list of 5 things to address with your vendor to help you get the best photo booth rental to suit your needs.
1. Downtime Charges.
These can help you save money or end up adding quite a bit to your final bill. Many companies will offer you downtime for a fee, if you want to split your photo booth rental time into separate time slots. For example, if you had a 4-hour wedding photo booth, but wanted it to run from 6-8 p.m. to be discount rate. Other providers may not offer this option and may require you to pay their full hourly rate.
Ask the vendor if you could request a special time for them to come set up the wedding photo booth before the scheduled start time. If you needed to set up your photo booth several hours before your guests arrive, some vendors may charge you for downtime from the time they finish setting up until the start of your photo booth rental.
2. Template designs.
Will you be able to customize the look of the template used for your photo booth photos? Many photo booth vendors may have an in-house graphic designer who will work with you to design the template just the way you like it to suit you and your fiancé’s personality. You can ask them to be as creative as possible or to coordinate the color scheme with the colors of your wedding invitations. Other photo booth companies may not have a graphics specialist, so you may be forced to choose from some really basic templates for your photo booth rental.
Take a look at some of the previous photo booth rentals they’ve done before, and see what other templates have looked like in the past!
3. Guaranteed uptime.
No matter how thorough your photo booth company is, electronics are electronics and sometimes they get finicky 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 time policy that would guarantee a certain percentage of time that your photo booth will function properly during the rental. If there is a problem and the photo booth is down for an extended period of time, you may be refunded a certain amount of your package price.
4. Additional Digital Copies.
It would be useful to ask this in case you would like to have a copy of the photos taken during the photo booth rental. Many photo booth vendors will upload the photos from the night to an online gallery. Ask if you and your guests can download the high-resolution version of the photo and if it would be okay to reprint it or post it to other online sites like Facebook or Twitter.
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