True color portraits of your favorite people.
Your photographer spends the day on the two of you, as they should. This one is for everybody else — your college friends, your grandmother, the cousins you only see at weddings. All of them, all weekend, as many times as they want.
A reception, running
Reception in full swing with guests cycling through the booth. Real laughter, natural sound, nothing staged and nobody directed.
Must prove: That the booth gets used, repeatedly, by people who are enjoying themselves. A staged frame here undoes the whole page.
Needed for launchYou’ll want this more in twenty years than you do now.
The centrepieces won’t matter. What you’ll come back to is your grandmother’s face, your friends before they moved away, the two people who introduced you standing together. It’s the only thing at your wedding whose entire job is the guest list.
Two people in their eighties
A couple in their eighties taking a portrait together, mid-laugh. Straight out of the booth.
Must prove: The argument the section makes — that this is the thing you come back to in twenty years. No other frame on the site can carry it.
Needed for launchThe people you love are almost never in one room.
A wedding is the one time your family and their family and everyone you’ve been close to occupy the same square footage. It happens about once. Phone snapshots aren’t much to show for it, and neither is the group shot everyone dreads.
Six people, one frame
Six friends piling into a single portrait. Too many people, all of them in focus and all of them lit.
Must prove: That a group works, which is the objection to a portrait booth at a wedding. Also shows the lighting holding across a crowded frame.
Wanted soonGuests take their own portraits, all night, and go home with them.
No attendant hovering, no queue being managed, no shot list. People wander up when they’re ready — usually the third time, after they’ve seen someone else’s.
Four days, not four hours.
This is the part a booth booked by the hour cannot do. It turns up on Thursday and goes home on Sunday, and every day in between it is just there.
- Thursday
It arrives
A case on the doorstep. You open it, stand it up and plug it in before dinner — that is your whole job for the weekend, done on the day nothing else is happening.
- Friday
The welcome party
Your college roommate and somebody’s aunt take a portrait together and neither can explain why. Half the guest list has used it before the wedding has started.
- Saturday
The reception
It runs all night with nobody working it, including the part after your photographer goes home — which is reliably when the best ones happen.
- Sunday
Brunch, then home
One more round of portraits while everyone is hungover and honest. Then it goes back in the case with the label that came in it.
The bits everyone asks about
Who sets it up? I do not want another job.
Not you, in almost every case. Your planner, your DJ, your venue coordinator or the friend who always turns up early — this is ten minutes with one allen key that lives in the case, and it is the kind of thing they are already doing five of. Give them the film we send you before it ships and it is handled without a conversation. If your planner has their hands full and we have a crew in your city, we will come and do it.
Who moves it around on the day?
You, in a few seconds — it is on wheels. Cocktails in one room and dancing in another is the normal case, not a problem, and it is the reason we would rather you had it for days than for hours.
What about a backdrop?
There is not one, and you do not want one. The booth lights the person rather than the wall behind them, so point it at the room — at a wedding that is almost always the dancefloor. We talk placement through with you before it ships.
What if there is no socket nearby?
Say so when you book and we build it for battery — up to ten hours of photos. It is a swap we make here before it ships rather than a switch on the booth, so it has to be decided in advance. That is what makes the middle of the room an option instead of the edge of it.
What to tell everyone else
Three people will ask about it, and none of the answers are complicated.
Your planner
A box arrives before the weekend and goes back after it. Nobody from us is coming, so there is no vendor meal, no load-in slot and no crew on the schedule.
Your venue
Room for the booth and a little space to stand back, and a socket if there is one going — it runs on battery otherwise. If they ask for measurements or a certificate, the venue page has what we have published and a way to get the rest today.
Your photographer
It does not compete with them and it is not pointed at the same thing. They have the day and the two of you; this has the guest list, and it keeps working after they have gone home.
$2,500 for the day. Half that for every day after.
The booth is out of our hands far longer than your wedding either way — prep, shipping out, the weekend, shipping back, turnaround. Day one carries almost all of that cost, so we charge half for every day after it. A three-day weekend comes to twice a single day, not three times.
Shipping is calculated to your address before you pay. Nothing is added later.
Booking the bachelorette too? Book both together and $500 comes off the smaller one — one deposit holds both dates.
Live availability and a live carrier rate. Nothing is held, nothing is charged, and we do not ask who you are to show you this.