How to Find a Reliable Photo Booth Company for Your Wedding

We often receive calls from brides asking to book us days or weeks before their wedding because their photo booth just canceled on them…

We’ve also received messages from other photo booth companies asking for help due to lack of experience or inadequate planning…

And it’s more common in the photo booth industry than you might think.

The challenge with photo booths is that it’s a fairly easy business for people to start but it’s a lot more difficult to do it right, which opens the door to many one-man shops and side-hustle photo booth companies who are trying to make a quick buck.

So how do you find a trustworthy, reputable photo booth company? Some of these seem obvious, but we’ll expound on the importance of each:

• Number of reviews
• Quality of reviews
• Years in business
• Ask the right questions

Before we dive into each of these, you’re probably wondering – what makes us credible? In all fairness to other photo booth companies, we’ve also made a handful of mistakes in our very early years, as every company does, but we were fortunate to always have backup plans in place in those scenarios. Fast-forward 2000+ weddings later, we’ve perfected our processes and have seen just about everything that can possibly go wrong outside of our control, and have plans in place for all those scenarios.

Here’s where we stand out today:

• We’ve been booked for 2000+ events and never missed one. 
• We’ve been trusted by brands like Coca Cola, Dolce & Gabbana, Ritz Carlton, Bank of America, Walmart, and more.
• We have backups of all our equipment on-site
• We have managers on-call and in the field to assist with anything our team needs
• We carry $2 million in liability insurance and are on the preferred vendor list of over 100 venues, planners, and wedding pros in Florida.

So whether you’re considering us or another photo booth company that fits your style, below we address the ways to ensure you find a trustworthy photo booth company.

Number of reviews

This one is fairly obvious, but sometimes people look past it because they want to justify booking an affordable photo booth. Or they may find a photo booth that looks great but is just starting out and doesn’t have many reviews. The problem is that a lot goes wrong in the first couple years for a photo booth company. No matter how much a new photo booth company plans ahead, many mistakes can’t be foreseen ahead of time, and they only learn from experience. These unexpected issues include things like a venue not having adequate power, printer or paper manufacturing errors, automatic software updates occurring during an event, the flash being triggered by another photographer’s camera, etc. An experienced photo booth company that’s done 500+ events has learned from some of these situations. A photo booth company that’s done 2000+ events has seen almost everything that could possibly go wrong and created systems to avoid these circumstances.

Quality of reviews

Read the variety, tone, and extensiveness of the reviews. Some companies may get a large number of reviews by incentivizing clients to leave them, resulting in very short, generic, one-sentence reviews. Gain an understanding of what makes a specific photo booth stand out based on the reviews from past clients, and ensure it aligns with what you want in a photo booth.

Years in business

We discuss the importance of this in the “Number of reviews” section above. Experience is a key factor in a business that relies a lot on technology and has a lot of moving parts. 

Ask the right questions.

We’ve provided all the right questions to ask a photo booth company to determine if they are credible, experienced, and a good fit for you. Click here to see a list of the best questions to ask a photo booth company.