What is your opinion of photo booths at weddings??

I think they are fun. You may want to look into a DIY photo booth. My nephew and his wife did one of those. They took photos from a camera and had a printer on site that did the photo strips. They also had some props. It's easy enough to NOT do it if you think it's dorky.

ETA: If you search on Pinterest DIY photobooth, there are some ideas.

I think they are awesome! My son was in a wedding and they had a very high end photo booth that everyone loved. The pictures it took were very clear and we ended up using one that was goofy for one of our Christmas card photos. I say go for it!



ETA: I think the groom's mom told me the company gave the couple a photo book with all the pictures as a keepsake.

Ambivalent. I don't care if the bride and groom have one, but I won't be stopping in.

i'd never pop into one - i think the money could be better spent elsewhere

add that expense into the regular photography budget

gina

I love them!!

I think it really depends on your crowd. They've been done so much around here for graduations, I think most people are over them.

My friend's DD had one at her wedding a couple years ago and it was fun. They had a laptop with a webcam set up to take the photos. You would click the space bar and had about 30 seconds to get into position for the first photo, then it would take four photos in quick succession just like a real photo booth. The four small photos were printed on a portable photo printer like a Selphy. I would imagine you could also do it with an iPad and the Photobooth app too, and print wirelessly to a Selphy, like this: YouTube

My friend had a table set up with precut pages, stickers, small diecuts, adhesive, scissors and pens. Everyone chose their favorite photo to stick onto a small scrapbook page and they could write their name and their favorite marriage advice to the couple, and the pages were all compiled into a cute guestbook for the couple.

I keep wanting to do this for one of DD's birthday parties but I always seem to run out of time to pull all the pieces together.

To me, that is a LOT of money.  At the one wedding where this was available, it was part of the photographers package.  He used an assistant to take the pictures & there was a coin token that you gave to the assistant.  My cousin, who was footing the bill & is kinda cheap, paid for this option, which was about $500.00.

What I have learned in planning a wedding is to ask each person who is contributing $$ what their highest priority is.

For my ddil & I, it was the flowers & the chocolate favours, her parents it was the food, for my ds it was the photos.

I helped to pay for the flowers and for the favours.  I made the chocolates.  I used premium chocolate to make the chocolates.  I also have an Accucut machine which I cut the cute boxes for the chocolates.  The combo worked very well.  Her parents & relatives gave the best food.  Her family are farmers and the venue allowed them to provide the food, which was CFIA certified. This was also the 'wedding gift' to the couple from these relatives. We had the best roast beef and chicken breasts.  Her parents had a huge (2 acre) garden which produced most of the fresh vegetables.  The food was so good & fresh (August wedding).The couple paid for the photographer, the venue and incidentals.  

I gave them cash to use however they needed to pay for other things.  I figured if they are mature enough to get married, they are mature enough to budget the money they have. 

Have fun!

they are always really popular here.

I think they are lots of fun!

I don't like them. But I'm not good at goofy stuff.

I'm not a fan. And, I hate the pressure to participate, especially by tipsy/drunk people.

No means No no matter what the situation is.

I have only been to one wedding with a photo booth but I thought it was cute. There were really fun props and my husband I did take some silly and sweet pics. If the couple wants to have one, then why not? Who gives a fuck if it's trendy or dorky or whatever. Everything in the wedding is going to look totally dated in thirty years anyway no matter how "timeless" anyone thinks it is so my philosophy is have what you want at your wedding and tell anyone who doesn't like it they can go pound sand or stay the fuck home. 

I don't just like this answer, I love it!!

My husband and I went to a wedding where there was a photo booth and we thought it was fun. When we were dating we had pictures taken in a photo booth that was in a bar. We had had several drinks and lets just say the photos were um, fun. This was before cell phones. The photo booth at the wedding reminded us of that time.