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Custom Photo Booth Experiences: Our Off-Menu Menu

By Carlos Lerma

Our packages cover the classics: prints, GIFs, 360 videos, and glam portraits. But like the coffee shop with an off-menu menu, some of our favorite things we make aren’t listed anywhere. Watercolor sketches, keychains, pins, custom props and cutouts, specialty papers, picture frames, and photo holders are all things we’ve built for events. If you can dream it, we can probably do it.

After hundreds of events, we’ve learned that the moments guests talk about longest usually come from something they didn’t expect. Everyone knows what a photo strip is. Nobody expects to walk away from a wedding holding a watercolor portrait of themselves.

Watercolor sketches: the one guests don’t see coming

Guests step into the booth, take a normal photo, and moments later they’re looking at themselves as a hand-styled watercolor sketch. The outfit details carry over, the pose carries over, and every couple reacts the same way: they hold the two images side by side and pass their phone around the table.

A couple's photo booth portrait next to their watercolor sketch version

It works for weddings, galas, and corporate events that want something a step more elevated than a standard print. And because it starts from a booth photo, guests still get the original too.

A couple in green and a vest next to their watercolor sketch

A couple in formal wear beside their watercolor sketch portraits

Things your guests can take home

Prints are the classic keepsake, but they’re not the only shape a photo can take:

  • Keychains. The photo strip, shrunk down and sealed into something guests carry every day.
  • Pins. Wearable photos, great for schools, teams, and brand activations where guests become walking promotion.
  • Picture frames and photo holders. Send the print home already displayed. Frames double as favors and table gifts.
  • Specialty and alternate papers. Metallic finishes, textured stocks, and unique card formats that make a print feel like stationery instead of a receipt.

Built for your event specifically

Some of the best requests we get aren’t products at all, they’re ideas:

  • Custom props. Not the generic mustache-on-a-stick kit. Props designed around your theme, your inside jokes, or your brand.
  • Cutouts. Life-size or handheld, of the guest of honor, the mascot, the logo, whatever the moment calls for.
  • Unique cards. Save-the-dates, thank-you cards, and event cards built from booth photos, designed in house like everything else we print.

Because we come from a graphic design and marketing background, the design work happens in house. You’re not choosing from a template catalog; we’re building the thing around your event.

How to ask for something that isn’t on the menu

Simple: when you check your date, put your idea in the notes. That’s it. You don’t need to know if it’s possible or what it costs. Tell us what you’re imagining, even half-formed, and we’ll help think through how to bring it to life, what it pairs with, and what it would run.

Some ideas land exactly as described. Some turn into something better once we start sketching. Either way, the conversation costs nothing.

And if you’re still deciding on the booth itself, start with the full comparison of our booth types or our pricing guide, then dream up the extras.

About the author

Carlos Lerma. Carlos Lerma owns and runs Ohh Snap Photo Booth, a Lafayette, LA based team that has brought photo booths to hundreds of weddings, corporate events, and fundraisers across Louisiana. He writes from what happens at real events: what guests line up for, what planners ask, and what makes a booth worth the space in the room. More about Ohh Snap.

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