For a wedding, choose a print booth if you can only pick one. Prints become the favor, the memory-board pin, and the thing on your grandmother’s refrigerator for the next decade. Choose digital only when budget is tight or your crowd skews young and share-first, and know that every print booth we run delivers digital copies too, so prints are additive, not either-or.
We run both kinds at Louisiana weddings every season. Here’s the honest comparison.
Our portrait booth pairs a professional camera and studio lighting with on-the-spot prints in a layout our designers build around your wedding. What we see at receptions, over and over: guests don’t leave prints behind. They compare strips at their tables, take a second turn to redo a blink, and pocket the photo on the way out. The print is a favor that never gets abandoned next to the centerpiece.
You still get everything digital: guests text or email their photos to themselves, and the whole night lands in your online gallery. Print packages run $500 to $900, with the Ultimate tier printing unlimited copies; full numbers are in our wedding photo booth cost guide.
Our social booth skips the printer: photos, GIFs, and boomerangs go straight to guests’ phones with your custom overlay. It starts at $350, takes up the smallest footprint of anything we run, and the content circulates while the reception is still happening.
Where it fits weddings: second lines and after-parties, younger crowds, tight budgets, or as the second booth alongside a print booth so the dance floor crowd has a fast lane.
Ask yourself who your guests are. If your wedding has grandparents, aunts, and college friends across three generations, print wins; half your guest list doesn’t want a GIF, they want the photo in their hands. If it’s 120 people under 35, digital only can genuinely work.
And if you want the flattering, editorial version of print, the glam booth does black and white with a skin-smoothing finish; we compare it with the standard booth in glam vs. traditional.
Prints, sharing, space, and price for every booth we run are in one table on our types of photo booths comparison. If you’re still torn, tell us about your guest list; it usually answers the question in one conversation.
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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