Everything people ask before they book.

Ours are $249, $359 or $459 for the whole event, with shipping both ways included and no hourly limit. More than 30 days out, $100 reserves your date and the rest is charged 30 days before. A traditional booth with an attendant averages $650 nationally, for about 3 hours.

Because nobody drives to your venue. A traditional booth rental is priced around an attendant's hours — the national average runs about $650 for roughly three hours. We ship you the booth, you set it up in ten minutes, and it runs as long as your party does. No hourly rate, no overtime, no second invoice.

None. The kit is at your address for days, not hours. Rehearsal dinner Friday, wedding Saturday, brunch Sunday — same price. Shoot until the lights come up.

Not a charge, and it is also the most you could ever be charged for damage. Two days before your kit ships we place a refundable authorization on your card — the same mechanism a rental car counter uses. It shows as pending, not as money moved (on a debit card it reduces your available balance until it releases), and it releases the moment your return package gets its first carrier scan. We only ever charge for damage beyond normal wear or a return past the window, and we tell you the amount and the reason first.

What the $500 hold is and isn't →

$100 when you book, if your event is more than 30 days away — that reserves your date and counts toward your total. The rest is charged to the same card 30 days before the event; if that day is more than a week off, we email you first. Booking closer than 30 days? You pay in full at checkout and there is nothing left to pay later.

When you pay, and what the deposit is →

The $100 that reserved your date isn't refundable — it's what took the date off the calendar. Everything else comes back in full if you cancel more than 60 days out; inside that we refund what we haven't already spent building and staging your kit. If we can't supply a kit, you get everything back, the $100 included.

Cancellation and refund policy →

Once, free, up to 30 days out, subject to a booth being available — the $100 that reserved your date moves with it. Inside 30 days we'll try, but a peak Saturday is usually spoken for.

Changing my event date →

No — and this is the answer to give your coordinator. A COI is something venues require of vendors who come on site. Nobody from KnotBooth enters your venue. The booth ships to you and you bring it in yourself, the same as a cake stand or a card box, so there's no vendor to insure.

Will it work at my venue? →

About 8 feet wide by 8 feet deep to use it comfortably — that's the backdrop plus room for a group of six to stand back from it. It'll work in less, but the photos get tighter.

Where to put the booth in the room →

One standard wall outlet. The whole kit runs off a single cable, and it draws less than a coffee maker. Put it within about 15 feet of an outlet or bring an extension cord.

How much power does it need? →

Under cover, yes — a tent, a porch, a pavilion. Not in open weather. Dye-sublimation printers hate humidity and the backdrop stand is not built for wind.

Will it work at my venue? →

Assume it will be. The booth runs its own hotspot, so shooting and printing never depend on the venue's network. Photos queue locally and upload when a connection is available — often not until the kit is back with us. Nothing is ever lost.

The hotspot dropped →

A complete photo booth shipped to you in one case: the booth with its iPad and lights, props, a backdrop, and a printer on two of the three packages. You set it up yourself in about ten minutes with no tools. There is no attendant and no hourly clock, and it goes back in the same box with a prepaid label.

Not for this one, and that is the whole design. A traditional booth needs an attendant because it is assembled on site by someone who knows how, then babysat. Ours arrives pre-paired and test-printed, slides together three ways that only fit one way, and boots straight into your event, locked to the app with a passcode — so there is nothing to configure and nothing for a guest to wander out of. A printed card in the lid covers the four setup steps, and our day-of line is live from delivery until your return is scanned. What you lose is somebody restocking paper at midnight; what you gain is no vendor meal, no attendant fee, and no clock.

The 10-minute setup, step by step →

Ten minutes, one person, no tools. The backdrop stand telescopes up, the three shell pieces slide together — base, printer tower, booth tower, and they only fit one way — then one power cable goes to the wall. The iPad boots straight into your event. There's nothing to log into.

The 10-minute setup, step by step →

That's normal — it's usually a bridesmaid or the venue coordinator. A printed card in the lid walks whoever's holding it through four steps, and our day-of line is live from the moment the box is delivered until your return is scanned.

The 10-minute setup, step by step →

Up to about 150 guests, comfortably. Past that the line gets long late in the night, which is why most 200-guest weddings book the DNP tier — it prints in eight seconds instead of forty-five.

Is one booth enough for 200 guests? →

With the video guestbook add-on, yes. It's $89 and it switches the booth into video mode, and a real microphone ships in the kit so you can actually hear them over the band. Every message lands in your gallery alongside the photos.

No. The booth shoots photos, and video if you add the guestbook. We'd rather tell you that now than have you find out on the night.

Every kit is bench-tested and test-printed the week it ships. If something's wrong when you open the box, call the number on the lid — we overnight a replacement part or a whole second kit at our cost. Damage in transit is never your problem.

The box looks damaged — what now? →

It lands the business day before your event — two business days before for the farthest addresses — and we build the schedule backwards from that, so how far you are from New Jersey changes when it leaves us, not when it arrives. We send your tracking number as soon as it does.

When exactly does it arrive? →

Yes, and it takes $100 off your total, which is what carrying it to you and back costs us. Tick the box at checkout and pick a day. Two things to know: collection days are Monday to Thursday, and it is a request rather than a booking — we confirm your day by email, usually within a working day. If we can't do the day you picked we'll ship it to you as normal and put the $100 back on, and we'll tell you before that happens.

We can, but we usually talk people out of it. Venues lose boxes, and nobody's there to sign on a Tuesday. Ship it to your house or your parents' house and bring it with you.

Shipping it straight to the venue →

Repack it in the same box, seal it, and hand it in at any UPS Store or UPS drop-off point. The prepaid UPS label is already taped inside the lid. You have two days after your event to hand it over — not to have it arrive — and your hold releases on the first scan.

How to repack the kit →

It's $75 a day. Not to punish you — one kit can only serve one Saturday, and a kit that comes back three days late costs another couple their date.

Late return fees, plainly →

Not yet. Hawaii, Alaska and Canada break the round-trip freight math at these prices. Anywhere in the contiguous US is fine.

Do you ship to my state? →

You do. Full resolution, no watermark, no expiry. We keep a copy on your gallery so your guests can find theirs, and we'll take the gallery down whenever you ask.

Deleting my gallery →

That's our own gallery platform — the same one Red Bank Studio delivers wedding photography on. It's not a third-party booth app that sells your guests upgrades. You get one link, your guests download their own copies, and nothing expires.

Yes, and it's included in every package. After you book you get a link to your private event page where you upload your logo or monogram and see a live preview of the actual strip — the preview is drawn from the booth's real print measurements, so what you see is what prints. If you'd rather we just make it look good, tick the box and we will.

Uploading your logo and strip design →

They text or email them to themselves from the booth before they walk away. One tap, no sign-up, no app. Everything also lands in your gallery overnight.

What the $500 hold is and isn't →