Hiring a photo booth in Bengaluru

A print in hand, or a video on the phone. At the one Bengaluru firm that lists both, a print booth and a 360 booth cost the same, ₹15,000 for 3 hours. So the choice is what your guests take away. A print suits a family crowd and makes a small return gift. A 360 video suits a young crowd that will post it. If grandparents want something to keep, a 360 alone won't give it.

Say "a machine that prints". A decorator's photo booth is often a backdrop with props and a frame to hold. That's a fine photo corner, but there's no camera and no print. Say what you want guests to walk away with.

The collection page has the booth providers we work with: photo booth rentals in Bengaluru.

Sold per event, never by the hour. The Bengaluru booth firms that publish packages sell 3 or 4 hours. None prints an extra-hour rate on its page, though one puts overtime on your written estimate. So a 2-hour party usually pays for 3.

The other kinds of booth. Only one national booth seller publishes prices for most of them, so treat its ranges as a starting point and ask a Bengaluru firm for yours.

What gets added. On top of the booth, you may pay for travel, a custom backdrop on a 360 booth, and GST (question 9). One firm bills travel at cost past 15 km of the city centre, and another charges ₹2,000 to ₹3,000 for transport. Ask for the price with all of these in it.

From the providers we work with. The Wrapped Hearts told us on a call in September 2026 that her photo booth or 360 booth starts around ₹20,000 for 3 hours, depending on the venue and the job. Selene Capture and Pixie Photobooth rent booths as their main work. Ask them for the price for your date.

Who works which way. Two providers we work with rent booths as their main job, one of each kind. We don't hold a price from either yet, so ask them for yours.

Selene Capture: a stand-up kiosk

Ask for the price

Pixie Photobooth: a walk-in booth

Ask for the price

What the firms' own pages show. A Bengaluru booth firm lists ₹15,000 for 3 hours with 150 prints and two operators. A vintage booth brand lists ₹30,000 for up to 3 hours with 200 prints, in a handcrafted wooden booth. Neither page says why one costs double. What you can see is the booth, and 50 more prints. The brand is based in Noida and doesn't say what getting it here costs, so ask before you compare.

Pay for the looks at a wedding. If the booth stands near the stage, it will be in the background of many family photos, so a booth that matches the decor is worth the extra. At a kids' birthday or an office party, the simple booth hands out the same print in less time.

A backdrop and phones. A Bengaluru camera rental shop rents a backdrop kit with a stand for ₹700 a day, and another a 10x10 ft stand with cloth for ₹1,500 a day. Nobody runs it and there are no lights unless you bring them, so it suits a party of 20 or 30 where guests are happy to take their own photos.

An instant camera. If you or a friend owns one, film costs about ₹70 to ₹80 a shot at retail, so 50 prints come to about ₹3,500 to ₹4,000. Buying the camera is about ₹7,500. One person has to hold it all evening, and with one camera there's one queue. We found no Bengaluru rental price for an instant camera.

Your decorator or photographer. Ask whether their "photo booth" is a machine or a decorated corner. A Bengaluru wedding photography firm lists a 360 booth from ₹15,000 as an add-on to its photographers. Mahinava Events, a decorator we work with, adds a selfie booth or a 360 booth when she does your decor, and doesn't take a booth as a job on its own. All About Happiness, an event firm we work with, can add an instant-print booth in Bengaluru. Neither has given us a booth price, so ask.

Our view. Under about 50 guests, a backdrop and an instant camera someone owns does the job. Above that, or where elders want a print without queuing at one camera, a staffed booth earns its price.

Count your guests. A print is a 4x6 photo at some firms and a strip of four small frames at others, like the strips above, so ask which you get. If every child should take a print home as a return gift, pick unlimited prints or a count above your guest list. One Bengaluru firm gives a cardboard stand with each photo, and a vintage booth brand sells its prints as the return gift.

What "unlimited" can hide. A booth firm in Patna says some vendors charge for each print past a limit. One Bengaluru firm says it has no per-print fees. Get either one in writing.

Names, date or a logo on the print. Most print booths offer a print design with your names and date, often in the package. Ask by when you have to approve the design, since it's usually fixed before the day.

The copies on phones. Firms send them by QR code or WhatsApp, upload them to their website, or copy every photo to your pen drive after the event. None we read says how long an online gallery stays up, so download it that week.

Selene Capture, on prints and the live guestbook album:

The time it really takes. One firm's crew comes 60 to 90 minutes before your start to set up and test. Another takes about an hour to set up and an hour to pack: for a party from 6 to 9 pm it arrives at 5 and leaves by 10. A flipbook booth needs about 2 hours to set up.

Tell them the hall's times. If the hall is free only an hour before your guests come, say so when you book, so the crew can plan.

Running over. None of the firms prints an extra-hour rate on its page. One puts its overtime rate on your written estimate before you book. Ask for it, so the last hour of the party doesn't bring a surprise bill.

Hotels. One five-star hotel in Bengaluru asks every outside vendor it lets in for a certificate of insurance and a vendor agreement it provides. One booth firm says its equipment is insured, so ask yours for the certificate.

Apartment clubhouses. Some complexes don't let vendors in before 9 am or after 8 pm, security may want the crew's names and ID in advance, and the booth may have to go up in a booked service lift. Tell the booth firm your society's rules when you book.

Banquet halls. Halls often charge outside vendors a fee, but we found no hall that names one for a photo booth. Ask the hall whether its fee covers one.

How a breakdown usually goes. No firm publishes this, but in this trade the printer is usually what fails, from a jam or the paper running out. The operator restarts it or changes the roll. A camera or screen fault takes longer. One Bengaluru firm promises the booth stays working all evening and tests it before the doors open.

What to agree before you pay: that they bring a spare printer and paper, how many hours and prints you're paying for, how many operators come, and what you get back if the booth is down for part of the time. What's in writing is what you can hold them to. In Kerala, a consumer commission made a wedding photography firm pay back all ₹80,000 it was paid, and ₹2.5 lakh more, because it left out a helicam and other work it had promised.

Our estimate for 600 guests. If a group takes about a minute to step in, pose, get the print and step out, one booth serves about 60 groups an hour, or 180 in 3 hours. 600 people in fours is 150 groups, and in threes it's 200. So one booth for 3 hours copes only if people come in fours or more, with a queue after the speeches and at dinner. Two booths, or 4 hours, give you room.

Your brand on everything. One Bengaluru firm puts your design on the print frame in every package. A vintage booth brand puts logos and hashtags on the print. One national seller charges ₹3,000 to ₹10,000 for custom frames. Selene Capture, which we work with, does booths with custom print designs for brand launches. Ask them for the price.

The GST bill. Event services carry 18% GST, and a firm must register once its turnover crosses ₹20 lakh. So a small operator may charge no GST at all, and a larger one adds 18%. A small firm on the composition scheme gives a bill of supply, and your company can't claim that GST back. Ask for a GST invoice before you book if finance needs one.