Photo Booth Time Question...Opinions Please

I would start it during cocktail hour if I were you....just because it would give everyone something to do during the cocktail hour.

Hmm, I'm torn. At first I agreed with Rachel, but the more I thought about it, the more I thought it might be a good idea to let people have a drink or five in them before setting them loose on the photo booth

Start it after dinner. This is what my photo booth vendor recommended because otherwise you have people congregating around the booth instead of sitting down for dinner and your grand entrance. Our dinner was at 7, we opened the photo booth at 8 when the DJ started and had him make an announcement and it worked perfectly.

I too am looking to book a photo booth and was thinking of doing this .

Start at 5:30 (cocktail Hr)

Closed from 6:30 to 7:30 for dinner

(they were charging me $25 for this hour but I got them to waive the fee)

Re-open at 7:30 after dinner and close curtains at 10:30pm.

Since we will be doing pictures during cocktail hour I wanted people to have something to do while we were away plus I think it will help set the tone for a fun reception.

I was at our best friends' wedding this weekend where the photobooth was open the whole time... The vendor took it upon herself to open it early because just a few people wanted to use it. But then, they were going to close early when it was REALLY busy so FH and I ended up paying them $100 for an extra hour. So if you have to choose, definitely do it after dinner or else you'll probably just find yourself paying more money to keep it open, or having disappointed people when it closes early and they are just drunk enough to get in to it.

If you can- do what lov3ualways is doing.. Open for the cocktail hour, close for dinner, reopen for the rest of the night/until your time is up.

We had a photobooth at our wedding, which we got through our DJ. They opened the photobooth AFTER the speeches and grace was finished. I personally wouldn't start it before then because then people may not pay attention to the speeches and/or toasts IMO, unless they close it. I would assume however that the 4 hours is a continuous time block?

I'm going to say start it at the start of your cocktail hour!! I agree with Rachel 100%

Yes, continuous block...unless I can talj them into something else.

Thanks for the suggestions...good thoughts!