Photo Booth Rentals in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville rooms that book photo booths

A surprising number of Nashville event rooms used to be something else: a car factory, two nineteenth century churches, a concert hall whose floor turns into a ballroom. For a booth vendor the useful split is between open vendor rooms, where you hire whoever you like, and houses with required vendor lists that an outside booth has to be cleared against. Five that come up constantly:

• Marathon Music WorksMarathon Village

  Part of the early 1900s Marathon Motor Works car factory, opened as a music venue in 2011. Over 14,000 sq ft, taking 900 for cocktails, 600 at a banquet or 1,800 standing for a show. Outside caterers and vendors are welcome and the rental includes twelve hours for setup and teardown, which makes this one of the least stressful load ins in the city.

• The Bell TowerDowntown (historic Black Bottom)

  Built in 1874 as Saint Paul AME Church and converted into an event venue in 2014. Up to 700 for cocktails or about 360 seated. Catering is through Dream Events and Catering and lighting through Nashville Lighting and Production, but other licensed and insured vendors, a photo booth included, can be brought in.

• Clementine HallSylvan Park

  An 1889 church rebuilt in 2018, holding 200 for a seated dinner or 450 for a standing reception, with a courtyard, a lounge and a catering kitchen. Seated capacity drops to 175 once a band and dance floor go in, so agree the booth corner at the walkthrough rather than on the day.

• Schermerhorn Symphony CenterDowntown

  Opened in 2006. The seats of the 1,844 seat Laura Turner Concert Hall lower mechanically to leave a 5,700 sq ft hardwood ballroom floor under 30 soundproof windows. Eleven event spaces and a preferred caterer, and a room where a glam booth suits the setting far better than a spinning platform.

• Cheekwood Estate and GardensWest Nashville

  Eleven spaces across the estate, including the Historic Mansion and Swan Lawn (350 seated). The strictest house on this list: approved caterers only, a set of required rental and production vendors, a licensed planner on every wedding, and ceremonies no earlier than 5:30pm because the grounds close to the public at 5pm. Check that your booth vendor can work under those rules before you book either.

Who plans Nashville events

Nashville’s planning trade has two faces: the wedding firms couples meet, and the destination managers behind the convention and corporate groups that fill downtown. One long running name from each:

• EBJ & Company

  Founded in 2002 as Events by Janie and relaunched under Casey Cannon in 2019, now a team of four lead planners handling Nashville weddings.

• Event Logistics, Inc.

  A destination management company working since 1994 from 1801 West End Ave., running meetings, conventions and group programs for companies bringing events into the city.

Planning around bachelorettes, CMA Fest and football

Nashville’s calendar is set as much by visitors as by locals. Bachelorette groups fill the city from spring into fall, CMA Fest takes over downtown every June, and home football weekends stack on top of the fall wedding peak.

• Peak weddingsApril, May, September, October

  The two comfortable weather windows. Saturdays go first, so book 9 to 12 months ahead for a spring or fall wedding.

• CMA FestEarly June

  Four days of downtown concerts that draw around 95,000 fans and push downtown hotel occupancy to about 90 percent. Any event downtown that week competes for rooms, parking and load in time.

• Football and fallSeptember to November

  Vanderbilt and Titans home games land on the same weekends as the best wedding dates, which tightens downtown logistics as well as vendor calendars.

• New Year’s EveDecember 31

  The Big Bash draws a crowd of more than 200,000 downtown. Book early for any NYE party and plan arrival times around the crowds.

• QuietestJanuary, February and July

  Winter is the slow season, and July heat and humidity thin the outdoor calendar. The best availability and most room to negotiate.

Out to Franklin, Hendersonville and Murfreesboro

Nashville vendors cover the counties around Davidson as a matter of course, and a travel fee tends to appear as you head past the first ring of suburbs. Where they drive most:

• Franklin, About 22 miles south, and Williamson County’s wedding center, from downtown hotels to barn venues out toward Leiper’s Fork.
• Brentwood, Eleven miles south, close enough to feel like a city booking. Ravenswood Mansion hosts ceremonies for up to 300.
• Hendersonville, About 18 miles northeast in Sumner County, where Historic Rock Castle hosts weddings.
• Mount Juliet, Roughly 20 miles east along I-40 in Wilson County.
• Murfreesboro, Around 37 miles southeast, with six booth vendors of its own, so quotes come from both directions.

Photo booth rentals near Nashville