Photo Booth Rentals in San Antonio, Texas
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The photo booth market in San Antonio
29 photo booth companies serve San Antonio, Texas. Between them they carry 2,519 customer reviews, averaging 4.9 out of 5.
San Antonio ranks 2 of 135 Texas cities in this directory by number of local vendors.
All 29 publish a website you can check before booking, and eleven accept booking enquiries around the clock.
Booth styles you can book in San Antonio
Booth styles available locally: 10 360° booths, 6 glam booths, 1 open air booth, 1 enclosed booth, 1 mirror booth and 1 roaming booth. Vendors often run more than one style, so these counts overlap.
Highest-rated in San Antonio
Booking a photo booth in San Antonio
The highest-rated vendor in San Antonio is RMD Photo Booths, at 5.0 stars from 565 reviews.
Most photo booth companies travel to the event, so vendors based in Schertz (20 mi), Poteet (23 mi) and New Braunfels (30 mi) will usually cover San Antonio too.
Prices in San Antonio are set by each vendor and vary with booth style, hours of coverage, and whether prints and props are included, so request quotes from more than one before booking your TX event.
San Antonio venues that see the most booths
San Antonio’s event business sits in two places: the downtown core around the River Walk and St. Paul Square, and the Pearl, the old brewery campus just north of it. Nearly all of it is historic, which is the operative word for a booth vendor. River level runs a storey below the street, several of these rooms are landmark interiors with fixed rules about what can be rolled through them, and one of them is an outdoor garden. Five that come up constantly:
- The EspeeSt. Paul Square
The 1902 Southern Pacific depot, long known as Sunset Station, with more than 20,000 sq ft across nine spaces and weddings running 50 to 350 guests. Big enough that vendors often place two booths instead of one, and the easiest truck access in this group.
- Hotel EmmaThe Pearl
The brewhouse turned 146 room hotel, with roughly 6,160 sq ft of indoor event space plus about 1,500 sq ft of landscaped outdoor space. The interiors are the whole draw here, so booth vendors tend to arrive backdrop free and light to the room instead.
- Stable HallThe Pearl
The 1894 stable that housed the brewery’s draft horses, now a 1,000 capacity music hall with six bars and mezzanine seating. Buyouts and after parties rather than seated dinners, which suits a roaming or 360 setup better than a print booth with a queue behind it.
- Anacacho Ballroom at The St. AnthonyDowntown
A two storey 1940s ballroom of nearly 4,700 sq ft inside the St. Anthony, with crystal chandeliers, twin staircases, a built in stage and up to 400 seated in rounds. The most formal room in the city, and the one where a glam booth belongs and a spinning platform usually does not.
- Jack Guenther Pavilion at the BriscoeRiver Walk
The Briscoe Western Art Museum’s three storey pavilion, plus the 4,100 sq ft McNutt Sculpture Garden, which on its own holds up to 500. Indoor rooms run 100 to 400 seated. The garden is open air under oak canopies, so settle the wet weather position before you sign.
San Antonio planners and destination managers
The planning market here splits cleanly: wedding and quinceañera studios on one side, destination management companies serving convention and incentive groups on the other. Three you will run into:
- The CE Group
San Antonio’s accredited destination management company, running corporate and group programmes end to end (venue sourcing, transport, team building, production). The firm most likely to be behind a conference party in one of the downtown rooms above.
- Goen South
A Texas destination management and event production company with staffed offices in San Antonio, Austin, Houston and Dallas, handling corporate event design and decor alongside the logistics.
- Scarlet Rose Events
A San Antonio wedding planning and design team working San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, with its own decor and rental arm in the Scarlet Rose Collective.
San Antonio runs on 360 and glam
Share of the 29 San Antonio vendors listing each style. Vendors commonly run more than one, so these do not sum to 100%.
- 360°10 of 29 · 34%
- glam6 of 29 · 21%
- open air1 of 29 · 3%
- enclosed1 of 29 · 3%
- mirror1 of 29 · 3%
- roaming1 of 29 · 3%
San Antonio’s advertised market is narrow and very clear about what it sells: 360 platforms first, glam second, and almost nothing else. Every other style, open air included, is listed by a single vendor.
That has a practical consequence the headline vendor count hides. If you want a traditional print booth, a curtained cabin or a mirror, you are effectively choosing between one local option and a vendor driving in from Austin or New Braunfels, so start that search there rather than assuming you will find it in town.
The mix reflects what San Antonio parties are. Quinceañeras and Fiesta season events want video that goes up the same night, and a platform on the dance floor delivers that better than a strip of four prints does.
Read the percentages with one caveat: they count only the styles a listing names, and seventeen of these twenty nine vendors name none. Most of those are categorised as photo booth companies, so the hardware is usually there even when the listing is silent about it. Ask.
What a booth costs in San Antonio
San Antonio is the cheapest of the big Texas markets, below Austin and Dallas, with deep supply at the entry level. Rates are usually quoted per event by length rather than by the hour, and the quinceañera trade has pushed long evening bookings into a band of their own. Published local ranges:
- Short package (2 hours)
- $300 to $550
- Entry level open air or selfie style setup with props and digital delivery. A few vendors open nearer $299.
- Reception package (4 hours)
- $450 to $800
- The common wedding and corporate band, with prints, an attendant and an online gallery.
- 360 and glam
- $400 to $900
- The two formats San Antonio actually stocks. Expect a premium over open air and a two hour minimum.
- Long evening (5 to 6 hours)
- $900 to $1,500
- Quinceañeras and receptions that run to the end of the night. Extra hours add $100 to $150 each, and idle time should be billed below the active rate.
Individual vendors do not publish rates in our listing data. These are market ranges compiled from published San Antonio price guides. Use them to set a budget, then confirm against real quotes.
Booking around Fiesta, heat and rodeo season
Three things drive the San Antonio calendar and only one of them is weddings. Fiesta takes the whole city for ten days in April, summer heat moves everything indoors from June to September, and the February rodeo keeps party vendors busy in a month that is quiet almost everywhere else.
- FiestaTen days in mid to late April
Fiesta draws well over two million people and effectively every entertainment vendor in the city is working it. Book months ahead for any April date and expect premium rates whether or not your event is part of the festival.
- Peak weddingsMarch to May, October to November
The two comfortable weather windows, and the ones outdoor rooms like the Briscoe’s sculpture garden are sold on. Nine to twelve months of notice for a Saturday.
- Indoors, and availableJune to September
Triple digit afternoons push everything inside. The best availability and most flexible pricing of the year, provided your booth is not being placed on an uncovered terrace.
- Quiet, with one exceptionJanuary to February
The soft quarter, apart from the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo run in February, which keeps party and corporate vendors busier than the wedding calendar would suggest.
The Hill Country and I-35 radius
San Antonio vendors treat Loop 1604 as the edge of the fee free radius, then quote the Hill Country and the I-35 corridor beyond it with mileage attached. The markets they cover most:
- New Braunfels, Thirty miles up I-35, and a serious wedding market of its own thanks to the Guadalupe River venues.
- Boerne, Hill Country weddings about 30 miles northwest on I-10. Commonly covered, usually with a travel fee.
- Schertz, Just outside 1604 to the northeast, so effectively a local booking.
- Seguin, Roughly 35 miles east, at the edge of the no fee radius for most vendors.
- Austin, Eighty miles up I-35. Vendors work both cities and Austin companies come south too, which widens your options for the styles San Antonio is thin on.