Selfie Booth Kings is a San Diego–based selfie and photo booth rental company built around one simple idea: hosts want a photo activation at their event, but they don't want another person to manage. Traditional photo booths came with a booth attendant, a folding table, a curtain, and a lot of setup — a whole extra vendor on the timeline. Our drop-off selfie booth removes all of that. We deliver the kiosk, set it up in about twenty minutes, walk your point person through a thirty-second usage guide, and leave. The booth runs itself for up to ten hours. When your event ends, we come back, pack it down, and email your gallery inside forty-eight hours.
The company grew out of Photo Glam Booth, San Diego's award-winning attended photo booth brand, which has run more than a thousand events across San Diego County over the past eight years. Photo Glam Booth is still the flagship for full-service DSLR photo booth experiences — an attendant, a fabric backdrop, a props table, and a red-carpet vibe. Selfie Booth Kings is the drop-off, self-service counterpart: same hardware quality, same print quality, same custom overlays and digital galleries, but priced and packaged for hosts who want the booth to feel like part of the room instead of another vendor at the door.
What "drop-off" actually means
We use the term "drop-off" specifically because rental companies sometimes stretch the word "unattended" to mean "one attendant checks in halfway through." Ours is genuinely drop-off. The kiosk is designed as a single, self-contained column: a professional ring light on top, a high-resolution touch screen in the middle, an on-board printer at the base for print packages, and a tucked-away cable for a single 120V outlet. Guests approach the screen, tap "Start," step into the ring light, choose photo/GIF/Boomerang mode, and either walk away with an instant 2x6 print or grab a QR code that AirDrops the file to their phone in about four seconds. No one has to translate an attendant's instructions to grandma. No one has to wait for a technician to reload paper.
That model is why our booths get so much use per event. When there is no attendant, there is also no line-holder, no upsell pitch, no awkward pause between guests. On a typical 150-guest San Diego wedding reception, our kiosks average between four and six captures per guest — many of them the candid, laughing, off-guard shots that a paid photographer never gets a chance to take because the couple is on stage or on the dance floor. Every one of those captures gets tagged with your event overlay, saved to a digital gallery, and (in print packages) handed to the guest as a physical keepsake within about ten seconds.
Built for every kind of San Diego event
We rent to five very different event categories, and we deliberately built the packages to overlap so hosts don't have to pick a "wedding package" versus a "birthday package." The Essentials at $345 is the pure digital station — perfect for house parties, small offices, and holiday get-togethers where you want the entertainment factor without the printer. The Crowd Favorite at $495 adds unlimited 2x6 prints and the general props kit; that is our most-booked package for birthdays, quinceañeras, sweet sixteens, and casual weddings. The Premier at $595 layers on a choice of red or white flower wall or premium backdrop and the premium prop collection — the sweet spot for weddings, engagement parties, and elevated corporate events. The Showstopper at $695 is the fully styled luxury setup: all-white premium booth finish, choice of red or white flower wall or premium backdrop, vintage audio guestbook phone, luxury black-and-white prop collection, and a full glam station with a lighted mirror, Chanel perfume bottle accents, and a lighted lamp. The King Package at $895 is our flagship — everything in the Showstopper, plus full DSLR premium photo quality, our premier booth setup, the 5-backdrop AI feature so guests can jump between vibes on a single event, two custom-designed print templates (2x6 and 4x6), unlimited 2x6 and 4x6 prints, and a curated scrapbook station.
Every package, from Essentials to King, includes the full ten-hour window — 12 PM to 10 PM — with unlimited captures. There are no per-photo caps, no reload fees, no surprise overages. Extended hours are available on request and are quoted flat, not hourly.
Custom overlays, digital galleries, and the details that matter
Every booking includes a custom print and digital overlay designed by our team. Send us your names and wedding date, your company logo and event hashtag, the graduate's school and class year, or a full designed template from your invitation suite, and we will match it. Draft proofs go out roughly one to two weeks before your event for your approval. Every capture — printed and digital — carries the same overlay, so your event brand stays consistent across the physical keepsakes guests take home and the shareable images that end up on social feeds. The full digital gallery is delivered within forty-eight hours of the event through a private link you can share with guests.
Delivery, insurance, and the venue-side details
We deliver across all of San Diego County. The Showstopper and King Package include free delivery to the San Diego area with additional costs only for events outside San Diego surrounding cities. All other packages include free delivery within a fifteen-mile radius of La Mesa, CA, with a flat travel fee for events beyond that radius. We arrive sixty to ninety minutes before your event start time to set up, and we return at your scheduled end time to pack down — you do not need to be there for either. We are fully insured, we can provide a certificate of insurance to hotel ballrooms, country clubs, corporate venues, and municipal spaces that require one, and we can name your venue or district as additionally insured on request.
Why hosts pick Selfie Booth Kings over other San Diego photo booth companies
The San Diego photo booth market is crowded, and most companies are perfectly capable of showing up with a kiosk. Where we differ is the operational model. Because we are the drop-off sister brand of Photo Glam Booth, we inherited eight years of venue knowledge — which downtown hotel ballrooms have the finicky outlets, which La Jolla estates need a battery pack, which Chula Vista community centers have strict load-in windows, which Encinitas beach venues fight the afternoon sun on the touch screen. That knowledge is built into our setup workflow. It is also why our review base is dense with corporate planners and wedding coordinators who book us repeatedly. When a planner already trusts the vendor to handle load-in without babysitting, the vendor gets called back.
We are also a locally owned San Diego company. Every booking is handled by the same small team, every custom overlay is designed in-house, and every phone call goes to a real person at (619) 257-2268. If you have a question about a venue we have not been to, we will call it. If you need a rush template proof, we can turn one around in a day. If you have a nonstandard request — a battery pack for an outdoor ceremony, an early load-in window, a specific print size for a corporate activation — we will quote it flat, not layered with fees.
How to book
Availability moves fast, especially for Saturday weddings between May and October and for corporate holiday parties in November and December. Text or call (619) 257-2268, email hello@selfieboothkings.com, or scroll up to view our packages. We confirm most San Diego dates within the hour, and we hold your date the moment your deposit clears.