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Instant Photo Chicago
Pricing
Prices start at $695
Packages
Prices start at $795
About Instant Photo Chicago
Instant Photo Chicago
Owner and photographer Mark Hawk combines a background in portraiture and fine art with a love for candid, in-between moments. Blending seamlessly into your celebration, he roams your cocktail hour and reception capturing genuine laughter, dance floor chaos, quiet hugs, and everything in between. The result feels nostalgic, personal, and completely different from a traditional photo booth. Designed to complement your primary photographer, Instant Photo Chicago elevates the atmosphere while giving guests a keepsake they’ll actually keep. It’s a modern wedding experience built around the magic of analog.
Instant Photo Chicago was created for couples who want something more dynamic than a backdrop and a line. Instead of pulling guests away from the party, this experience moves with it. By the end of the night, instead of waiting weeks for memories to arrive, couples leave with a tangible wedding album already filled with moments from their day.
In three words: Flexible, Fun, Thoughtful
Services
- Gifts and favors
- Photo booths
Instant Photo Chicago packages
The Perfect Wedding Day
Looking for something more than a photobooth? Our 4-hour roaming instant photography package captures all the little moments of your wedding — from cocktail hour to the dance floor — and gives your guests instant photos to take home. At the end of the night, you’ll also get a beautifully crafted keepsake album filled with details, candids and portraits. Truly one of a kind.
- 4hrs of roaming photography
- Unlimited instant photos
- Keepsake photo album
The Ultimate Wedding Package
The Ultimate Wedding Package is full coverage built around both experience and volume. It includes 6 hours of coverage with two roaming instant photographers capturing moments throughout the event, plus a dedicated Guest Book Experience during cocktail hour. Guests receive unlimited instant photos, while you get a completed keepsake album by the end of the night, along with a digital gallery of scanned images to revisit everything afterward.
- 6 hours of Coverage
- 2 Roaming Instant Photographers
- Unlimited Instant Photos for Guests
- Cocktail Hour Guest Book Experience
- Keepsake Photo Album
- Digital Gallery
The Polaroid Guest Book Experience
The Guest Book Experience is a more structured take on instant photography, with a dedicated photographer stationed at a guest book table capturing portraits of your guests throughout the event. Each photo is placed directly into the book for guests to leave a message alongside it, creating a finished keepsake in real time. We provide everything needed, including the setup, materials, and film, with coverage starting at 4 hours.
- Guest book attendant / photographer
- Guest book station
- Backdrop
- Starting at 4 hours
Cocktail Hour Fun
Cocktail Hour Fun is the perfect entry point for instant photography, focused on the most social part of your wedding. For 2 hours during cocktail hour, a roaming instant photographer captures guests as they mingle, handing out unlimited prints in real time. It’s an easy way to add energy and give your guests something to take with them right from the start.
- 2 hours of Cocktail Hour Coverage
- 1 Roaming Instant Photographer
- Unlimited Instant Photos
- For weddings with 100-150 guests
Reviews
Write a review5.0 out of 5
2 reviews
- M
Marissa
10/10!!!
We hired Mark for our wedding in September 2025 and he truly went above and beyond! He showed up early and made sure to get aesthetic detailed shots for our polaroid album. He also did a great job of handing out photos to our guests to have a keepsake to take home. This was on top of having such a fun polaroid album for us to take home at the end of the night! This was such a fun thing to have at our wedding instead of the traditional photo booths. He also reached out to us after our services had already been completed and we got our photos scanned to be able to share them online and saved digitally! It was such a nice gesture to make this service even more valuable - I seriously cannot recommend Mark enough for his services!! 10/10!!!
- K
Katie
So much fun!
Instant Photo Chicago was an absolute pleasure to work with for our wedding day. Their communication was easy, quick, and straightforward throughout the entire process. The quality of their work was truly priceless - the photo album we received at the end of the night was so lovely, and our guests loved getting to see the photos develop right on the dancefloor. The instant photos were such a fun and unique addition that really captured the energy and joy of our celebration. We highly recommend Instant Photo Chicago to any couple looking for an amazing wedding experience.
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