Frequently asked questions

A portrait studio for your guests. We bring a portable studio — backdrop, professional lighting, photographer + assistant — and set it up at your event. For three hours, every guest who walks in gets directed by a real photographer and walks out with an editorial portrait. Digital, printed, or framed depending on the tier.

It runs alongside whatever else is happening at your event. Guests come over between courses, between sets, between speakers. Two minutes per portrait, no waiting line because the photographer is moving people through, and they leave with something they actually keep.

At a photo booth, the timer fires whether the guest looks good or not. At the Lounge, the photographer waits for the moment your guest looks like the best version of themselves. That's why your guests walk out with photos they'll actually keep, instead of strips that get left on the dinner table.

Plan on 1-2 hours before guests arrive for setup, 3 hours of event coverage, and 1 hour after for breakdown.

Tier 1 (Digital) setup is typically 1 hour. Tier 2 (On-Site Prints) setup runs up to 2 hours — the on-site editing and print workstation has more variables, so we ask for the cushion.

Yes — we cover all of Colorado. Mountain bookings include a flat travel fee:

• $250 for venues within 3 hours of Denver — Vail, Beaver Creek, Breckenridge, and similar (same-day round trip)
• $600 for venues beyond 3 hours — Aspen and further (overnight required)

Wedding bookings include travel; the Lounge surfaces it separately because it’s a focused 3-hour event activation rather than a full-day wedding service.

Combo bookings and Tier 4 (Bespoke) — travel handled within the package quote.

Yes — at two levels.

Mode A (default): we bring our own clean backdrop and professional lighting — a minimal editorial frame that works at any venue.

Mode B (your set): if you already have a designed environment — a florist installation, a gala backdrop, a brand activation, your venue’s architecture — we roll the portable studio into that environment and shoot inside it. Same Tier 1-3 pricing.

For events where the set itself should be part of the portrait — galas, brand activations, milestone events — that lives at Tier 4 Bespoke, where we co-design and build a custom set with trusted Colorado partners. 3-month minimum lead time.

Tier 2 (On-Site Prints) includes one printed portrait per guest, handed at the event. Dye-sub printer + on-site editor for live retouching.

Tier 3 (Framed Keepsakes) adds 4×6 or 5×7 framing on each printed portrait.

At Tier 1 (Digital), printing isn’t included by default — but a print add-on can be quoted on request.

Each guest gets a QR code on-site that links directly to their portraits in the post-event Pic-Time gallery — powered by our AI face recognition. The full gallery is delivered within 24 hours of the event close, so you can email it to guests while the night is still fresh in their memory.

Over two years of the Portraits Lounge, we are always accommodating to each guest and their requests. We spend time to get it right.

Event coverage tells the story of your event. The Lounge gives every guest a portrait of themselves. Different work, different output — and we can run both at the same event, with one of us covering the event and the other running the Lounge.

See combo packages for paired bookings.

Yes — combo packages available. Inquire for pricing.

Each Lounge serves up to ~150 guests per 3-hour activation. For larger events we scale two ways:

• Parallel setups — a second studio running alongside the first, doubling throughput
• Extended hours — adding a fourth or fifth hour to the booking

Both options are surfaced during the inquiry conversation; we’ll size the recommendation to your guest count and venue floor plan.