A photo booth serves one guest at a time. The room's phones serve everyone at once. That one difference decides what you are holding a year later, and it is the whole argument here.
Booths are genuinely good at what they do, so this is not a takedown. It is the trade written out plainly, so you can decide which half of it you are paying for.
What a booth is for
The booth is not a camera. It is an activity.
It gives shy guests something to do with their hands and a reason to interact with people they have not seen in a decade. The queue is part of it: people wait together, they get louder, the props come out, and the fourth frame is always the good one because by then everyone has stopped posing. It produces one well-lit portrait of nearly everyone who steps in, which is more than most events get. And it hands over an object, warm, immediately, that goes on a fridge and stays there.
A link is not an object. If the strip is the point of the booth for you, book the booth. Nothing on this page replaces the strip.
What happens while the queue moves
Now count what the booth cannot see, because it is standing still in the corner of one room while the guests who make the moments wait in line for it.
The ceremony. The speech where your uncle loses it halfway through. The first dance from the middle of the floor rather than from the edge. The kitchen door where the caterers and your cousin's kids are eating cake. The parking lot goodbye. The whole getting-ready morning, hours before the booth was even delivered. And every single moment during the hour the booth was busiest, because the guests who were making those moments were in the queue.
There is a second, quieter miss. A booth prints one copy. Whoever walked away with the strip has it, and everybody else has a memory of seeing it. Even where digital copies come back to the host, guests usually do not get everyone else's frames, so the coverage that did happen is not shared.
The room as the booth
A QR event album inverts every constraint. There is no corner, because the cameras are already in the room, in the pockets of everyone who came. There is no hour, because the code works from the getting-ready photos to the parking lot. There is no queue, because uploading takes one tap in a browser with no app to install and no password to invent.
Two of those rows are worth a sentence each. Video is a paid feature, so a free event collects photos only; a one-off wedding usually wants the Event Pass for that reason, and the pricing page is the honest place to check it. And the last row is the structural difference: a booth serves guests one at a time, so a bigger wedding gets a longer queue and no more of the day covered, while an album gets another angle from every extra person who walks in.
Run both, and let each do its job
The best version of this argument is not either-or.
Run the booth as the entertainment, and run the album as the record. Put the QR code on the table cards and one more card at the booth itself, so the guests who just did four frames upload the phone photo they took of the strip while they were laughing at it. The booth's own images can go in too: whoever operates it hands over the files, and they can be uploaded into the same album as everything else, so a year later there is one place to look rather than a folder, a strip, and three chats.
Curation stays yours either way. Turn on review if you want to see uploads before they appear, then clear the queue in one pass with Approve all when you get to it. Every guest's angle of the day is the fuller case for the room as your camera crew.
Which half you are paying for
If your budget only stretches to one of them, ask what you want to be holding in five years. A booth gives you a handful of framed strips and a very fun hour. An album gives you the day itself, from every angle, in files you can print. For most weddings that is not close, and the album is also the thing your guests get to keep rather than watch you keep.
If the appeal was the charm rather than the coverage, disposable cameras get the same treatment in their own post, and the full wedding QR guide covers the setup end to end.
The next step is small and reversible: create the event, print one card for the table, and decide about the booth afterward.
