Bama Photo Booths

Anniston-based Bama Photo Booths has spent years turning up at weddings, corporate parties, and school dances across east Alabama, all run out of a business built by a single owner with a day job in software. Rickey Moore operates Bama Photo Booths alongside his broader photography practice, R L Moore Photography, LLC, from a home base on Franklin Drive in Anniston, and the operation has grown almost entirely through word of mouth from one event to the next.

Moore’s day job is as a lead programmer and analyst at BAE Systems in Anniston, work he has carried alongside the photo and photo booth business rather than in place of it. He grew up in Flat Rock, Alabama, and attended Pisgah High School before going on to Jacksonville State University, Temple Baptist Seminary, and Florida State University. He also holds a Google Trusted Photographer credential, a distinction tied to his broader photography work that includes Google Street View imaging for local businesses in addition to weddings, portraits, and event coverage.

The core offering is straightforward: a modern photo booth setup that travels to a client’s venue, complete with customizable print templates that can be branded for a wedding, a company logo, or a themed party. Guests step in, strike a pose, and walk away with a printed keepsake within seconds, while the booth simultaneously builds a live digital gallery that hosts and out-of-town guests can access from their phones during the event itself. For couples planning a wedding on a budget, or company event planners trying to keep costs predictable, Moore markets the service around a simple pitch: a memorable experience without the steep price tag that some larger photo booth companies charge.

Behind that simple pitch is a fairly deep equipment lineup. Bama Photo Booths lists 13 distinct booth experiences available for rental, including three 360-degree photo booths, two overhead booths, a traditional platform booth, and printing booths available in 2×6, 4×6, and 5×7 print sizes. Digital and selfie booths round out the lineup, with features such as boomerangs, animated GIFs, short videos, and instant online albums, plus roaming photo booth units that a photographer can carry through a reception rather than leaving guests to find a fixed booth location.

For weddings specifically, the company’s most requested package is the Deluxe Wedding Print Bundle, which includes a print booth for up to three hours, a booth experience customized to the couple’s colors, images, and theme, one or two on-site attendants, props and a backdrop when needed, unlimited prints for all guests, a physical wedding album, an online gallery with downloadable images, and an audio guest phone feature that lets guests leave a recorded voice message alongside their photos.

A virtual booth option extends the same service to guests who cannot attend in person, letting remote friends and family drop into the same digital gallery and add their own photos to the shared collection. That kind of flexibility has become more common in the photo booth industry generally, but for a small, independently run outfit based in Anniston to offer it alongside the standard in-person setup speaks to how much Moore has kept the technical side of the business current even while running it as a side operation to his main career.

The service area stretches well beyond Anniston itself, reaching towns such as Scottsboro, Talladega, Pell City, Fort Payne, and Gadsden, which means the booth is often on the road most weekends during peak wedding and graduation season. Even with that regional reach, the business remains rooted in Anniston, and local clients booking a wedding reception or a milestone birthday party can expect to work directly with Moore rather than a call center or a franchise dispatcher.

Beyond the booth rentals, Moore’s broader photography work covers weddings, portraits, and general event coverage, giving Bama Photo Booths a natural overlap with a full-service photography operation. For anyone planning an event in Anniston who wants a lighthearted, interactive addition to the evening without hiring a large production company, Bama Photo Booths offers a locally run alternative built on the same kind of personal attention that made the business grow one referral at a time.

Pricing and package details are handled directly through Moore rather than a sales team, and clients working through the process typically communicate by email or phone to lock in a date, discuss backdrop and template options, and confirm delivery of the digital gallery after the event wraps up. That level of direct owner involvement, unusual for a service that many assume comes from a larger vendor, is part of what has kept Bama Photo Booths a recognizable name in Anniston’s event planning circles.