Korean Photo Sticker Booths Are Everywhere — Here's How to Get One at Your Event

Walk through almost any mall in Singapore on a Saturday and you'll find a queue outside a small, brightly lit room. Four friends go in. Four minutes later they come out peeling a sheet of tiny photos apart and sticking them onto the backs of their phones.

The self-photo studio has gone from novelty to fixture. And the question we've started getting more than any other this year is a simple one: can we have that at our event?

Yes. It's the same idea, with three differences that matter.

Where the format came from

Photo stickers aren't new. Japanese purikura machines put the format into arcades in the mid-1990s, and a generation of teenagers filled notebooks and pencil cases with the results. What changed recently is the room around the camera: the Korean self-photo studio stripped out the arcade cabinet and replaced it with a clean white space, a remote shutter, good lighting and a mirror, so you shoot yourself rather than hunch into a booth.

That shift is why it came back. The photos stopped looking like arcade output and started looking like something you'd actually post. The sticker is the souvenir; the studio is the experience.

Why a sticker beats most door gifts

We've written before about which event souvenirs guests actually keep, and the finding is blunt: survival has almost nothing to do with how nice the item is. It depends on whether it has somewhere to live.

A framed print needs a shelf. A branded tumbler competes with the four better ones already in the cupboard. A sticker needs a flat surface the guest is already carrying — and the most popular one by a wide margin is a phone case, especially a clear one, where the sticker sits under the plastic and becomes part of the phone.

That's a souvenir someone looks at dozens of times a day without ever deciding to. No other door gift gets that.

What changes when you bring it to an event

1. The print is designed around your event

A mall studio gives you its frame. At an event, our designer builds the sticker layout around your theme, colours, logo or hashtag, with two rounds of revisions before the day. Your names and date sit on every sticker that comes out of the printer, which is what turns it from a nice photo into a memento of a specific evening.

2. Nobody pays, and nobody rations

Mall booths charge per session, so groups ration: one sheet between four people, then an argument about who keeps which square. At an event the stickers are unlimited for the whole booking, so everybody in the photo takes their own. That single difference is what stops the booth becoming a bottleneck.

3. Two crew keep it moving

Self-service is fine when you have all afternoon. At a wedding or a dinner and dance, with a programme running and 200 people to get through, it isn't. The Sticker Photobooth comes with two crew on site: one running the camera and posing guests, one on the printer and cutting. A 2-hour session comfortably serves 150 to 250 guests. We arrive 45 minutes before your start time so the booth is ready before the first guest walks in.

Pick one size and stick to it

Stickers come in two sizes. You choose one for the whole event so the design stays consistent — and because a single layout means the crew never has to stop and reconfigure mid-queue.

Size	Dimensions	Suits
Mini	2″ × 2″	Phone cases and laptops. The closest to the mall-booth look.
Wallet	3″ × 2″	The bigger of the two — room for a logo without dominating the surface.

If you want to see how each one sits next to our paper print sizes, the print out guide lays them all out to scale.

What it costs

The Sticker Photobooth is $988 for 2 hours or $788 for a single hour, with each additional hour at $380. That includes unlimited stickers, the custom design with two revisions, props, a backdrop, two crew, and free setup and teardown.

It's priced identically to our Keychain and Magnet Photobooths, which is deliberate — you're choosing a format, not a budget tier. You can see all seven booths side by side on the packages and pricing page.

Which events it suits

21st birthdays and younger guest lists. The clearest fit. The format already lives on their phones.

Second receptions and solemnisations. Lighter and more playful than a banquet favour, and quicker to hand out.

Corporate and brand activations. A logo on a sticker goes onto a laptop and stays there. That's months of passive exposure for the cost of a door gift — and unlike a tote bag, nobody throws it in a cupboard.

Where it's weaker: a traditional Chinese banquet with three generations in the room. Older guests tend to want something they can hold rather than something they stick on a device. For those, a keychain or magnet usually lands better.

Three things to settle before you book

1. Your size. Decide early — the design is built around it.
2. Your artwork. Send your theme, colours, logo or hashtag and we'll draft the layout. Two revisions are included, so there's room to change your mind once.
3. Your window. Pick the two hours when most guests are in the room, not the full event length. A busy booth beats a long quiet one.

Common questions

What is a Korean photo sticker booth?

A self-photo setup that prints your shots as peel-and-stick photo stickers instead of a paper strip. The format began with Japanese purikura machines in the 1990s and was revived by the self-photo studios that spread across Korea and then the rest of Asia. The appeal is unchanged: a small, bright, instantly printed photo you can stick on something you already own.

Can I rent a sticker photobooth for an event in Singapore?

Yes. Peculiar Booth's Sticker Photobooth is $988 for 2 hours or $788 for a single hour, with each additional hour at $380 — unlimited stickers, a design made for your event with 2 revisions, props, a backdrop, crew, and free setup and teardown.

How is an event sticker booth different from a mall one?

The design is yours rather than the studio's template. The stickers are unlimited and free to your guests. And a crew runs it, so nobody is working out the timer settings while a queue builds behind them.

What sticker sizes are available?

Two: Mini at 2″ × 2″ and Wallet at 3″ × 2″. You choose one size for the whole event so the design stays consistent.

How many guests can a sticker booth handle?

A 2-hour session comfortably serves 150 to 250 guests. Two crew run the Sticker Photobooth, and if a guest has taken their photo inside the booked window, the crew stays until that person has their sticker in hand.

Where do guests actually stick them?

Phone cases by a wide margin, especially clear ones. Laptop lids, water bottles, notebooks and luggage come next.