The rooms, one at a time
Vaughan is not a city where a photo booth company can be vague. The wedding and corporate calendar runs through a small number of large ballrooms, and each of them has its own load-in, its own floorplan quirk and its own answer to where the booth should sit. We have been working these rooms since 2011. Here is what we actually know about them.
Château Le Jardin
Woodbridge
The East Wing divides into the Renaissance, Champagne and Le Parisien ballrooms, and which configuration you have booked changes where the booth belongs. A party in one third of the East Wing has a completely different traffic pattern from the full room.
In a divided room we set up on the bar side, because the line forms out of the drink queue without any help. In the full room we go opposite the dance floor so the two crowds are not competing for the same floor space.
Paradise Banquet Hall
Vaughan
Multiple rooms run at once here, so the booth needs to read as clearly yours from across the lobby. This is where a custom template earns its money: guests from the other event walk past, and you do not want your crowd wandering into the wrong line.
Ground-level access and a service door near the ballrooms. Straightforward hour.
The Venetian
Concord
Ten minutes from our door, which matters more than it sounds for a weekday event. A 5pm start does not mean fighting Highway 7 with a loaded van at rush hour.
They know our load-in, so the hour before doors is genuinely setup time rather than time spent finding someone with a key.
Hazelton Manor
Vaughan
Big room, high ceilings, heavily lit. The ceiling height is the useful part: this is one of the Vaughan rooms where the 360 platform comfortably clears, which is not true everywhere.
The lighting is warm and strong, so a colour backdrop can fight the room. Worth considering the glam booth here.
The Terrace Banquet Centre
Vaughan
Another multi-room house, and another one where a branded or custom template stops your guests joining somebody else's queue by mistake.
Plan the booth position around the speeches. In rooms this size the programme goes long and the booth sits idle through it.
Da Vinci Banquet Hall
Woodbridge
Configurable across a wide range of headcounts, from about fifty up to very large. Tell us which configuration you have booked, because the right booth position in the small setup is the wrong one in the full room.
What a Vaughan night actually looks like
Two patterns dominate here, and they want different things from a booth.
Large Italian and Portuguese banquet-hall weddings are the classic Vaughan booking. Big head counts, long programmes, a late dance floor, and a crowd that will genuinely queue. The open-air booth suits these because about a dozen people fit in one frame and whole tables come up together. What catches vendors out is the programme: speeches and traditions can take the booth out of action for half an hour at a time, and that comes out of your booked hours. Tell us roughly when the programme runs and we will shape the hours around it.
Corporate nights in the Concord and Highway 7 corridor are the other half of our calendar, particularly from late November. Those have a much wider arrival window than a wedding where everyone sits down at once, which is why most corporate bookings take three or four hours rather than two. Branding, green screen and load-in detail for those live on the Vaughan corporate page.
Woodbridge, Maple, Concord, Thornhill, Kleinburg
All Vaughan, all inside the same no-travel-fee zone, and all a short run from Applewood Crescent. Kleinburg is the one worth calling out separately: the village end of it, and the McMichael grounds above the Humber Valley, produce a very different wedding from a Highway 7 ballroom. Smaller, often outdoors for the ceremony, and far more likely to want the glam look than a full prop bar.
What it costs in Vaughan
The same as everywhere else. Packages start at $550 for two hours, $750 for three and $1,000 for four, staffed throughout with unlimited sessions and two prints per round. Glam and 360 are the same price as the open-air booth. Unlimited prints and extra waiting time are add-ons, and the numbers are on the pricing page. A $100 deposit holds the date.