You wrote the message three times.
Please send your photos. A line in the group chat. A card on the table. An Instagram story with a link. You sounded kind. You still end up chasing.
The morning after, you are in WhatsApp or iCloud asking everyone to send what they took. Hundreds of mixed guest phone photos landing in a chat. Every look, half of them blurred. A night you now have to sort.
Those pictures are wedding photos. The pain is the mess, and the chase that started with a polite ask.
What people ask for
Please send your photos. That is the sentence most couples write. Kind, and then you are the person who follows up. Half the room meant to. A few did. The rest are on a plane, or asleep, or sure they already sent them.
A shared album link. Google Photos, iCloud, a folder with your names on it. Posted on a story, printed on a card, dropped in the chat. Pictures arrive while dinner is still going. Names fall off. Anyone can look. You still open it at midnight.
AirDrop tonight. Fine for the four people standing still, on the same kind of phone. Useless for an uncle on the other system, a cousin already in a taxi.
The ask is always later. Later is the sofa. A camera roll that also has the supermarket. A message, however warm, cannot make a hundred people become the archive.
Ask them on the night
You do not need a better sentence. You need the pictures to go somewhere that is not a chat, while they are still being taken.
Polajoy is that ask.
You set the wedding up. Free. One join code. A card on the table, or a line in the invite. Guests open the app, type the code, and join with an account. After the wedding, everyone who attended can be sent the photos. iPhone and Android.
Each person shoots on a 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests hard-stop at 0. No second roll. If you nominate a photographer, the friend with the good eye, they can start another free 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests do not.
After each shot, ten seconds to Accept or Void. Timeout or a screenshot voids it. A void does not spend a frame. A short handwritten note is optional, up to 34 characters. Initials always go on the frame. Then it seals, and nobody sees it until the reveal you chose. Not even you.
One reveal. End of the night, the next morning, a week later. Then the shop is there if you want paper. Nothing auto-ships. Free downloads carry a small wordmark. £2.99 takes it off. Prints never have it.
You do not chase. You do not send the message again on Sunday. The film is already on the phone, and it waits.
If you want the method, albums and AirDrop and a sealed camera compared, there is a note on how to collect wedding photos from guests. If the problem was getting them at all, the morning-after chase, there is a note on how to get photos from wedding guests. If the job you named was upload, there is a note on how to have wedding guests upload photos. If what you wanted was the app itself, there is a note on a wedding guest photo app without the morning-after chat. If the thing you are trying not to do is a group chat, there is a note on wedding guest photos without WhatsApp.
Setup is free. Pay only if you want prints afterwards. The complete guide walks through looks, table cards, and the reveal. These notes are written by Richard Lovatt, with Kitty. The rest live with the other articles.
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