You want the disposable feel.
A short roll. One take. A phone film, not a pile of plastic cameras. That is the digital disposable camera wedding people mean. The honesty of those old throwaway cameras. None of the throwaways.
The real bag is different. You buy a pile of cameras. Half leave in a coat. The rest go in a bin. You still have no set you can send. The rest of the day dies in hundreds of mixed guest phone photos landing in a chat, if anyone sends them at all.
The part worth keeping is the constraint. Thirty frames. A decision. A short note. Prints later, when you want them. Not a landfill of plastic. Not a same-day peel on the dancefloor.
Polajoy is that constraint, on the phone already in a pocket.
You set the wedding up. Free. One event 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, or a time you pick. 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 buy a bag of cameras. You do not throw them away after. The film is already on the phone, and it waits.
This is not a bag of plastic cameras. That note is a disposable camera wedding, without the disposable cameras. It is not the instant camera itself. That note is an instant camera wedding, without the instant cameras. If the question was Polaroid versus a guest camera, the physical keep versus the peel, there is a note on wedding Polaroid vs a guest camera. If the camera you meant was Instax Mini, not a digital disposable, there is a note on an Instax wedding, without the Instax cameras.
It is not the peel-apart book on a table either. If that object is what you were planning, there is a note on a Polaroid guest book, without the Polaroids. You do not leave a camera on every cloth. If that object is the plan, there is a note on a wedding table camera guests will actually use.
Setup is free. Pay only if you want prints afterwards. Retroprints, a 12×12" layflat photo book, a wall frame with 16 or 25 apertures, thank-you cards. 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.
A digital disposable is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, and Brighton.
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