You searched for a disposable camera alternative.
Most of what comes back throws the short roll away. An unlimited phone album. A shared folder that fills up during dinner. The thing worth keeping was the limit. Thirty frames. Then it stops.
The bag of plastic cameras is the other problem. You buy them. 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, if anyone sends them at all.
A real alternative keeps the roll. A decision on each frame. A short note. Prints later, only if you want them. Not a landfill of plastic. Not a same-day peel on the dancefloor.
Polajoy is that alternative, 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 gift a roll to 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 swap them for an endless album. The film is already on the phone, and it waits.
This is not the note on running the disposable wedding itself. That note is a disposable camera wedding, without the disposable cameras. If you were still shopping the bag, there is a note on disposable cameras for a wedding, without the bag of cameras. If the search was a digital disposable, the phone film without the plastic, there is a note on a digital disposable camera wedding, without the throwaways. If the shop called them single-use cameras, the UK name for the same bag, there is a note on a single-use camera wedding, without the single-use cameras.
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 disposable camera alternative is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, and Brighton.
We have also written up names in Manchester, Edinburgh, and Bath.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.