You are planning a single-use camera wedding.
A bag of cameras on the tables. One each. Develop them later. That is the UK plan. Single-use is the shop name for disposable. Same bag. Same wait. Same half-blank roll.
The rest is the part people forget to count. You collect the cameras at midnight. You take them in to be developed. You wait for the scans. Half the frames are thumbs and ceilings. A few cameras never come back. You still have no set you can send. The rest of the day lands in WhatsApp or iCloud, hundreds of mixed guest phone photos, if anyone sends them at all.
The part worth keeping is the honesty. A short roll. One take. A decision. Not the plastic. Not the chemist. 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 single-use cameras. You do not collect them at midnight. You do not wait on a chemist envelope. The film is already on the phone, and it waits.
This is not the one-roll note on a disposable camera wedding. That note is a disposable camera wedding, without the disposable cameras. If you were shopping the cameras themselves, there is a note on disposable cameras for a wedding, without the bag of cameras. If what you wanted was a digital disposable, the phone film without the plastic, there is a note on a digital disposable camera wedding, without the throwaways. It is not the instant camera itself. That note is an instant camera wedding, without the instant 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 bag of single-use cameras is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, Manchester, Brighton, and Reading.
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