You searched for a wedding film roll. A film roll wedding. Film roll mode.
What people mean is a short roll on every phone, sealed until one reveal. It is not an endless live album, and it is not a bag of plastic cameras.
The limit is the point. Thirty frames, then it stops. Each frame is a decision. A short note can sit on it. The night waits until you choose to look.
Then the category forks.
A lot of film roll apps are a QR and a browser, with no download and no account. Sometimes film roll mode is only a shot limit on a live uploader. The pictures can still arrive while the speeches are going.
Polajoy is the other kind. A real 30-shot film, sealed. Accept or Void on each frame. A note on the frame. An account, so the set can be sent after the wedding.
The download is deliberate. We are not a no-download browser camera.
Guests download the free Polajoy app on iPhone and Android. They type an event code and join with an account. Two minutes once. Then it is just a camera.
Guests have accounts so after the wedding everyone who attended can be sent the photos. A page with no account has nobody to send the set to.
Each ordinary guest gets one 30-shot roll. Hard-stop at 0. No second roll. No paywall. 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. After Accept they still see the photo on the sign screen. A short handwritten note is optional, up to 34 characters. Initials always go on the frame. It seals on Send, then it is gone until unlock.
Nobody sees the photos before unlock, including the couple. The couple chooses one reveal. It can be the end of the night, the next morning, a week later, or a time after the event ends. The shop opens after that reveal, and only if you want paper. Nothing auto-ships. Free downloads carry a small wordmark. £2.99 takes it off. Prints never have it.
If the thing you wanted was the short roll without plastic throwaways, there is a note on a disposable camera alternative that keeps the short roll. 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 plan was still a bag of cameras, there is a note on a disposable camera wedding, without the disposable cameras.
If the search was the QR on the table card, there is a note on a wedding QR code for guest photos. If the search was a wedding photo app with no download, there is a note on why we still ask for one. If you wanted photos and a short note in one place, there is a note on a digital guest book that is actually photos. If you wanted the app itself, there is a note on a wedding guest photo app without the morning-after chat.
Setup is free. Pay only for the physical products you choose. 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 wedding film roll is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, Redcar, Bridlington, Chepstow, and Stirling.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.