You are looking for a wedding gift for your child.
Mother of the bride. Father of the groom. The pair of you, staring at the same list as last year. A toaster. A mixer. Something that lives in a cupboard and never quite feels like it came from you.
You have already given them a day. What they still will not have is the night as their people saw it. The cousin who stayed too late. The friend who cried in the kitchen. You, in a chair, when you thought nobody was looking.
A wedding gift from the parents can be those guest photos. Not more stuff.
Polajoy is that gift. A guest camera on the phones already in pockets. You set the wedding up. Free. Guests join with an event code and an account, so after the wedding the whole set can be sent. iPhone and Android.
Each guest shoots on a 30-shot roll. Ordinary guests hard-stop at 0. No second roll. A gifted or nominated photographer, the friend with the good eye, 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 until the reveal they chose. Not even they see it first.
When the reveal arrives, the shop is there if they want paper. Nothing auto-ships. Free downloads carry a small wordmark. £2.99 takes it off. Prints never have it.
There is already a note for the person who wants to gift the wedding camera so they host, mothers, maids of honour, best men, the application as the present. There is a note that frames the present as a gift of photos, not another thing. There is one for the unique wedding gift of guest photos, not more stuff. This one is yours: parent, buying for your child, and tired of mixers.
If the morning after used to mean mixed guest phone photos in a chat, there is a note on wedding guest photos, without the WhatsApp pile.
Setup is free. Pay only if they 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 gift of guest photos is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. Names we have written up live on the directory, including London, Bristol, Manchester, and Brighton.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.