You searched for a wedding photo wall. A live slideshow. Guest photos on the big screen. A projector QR album.
What people mean is the photos guests take, up on a TV or a projector while dinner and dancing are still going.
Some of that search is a live feed in the room. A wall that fills as people scan. A slideshow on the dancefloor.
Then the category forks.
One kind of tool is a live wall. Guests scan a QR code. The photo shows up on the screen in the room, while the reception is still going. A live feed. A live wall. A live slideshow.
Polajoy is the other kind. Short sealed 30-shot rolls on the phones already in pockets. Nobody sees the photos before unlock, including the couple. The couple picks one reveal. Then paper if they want it. It is not a live slideshow app. It is not a live album. It is not a venue movie.
The download is deliberate. We are not a no-download browser camera. A scan that opens a camera in the browser and puts the shot on a screen is a different thing.
Guests download the free Polajoy app on iPhone and Android. They type the join code for the event 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, about 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.
The couple picks one of 12 film looks for everyone.
If the search was a guest photo reel, or a roll that develops into a movie, there is a note on a wedding highlight reel from guest photos, without the auto-cut movie. If the thing you wanted was the short roll that stops, there is a note on a wedding film roll that actually stops at thirty. 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 the search was a wedding photo app with no download, there is a note on why we still ask for one. If the search was the QR on the table card, there is a note on a wedding QR code for guest photos. If you wanted one album everyone can open, there is a note on a shared wedding album, without the midnight scroll. 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 photo wall is not the photographer of the day. Keep them. The guest camera does not replace the hired photographer. Names we have written up live on the directory, including Stafford, Dunstable, Hornchurch, Cannock, London, and Bristol.
We host a handful of weddings. Cash, or store credit and free products. Apply on the host page. We read every one.