For professional wedding photographers

You already book the weddings.
Now they can pay you twice.

Polajoy is the sealed guest camera your couples are starting to ask about. You keep your gallery, your prints and your entire workflow exactly as they are. Bring it to the couples you already book and you earn a share of everything that wedding orders, from every camera in the room.

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A wedding guest taking a photo on their phone, the shot visible on screen

First, what this does not do

Before anything else, because this is the question every professional asks and it deserves a straight answer at the top of the page.

  • You keep selling your own prints, your own way. Your gallery, your lab, your dashboard, your margins. None of it moves, and nothing here replaces it.
  • You edit the whole wedding in one pass, as always. One catalogue, one export, exactly the workflow you have now.
  • You choose what comes across. Push over the set you want the wedding to see and keep the rest where it lives. It does not have to be your full delivery, and it does not have to be any of it.
  • Nothing to run on the day. No app to hold, no kit to bring, no extra job while you are working.
  • No exclusivity and no tie-in. Nothing to sign, no fee, no minimum, and no obligation to bring us the next one.
A photographer editing a wedding on a laptop, with retroprints scattered beside it
The part worth reading twice

You earn on every photo taken that day. Not just yours.

A wedding runs on Polajoy and every camera in the room sells from the same gallery. Every guest's film. Every friend the couple nominated as a photographer. Your own delivery, if you put it there. All of it, one place, one checkout.

These are photographs you were never going to take. You cannot be at the top table and in the smoking area. You cannot shoot the speech and the four people crying at the back of the room at the same time. Nobody can.

Source one

Every guest

A 30-shot film each, from angles you were never standing in, all night.

Source two

Their photographers

The friends the couple nominates get their own films, and their shots sell too.

Source three

Your own delivery

Your work, on its own reveal night, ordered by the whole wedding rather than two people.

And here is the bit that should sting a little: right now those photos die on phones. Thousands of them, from every wedding you have ever shot, never printed, never looked at again after the Monday. On Polajoy they are seen, they are sold, and you take 10% of the lot.

The grandmother who will never email you for a print will happily order one from a gallery that is already open on her phone.

An older wedding guest smiling at wedding photos on her phone at the table

You are booked until ten. The party runs until two.

Those last four hours are the loudest, loosest, least posed part of the entire day, and nobody is being paid to photograph them. They happen on a hundred phones and are never looked at again after the Monday. You were never going to shoot them and you were never going to earn from them, which is exactly why this costs you nothing: it is revenue from the hours you do not work.

Guests dancing late at a wedding, shot from inside the crowd
the dancefloor at 1am
The couple walking through confetti, seen from inside the line throwing it
from inside the confetti line
The couple and a few guests outside a venue late at night
after you had packed up
Guests laughing across a reception table, seen from a seat at it
the table you never reached

And it runs the other way too. The couple stops asking you for the phone snaps, the group shots nobody organised and the hundred pictures their aunt took, because there is now somewhere for all of it to live that is not your inbox.

The problem with the way it works now

You deliver a beautiful gallery, the couple downloads it, and that is usually the last you hear. Most couples buy a handful of prints at best, nobody follows up, and the hundred other people who were there never buy anything at all, because nothing is ever offered to them.

One buyer

A traditional gallery sells to exactly two people. Everyone else at the wedding is never in the room.

No follow-up

Chasing print sales feels like selling, so most photographers quietly do not. The gallery link goes cold in a fortnight.

Fulfilment is a business

Running a print shop properly means labs, margins, packaging and support email. Most decide it is not worth it, and they are usually right.

What the wedding can buy

Printed and posted by a professional photo lab, direct. You never touch a parcel, a courier or a complaint, and your name is not on the invoice.

RetroprintsRetroprints
Framed printFramed prints
Wall gallery frameWall galleries
Layflat photo bookLayflat photo books
Collage printCollage prints
Thank you cardsThank-you cards

Two ways in

They stack. The same wedding can do both, and you can do the first without ever touching the second.

Works today

Give your couples your code

You talk to engaged couples every week and most of them have never heard of this. You get one short code. Hand it to the couples you book, they type it in when they set their wedding up, and you earn 10% of everything that wedding orders for the 45 days after the day itself, paid in cash by bank transfer.

No contact details to hand over, nothing to install, and no change to how you shoot or deliver.

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Deliver your own photos through it too

Optional, and entirely separate. The couple invites you by name, and when your edit is done you push across whichever frames you want, from the app or straight from a laptop. Your work is marked as yours and sealed like everything else.

Shoot or crop portrait for these. The retroprint frame has a near-square upright window, so a portrait or square frame drops straight in. A wide landscape still works, it just loses its sides to the centre crop, so it is worth keeping a few uprights in mind on the day if you know you are delivering here.

It opens on a reveal night you choose, and the whole wedding can then order prints of your photographs, not just the couple.

One code per wedding, and the first one in wins

A wedding pays one share, not several, so it carries one code. Whichever code the couple enters when they set their wedding up is the one that sticks, and anything typed after it is turned away. We do not split it, backdate it or move it later.

That matters because you are not the only person who might mention us to them. Their planner may have a code. The couple can apply to host in their own right and take the share themselves. None of those can stack with yours, so the practical advice is to give couples your code at booking, when you are the first supplier they have said yes to, rather than in the final month when everyone is talking to them.

How your code works

Nobody hands over anybody's contact details, we never approach your clients, and there is no waiting on us before a couple can start.

  1. You get your code

    One short form below and it appears on screen straight away. We email it to you as well so it is not lost when you close the tab. It is yours permanently, one code for every wedding you ever bring.

  2. You give it to the couples you book

    On your welcome guide, in your booking email, on a card in the box. However you already talk to them. Nothing changes about how you shoot, edit or deliver.

  3. They type it in when they set their wedding up

    There is a code box on the form. They enter it, see your studio's name come back so they know it worked, and that wedding is attributed to you from that moment. No approval step and no waiting.

  4. You get paid after the window

    The 45 days run from the wedding day. We check for refunds, confirm your total, and pay you by bank transfer.

The app is not on the app stores yet, so your first couples will be the ones getting in at the start. Take your code now and it is ready the day they set up.

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What the couple and their guests actually do

Worth knowing in one glance, because they will ask you and you should be able to answer it in a sentence.

1

Guests scan the card on their table, enter the code and sign in. Their photos stay theirs.

2

Everyone gets a 30-shot film. Ten seconds to keep each photo or bin it forever, and no retakes.

3

Every shot seals instantly. Nobody can look, not the guests, not the couple, not us, until the reveal.

4

It all opens at once. Everyone keeps their favourites and orders real prints of the ones they love.

The deal, plainly

10%

of everything a wedding on your code orders for 45 days, paid in cash by bank transfer. You are a business, so we pay you like one.

  • It costs you nothing. Free for you, free for the couple to set up. Money only changes hands when someone orders something they have already seen and chosen.
  • Every camera counts. The couple, the guests, the friends they nominated, and the family ordering from the shared gallery. All of it is in your total.
  • Counted net. Delivery, refunds and gift cards do not count. No funny business in either direction.
  • Your work stays yours. You keep ownership of anything you put in, and prints of your photographs are never marked or branded.
  • Nothing auto-ships. Nobody is ever charged for something they did not choose, so your name is only ever attached to a good experience.

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Free, no contract, nothing to install. Your code appears here the moment you submit, and we email it to you as well.

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We only contact you about your code and your earnings. Nothing else, and never your couples.