Sparkler
Your day, through everyone else’s eyes.
A disposable camera at every seat, except it is the phone already in their pocket. Scan the code, get 36 shots, and see nothing until the whole roll develops the next morning. No app. No sign-up. Free.
Takes about a minute. Nothing to cancel afterwards.
A sparkler burns for about a minute, and everyone photographs it anyway. That’s the whole idea: not many pictures, the right ones.
Why guest photos usually go missing
The photographer leaves at ten
The part everyone talks about afterwards happens at half past midnight, and the only cameras left in the room are the ones in your guests' pockets.
Nobody downloads the app
An app in front of the camera is a sign-up screen in front of a wedding. Most guests simply will not, and the ones who try are stood in a corner on a venue's wifi waiting for an App Store page to load.
A hundred phones, one access point
This is the part nobody tests. Barns have thick walls, marquees have no signal at all, and everyone is uploading at once. The photographs that fail to send are gone, and the evening does not come round again.
It keeps working when the signal doesn’t.
Every other guest camera treats sending the photo as the act of taking it. If the upload fails — and in a stone barn on a Saturday night it will — the photograph never existed.
Ours writes the picture to the phone before it tries to send anything. The guest sees “got it” because we have got it. Then a queue delivers it in the background: when the signal comes back, when they walk past a window, when they reload the page an hour later, or in the taxi home. It survives dead batteries and closed tabs.
A wedding happens once. We built for the evening it goes wrong, not the demo where it goes right.
How it goes
Set it up in two questions
What the day is called and when it starts. We lay the rest of the evening out from there, and you can move any of it.
Print the table cards
The QR codes come out ready to print and cut up. Put one at each place, the way you would a name card.
Guests scan and shoot
The camera opens in their browser. 36 shots each, no app, no account, same on iPhone and Android.
It all develops at once
Nothing is visible to anybody — including you — until the time you picked. Then the whole night arrives in one roll, sorted into the parts of the evening they happened in.
It arrives in chapters, not a pile
Getting ready, the ceremony, drinks, dinner, speeches, dancing, last orders. Every photograph files itself by the moment it was taken, so nobody tags anything and the roll is actually worth scrolling through.
The originals are yours, and they stay
Full resolution, downloadable, with no expiry date on the gallery and no upgrade to see the pictures your own guests took.
Try it at the rehearsal dinner.
It is free and takes a minute, so there is no reason to find out on the day whether it works. Set one up, put it on a table, and watch the roll fill up.
Set up a camera