✱your disposable camera

How many disposable cameras
for a wedding?

The usual answer is one camera per table of eight to ten guests, plus one or two for the bar and dance floor. For a 120-guest wedding, that's around 13 to 15 cameras.

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The quick calculation

Divide your guest count by eight to ten, then add two spares for the bar and the dance floor, where the best photos usually happen.

60guests → 7–9 cameras
100guests → 11–12
150guests → 17–19
200guests → 22–25

What that costs

Film disposables cost roughly €12–20 each, and developing with digital scans is another €10–15 per camera. For a 120-guest wedding with 14 cameras, expect around €300–500 all in — before you count the cameras that go home in a handbag.

What goes wrong

Each camera has about 27 shots shared by a whole table, and the first guest to pick it up usually uses most of them. Guests who'd never touch a table camera take none. Some cameras disappear; some come back full of the ceiling. And you wait one to three weeks for prints.

None of that means don't do it — the photos you do get are often the ones you treasure. It just helps to know.

Tips if you go with film

  1. Put one person on each table in charge of the camera.
  2. Add a small card with three prompts — "the first dance", "the oldest guest", "the best dressed".
  3. Have someone collect every camera before the residents' bar opens.
  4. Order developing with digital scans, so you can share them.

Or: one camera per guest, for less than two disposables

A digital disposable camera gives every guest their own roll on their own phone. Same rules — limited shots, no preview — but nothing to buy per table, nothing to lose, and the film develops at 10am the morning after. A 120-guest wedding is €64.99 in total. How it works.

How it works

  1. Create a film. Name it, set the shots per guest, choose when it develops.
  2. Share the QR or the link. Print the pack we generate, or just drop the link in the group chat.
  3. Guests scan. The camera opens in their browser. Nothing to install, no account.
  4. They shoot their roll. No preview, no delete. The counter shows what's left.
  5. The film develops when you chose. Everyone gets the gallery link at once.

Who it's for

If you're the couple

You put two real disposables on the tables too, and the phone one wins. Every guest uses it, nobody leaves it in a taxi, and the whole gallery is there the morning after instead of three weeks later in an envelope.

If you run a venue

The card goes in every wedding pack. It's the first thing couples ask about at the walk-through, it costs you nothing, and the venue looks like it thought of everything.

If you're the photographer

You cover the day; this covers the 1am. Guest shots don't compete with yours — they're the moments you're not in the room for.

If you're organising the hen

Twelve of you, one link in the group chat, nobody sees anything until Sunday morning. Watching the film develop over breakfast is the best bit of the weekend.

Questions people ask

How many disposable cameras do I need for 100 guests?

Around 11 or 12 — one per table of eight to ten, plus a couple for the bar and dance floor.

How much do disposable cameras for a wedding cost?

Roughly €12–20 per camera plus €10–15 each to develop with scans. For 100–150 guests, budget €250–500.

Should every guest get a disposable camera?

It's usually wasteful with film — many exposures go unused. A digital disposable camera gives every guest a roll without buying a camera each.

How long does developing take?

Typically one to three weeks. With a digital disposable camera, the film develops the morning after.

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