The photos your photographer won't take.
Your photographer gets the vows, the speeches and the first dance. A reusable film camera on every table gets everything else: your dad at 1am, the kitchen conspiracy, the cousins, the chaos. Flash on, in the dark, on real 35mm film.
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Dark venues were made for flash on film.
Summer weddings photograph themselves. Winter ones happen in candlelight, under fairy lights, in a barn at 11pm. That's exactly where phone photos turn to mush and exactly where a film flash does the thing it was built for: a hard, warm pop of light, grain in the shadows, faces that look like a photo from your parents' wedding album.
- Built-in flash, so the 1am photos exist
- Niras ISO 200 film: golden, warm, the way you imagine film photos look
- No screen to check, so guests take the photo and get back to the party
It sits between the glasses and the napkin.
Disposables, or CATCH.
Most couples have seen cameras on tables at a wedding. The question is which ones. Here's how the options actually stack up, photographer included, because you're keeping the photographer.
| CATCH kit | Disposable cameras | Photographer only | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Real 35mm film | Yes, Niras ISO 200 | No | Digital |
| Reusable | Yes, reload for the honeymoon | No, binned after one roll | — |
| Where the photos end up | One private gallery, emailed to you in 7 days | Whoever took the camera home | Your photographer, in 8–12 weeks |
| Phones away | Yes | Yes | No |
| Covers the 1am bit | Yes | Yes | Usually gone by then |
| Who develops it | We do, by hand, included | You do. £10–15 per camera at a chemist, if you can find one | — |
The CATCH kit sits alongside your photographer, not instead of them.
One box. Cameras, film, mailer. Nothing to assemble.
Each reusable CATCH camera comes in its own box with a roll of Niras ISO 200, a card for the table, and the prepaid mailer for afterwards. Load the film (it takes twenty seconds), put them out, that's the setup.
One camera per table is the sweet spot.
One camera covers about 10 guests if you want a few photos of everyone. Kits of 3, 6, 9 or 12 cameras, from £150, with Niras film, prepaid returns and hand development included.
Choose your kit →Guests actually use them. Here's why.
No screen, no faff
Point, press, wind. Nobody checks the photo, nobody retakes it, nobody's face is lit blue at your top table. The camera goes back on the table and the party carries on.
24 frames makes people choose
A phone takes 300 photos of the same thing. A roll of film makes your uncle pick his moment. That's why the shots come back looking like they matter.
One gallery, not sixty camera rolls
The rolls come back to us in the prepaid mailer. We develop by hand in Shoreditch, scan in high-res, and email you a single private gallery a week later. No chasing guests for photos.
"Softer, more honest, more us."
"We nearly bought disposables off Amazon. So glad we didn't. The CATCH cameras looked properly nice on the tables, guests picked them up without being asked, and we didn't have to traipse round Boots with twelve cameras afterwards. Gallery arrived while we were still on honeymoon."
"December wedding in a barn, basically candlelight. Our photographer left at ten. The film photos from midnight onwards are the ones we've framed. My dad on the dancefloor with his tie round his head. There is no other record of that."
"I was worried people would just use their phones anyway. Honestly the opposite, the cameras became a thing. Everyone wanted a go. Photos are grainy, flash-y, a bit out of focus and I love every one."
"Our photographer was totally fine with it. She said she gets the formal shots and the tables get the chaos. That's exactly what happened. We've reloaded two of the cameras for the honeymoon."
Tables. Party. Postbox. Gallery.
Questions couples ask
Will guests actually use them?
Yes, especially once the first few drinks are in. The cameras look good on a table and there's a small card explaining what to do. The trick is one per table, not one per room, and telling the best man to say something.
What if a camera goes missing?
It happens occasionally. The film is what matters, and most cameras turn up in a coat pocket a week later. We'd rather you reload it than worry about it.
How dark is too dark?
The flash handles any indoor venue. Candlelight, fairy lights, a barn at midnight: that's the look. Niras ISO 200 with the flash gives you that golden, warm look, the one you picture when you think of film photos.
Do we get prints?
You get a private online gallery of high-res scans within 7 days of us receiving the rolls. Download everything, print what you love. We don't post physical prints.
Our photographer might not like it.
Most are fine with it and many recommend it. They get the formal, well-lit shots. The tables get the moments nobody was staging. The two don't compete.
How far ahead should we order?
Kits ship in 48 hours but we make cameras in runs and winter is busy. If the wedding is this side of February, order now rather than the week before.
Can we keep the cameras?
They're yours. Reusable, reload with any 35mm film, or ours. A lot of couples take two on honeymoon.