Disposable Wedding Cameras: Christina Picardal’s Experience
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Given Christina's sister’s bad experience with disposable
wedding cameras, Christina used digital wedding cameras and ended-up with
over 500 great pictures and videos (Christina’s
Wedding Photo Sharing Website).
Read This If: You are thinking about buying disposable wedding cameras or
like the idea of getting pictures from your wedding guests.
In Christina's Words...
“We chose to use digital
wedding cameras because we loved the idea of our guests
snapping candid shots during our wedding, and we wanted to avoid the trouble my sister had with disposable wedding cameras.
Specifically, two years before
our wedding, my sister used disposable wedding cameras at her wedding and:
- Very Few People Used the Disposable Wedding Cameras Looking back I think this was because the cameras were disposable. I mean they
were cheap paper cameras sitting on the table. Maybe folks would think disposable
cameras were
neat and use them if it was 1995, but my sister’s wedding was
in 2005. The disposable cameras got treated “disposably.”
 Video: Christina on Digital Wedding Cameras vs. Disposables
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Developing Pictures from the Disposable Cameras was Expensive My sister paid $15 worth of development costs per camera. She had
20 disposable wedding cameras. This means she paid $350 to develop her
disposable wedding cameras whether or not the cameras actually had photos on
them or not. The worst part was that she only got about fifteen good pictures
after all of this (i.e. a lot of the pictures were way to over or under exposed to use). And when you combine this with the cost of the
cameras ($10 each...i.e. $200 on the 20 disposable wedding cameras) she paid a
total $550 for fifteen pictures. That’s $37 a picture…which is crazy. We didn’t
want to do this at our wedding.
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You Can't Share Prints from Disposable Wedding Cameras Easily
Once my sister had her fifteen good pictures, she had no way to share
them with any of us except for getting reprints made and physically mailing the
prints to us. She understandably didn’t have time for this, so nobody else got
to see these pictures.
To this day the pictures are still sitting in her closet.
Disposable Wedding Cameras are Old News
I am honestly
surprised that they even sell disposable wedding cameras anymore. It’s sort of
like selling cassette tapes. When I got to my sister’s wedding I actually
didn’t know how to use the disposable wedding cameras on my table since I
hadn’t seen one for about five years. The whole manually advancing the camera
and waiting for the flash totally lost me.
All this being said, while planning our wedding, we loved
the idea behind disposable wedding cameras. The issue was simply that we had
never seen disposable wedding cameras actually work. That is, we’d never
actually seen disposable wedding cameras get a lot of fun shots from wedding,
from the eyes of friends and family, that could be easily enjoyed and shared
after the wedding.
With all of this in mind, when we heard about CameraRenter’s digital wedding
cameras, we were super excited. And after our wedding we were even more excited
because the digital wedding cameras addressed each and every issue my sister
faced with disposable wedding cameras.
A Lot of People Used the Digital Wedding Cameras
And thought that the digital wedding cameras were unique, cool, and high-quality. They
also thought we were superstars for providing them with digital cameras to use
at our wedding. Many of them had never been given digital cameras to use at a
wedding before, so the digital cameras were a super affordable way to
help make our wedding standout.
We Didn’t Have to Pay for any Development Costs
We didn’t
have to pay anything for any of the pictures since we got them all on a CD in
the mail. Even better, our friends and family didn’t have to pay anything either
since they could download and print all of our wedding pictures right from our website
for free.
From what I’ve seen this is pretty remarkable when it comes to
wedding pictures. Most wedding photographers charge $8 to $50 per wedding
picture.
Sharing our Wedding Photos and Wedding Videos was Easy
Our
wedding picture and video sharing website made sharing the pictures from our
digital wedding cameras super easy. We just took the
email invitation
CameraRenter emailed us and forward it to our guest list. Some of our guests
even added additional photos from their own digital cameras to our website (for
free). Our website made it super easy to share our wedding photos and videos.
Video: How to Share the Photos and Videos from Digital Wedding Cameras
It was also very cool how many complements we got on the
digital wedding cameras and the website. It’s funny because the digital wedding
cameras and website were one of the least expensive parts of our wedding, but ended
up being one of the most popular.
Our digital wedding cameras definitely let us do what my
sister hoped disposable wedding cameras would do: get us a bunch of great
pictures from our guest that we could share easily and affordably.”
- Christina
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