10 Creative Ways to Use Disposable Cameras at Your Wedding

10 Creative Ways to Use Disposable Cameras at Your Wedding

Weddings are all about creating memories that last a lifetime, and what better way to capture those spontaneous, unscripted moments than with disposable cameras? The charm of film photography, combined with the excitement of not knowing how the photos will turn out until they're developed, adds a unique touch to any wedding celebration. Here are 10 creative ways to incorporate disposable cameras into your big day, ensuring that every laugh, tear, and dance move is captured from every angle.

1. Table Centerpieces

Place a disposable camera at the center of each table, encouraging guests to take photos of each other throughout the event. Not only does this serve as a great icebreaker, but it also ensures you get candid shots from the perspectives of your guests.

2. Photo Scavenger Hunt

Create a photo scavenger hunt list for your guests, with prompts like "capture a photo of someone laughing," "take a picture with someone you just met," or "snap a shot of the most creative dancer." It's a fun way to engage your guests and collect a wide variety of photos.

3. Ceremony Shots from Every Angle

Distribute disposable cameras among guests seated in different areas during the ceremony. This way, you can see your special moment through the eyes of your loved ones, capturing angles your professional photographer might miss.

4. Guestbook Alternative

Set up a photo guestbook station where guests can take a selfie with the disposable camera and then leave a message in a custom album. Later, you can develop the photos and add them next to their messages.

5. Pre-Wedding Festivities

Hand out disposable cameras during pre-wedding events, like the rehearsal dinner or a welcome cocktail hour. It's a great way to start documenting the wedding festivities early and include moments that might otherwise be overlooked.

6. The Kids' Table

Keep the younger guests entertained by placing disposable cameras at the kids' table. You'll be surprised at the unique and often humorous perspectives children can capture.

7. Wedding Party Adventures

Give each member of your wedding party a disposable camera to document their experiences throughout the day. From getting ready to the post-reception party, you'll get a personal look at your wedding from the people closest to you.

8. Departure Send-off

As you make your grand exit, have guests snap photos with disposable cameras. Whether it's a sparkler send-off or a traditional rice toss, these candid shots will be a treasured reminder of your send-off into married life.

9. Honeymoon Starters

Pack a couple of disposable cameras for your honeymoon and capture the beginning of your new adventure together. The simplicity of these cameras allows you to enjoy the moment without worrying about settings or battery life.

10. Thank You Cards

Use the developed photos from the disposable cameras to create personalized thank you cards. Selecting candid shots of your guests enjoying the celebration adds a personal touch that's sure to be appreciated.

Incorporating disposable cameras into your wedding is not only a nod to nostalgia but also a creative way to engage your guests and capture the essence of your celebration from multiple perspectives. As you look back on these photos, you'll cherish the raw, candid moments that a disposable camera can so perfectly encapsulate, reminding you of the joy and love that surrounded you on your special day.

Conclusion

There are a lot of great ways you can use disposable cameras to enhance your wedding day! Kodak and Fuji disposable cameras work great at weddings and you can shop a lot of great options on Amazon - Click Here to shop Amazon Now!

We also carry disposable cameras made in house with Kodak Cinema film, which through a lot of testing we have discovered produces some of the best results! Browse our Etsy Shop by clicking the link below!

Where Can I Buy Disposable Cameras for My Wedding

Disposable cameras can be a great idea to make your wedding and reception a fun and interactive event! Guests will love grabbing a camera and snapping moments all throughout your wedding. Wedding disposable cameras can help to keep your guests engaged when most people start to get bored. If you’d like to read more about whether or not you should get disposable cameras for your wedding, check out our Previous Blog Post Here!

Can I Buy Disposable Cameras for my Wedding in Stores?

Yes! You can pick-up disposable cameras in several stores. Walmart sells Fujifilm disposable cameras and Walgreens and CVS sell Kodak Funsavers and HD Powerflash cameras that you can pick-up. BestBuy also sells Fujifilm Quicksnap disposable cameras in most stores. Beyond these locations, it can be quite difficult to find disposable cameras in stores. And even worse, you’re not going to be able to get any sort of discount at any of these big box stores. Buying a lot of cameras at full retail can get very expensive very fast. It would definitely be a good idea to shop elsewhere for wedding disposable cameras or bulk disposable cameras.

Can I Buy Disposable Cameras in Bulk Online?

Yes! Buying disposable cameras for your wedding is easy when shopping online, if you know where to look. There are both good and bad disposable cameras out there and since there are lot more options when shopping online for disposable cameras, we are going to explore each site in a little more detail.

Buy Bulk Disposable Cameras on Amazon

Amazon is probably the first place most people look to purchase disposable cameras in bulk. While it’s the first place most people think of, it isn’t necessarily the best option. Higher prices and lower quality can be a problem when shopping on Amazon. But there are a big range of sizes and options on the wedding disposable camera packs which at least gives you the ability to find a wedding disposable camera pack that can fit your needs.

When you go to Amazon, simply search for Wedding Disposable Camera Packs. While shopping, it can be a little overwhelming to try and figure out the best deal. The easiest way to compare pricing is to try to find the price per exposure (aka picture). Some camera packs have 12 cameras and may be cheaper than a wedding disposable camera pack with 6 cameras, but what you might be missing is how many exposures (pictures) there are on each camera. Some cameras come with 27 exposures, some with 24, some with 17, some with 12 or less. Take the number of cameras in the pack and multiply it by the number exposures on each camera. Then divide the price by that number. So a 10 pack with 27 exposures (10x27=) has 270 pictures. If that pack is $150 when dived 150 by 270 (150/270=) $.55 per picture. The price per picture math is a little complicated but it helps you to evaluate the value that you’re getting.

Another thing to consider when shopping on Amazon for wedding disposable cameras is whether to buy new Kodak or Fujifilm cameras, new off-brand cameras from China, or reloaded cameras. The build quality and reliability on Kodak and Fujifilm disposable cameras is much higher than every other camera out there. Off-brand cameras from Alibaba/China are ok, but usually have issues with film scratches and less that stellar build quality. But these work relatively well and can save you quite a bit of money. The last type of disposable, the reloaded used bodies can be the absolute worst. These come wrapped in cardboard wrapped with really pretty decorative prints, but the decorative print hides the disaster underneath. Many of these are manufactured from rebuilt Fujifilm Quicksnap cameras. These cameras have plastic welds and are broken in the reloading process. But these companies that sell these use a lot of cardboard and electrical tape to hold the cameras together. These cameras are prone to failures and don’t hold up very well. These are usually the cheapest, but not always.

Besides considering price, read camera reviews and ask the seller questions, specifically if the camera bodies are new or repurposed and what kind of film is inside. You can find some really great wedding disposable cameras on Amazon, you just have to been careful while shopping!

Buy Wedding Disposable Cameras on eBay

Very similar to Amazon, eBay has a really big selection of Bulk Disposable Cameras for Weddings. Everything we mentioned about in talking about Amazon is true for eBay.

Buy Wedding Disposable Cameras on Etsy

Another great place to buy disposable cameras for your wedding is Etsy! The same benefits and warnings about buying cameras on Amazon can apply to Etsy as well, but on Etsy it’s usually easier to contact the seller and request custom packages or options. Ordering from Amazon will give you speed, but ordering from Etsy will give you a lot of options and better customer service.

We actually sell a lot of wedding packs on Etsy. From the selling side, we’ve had a very positive experience working with customers on Etsy. There are a lot of great sellers out there that can help you with you getting disposable cameras for your wedding. We advise using the same method of evaluating value by determining price per exposure (picture). You should also check to see if shipping is included or not, as not every Etsy seller has free shipping. Definitely include your shipping costs in the cost per exposure calculation to evaluate value.

Buy Wedding Disposable Cameras on Alibaba

And yes, you can buy disposable cameras in bulk on Alibaba. To be honest, most of the disposable cameras on Amazon and half of the ones on Etsy actually come from Alibaba. If have the time to wait for your cameras and don’t mind paying more for shipping, it can actually save you a lot of money. Many sellers on Alibaba allow for small minimum order quantities and you can even pick your colors and a few other options.

So we at Shutter Junkies also develop disposable cameras. We actually specialize in them and have developed thousands of disposable cameras from weddings. We get a lot of these cameras and here’s our best advice about them. Usually these camera bodies (the plastic shell of the camera) are ok. They hold up alright and while they do malfunction from time to time, they are ok. The lens on these cameras is very low quality, which causes your images to be a little less sharp/more blurry and there is more distortion at the edges of the picture. If you’re shooting color film, you’ll notice quite a bit more chromatic aberration when comparing images to Fuji QuickSnaps or Kodak FunSavers.

The biggest issue with these cameras is the film. Mostly, these cameras from Alibaba all come with 17 exposures and the film is what we call “bulk loaded”. Bulk loaded film is taken from larger rolls and spooled off into the cartridges by hand. We have seen a lot of these wedding cameras from Alibaba have some very scratched up film. Also, almost all of these cameras actually come with Kodak cinema film loaded instead of photographic film. The Chinese manufacturers have removed the RemJet layer (which probably is why they are so scratched) and then labeled them to be developed in C-41 chemicals. While it works, this film performs much better when developed in ECN-2 chemistry, as Kodak intended.

All that being said, getting wedding disposable bulk cameras from Alibaba is an acceptable source!

Buy Wedding Disposable Camera Packs Directly from Retailers

If you’re wondering where to buy disposable cameras for a wedding, there are a lot of great websites out there where you can buy them directly. Just gonna mention here that we sell wedding disposable cameras packs, both new Kodak packs and we build up our own cameras in black and white and color. Send us a message here if you’d like to find out more!

Here’s a list of websites where you can purchase disposable cameras for your wedding:

• Shutter Junkies - New Kodak cameras and Shutter Junkies disposables

• Custom Camera Collection - Rebuilt cameras with custom labels/covers

• Analog - New off brand camera bodies

• Film Wholesale - Rebuilt cameras with wedding themed labels/covers

Where can I buy cheap disposable cameras for my wedding?

Amazon, Custom Camera Collection, Shutter Junkies, and Etsy all have great cheap wedding disposable cameras. But with ‘cheap’ cameras, there are usually some level of sacrifices you have to accept to get a lower prices. Sometimes its few frames (17 or 12 instead of 27). Sometimes it’s really low quality film. Sometimes its crudely reassembled camera bodies. And sometimes it’s a combination of all of these. Check out what you’re getting, examine the price per frame, and ask for examples of photos from real world weddings. You can also check with a photo lab and see what they think of a certain brand. We, at Shutter Junkies, develop hundreds of disposable cameras every week and we can definitely tell you which cameras produce good images and which ones do not. Feel free to send us a message at info@shutterjunkies.org to ask any specific questions!

It is possible to get affordable AND good quality cameras! You just have to do a little comparison shopping and see who’s offering the best deals.

Disposable cameras are a great way to celebrate your wedding day!

We love disposable cameras and have seen hundreds of happy couples use them to make their wedding and receptions something to remember! Disposable cameras allow guests to become part of the day in a very special way and giving them a wedding table camera allows you to see your wedding from a lot of different perspectives! If you’re considering disposable cameras for your wedding, they’re a great investment and will add big element of fun for you and your friends and family!