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Three honest routes to capturing a wedding or party, and each one wins in different situations. Here is the straight comparison with the numbers in it, so you can pick the right one. Even if it isn’t us.
From £170
Guest camera hire, all in — ten cameras £245. How the three compare, below.
Priced like for like: the disposables column includes developing and scanning, because scanning is the step that turns film into the files you actually get.
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| Guest camera hire | Disposable cameras (10 tables) | Professional videographer | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Typical cost | £245 for ten cameras, all in (£170 for five, £320 with camcorders too), and we collect the kit afterwards Build your own pack |
Cameras up front, then developing and scanning on top. Price your exact pack before committing — a bundled kit and a pay-per-roll lab are very different money | £1,514 UK average; typical range £500–£2,500 |
| What you get | Up to ~5,000 photos and/or hours of guest-shot video clips, all raw, all yours | ~270 photos maximum (27 exposures × 10), no video | A crafted 5–10 minute highlights film, professionally shot and edited |
| Point of view | Guests’, candid stills and video, no screens so nobody plays director | Guests’, candid but photo-only, and film quality is a lottery in low light | A professional outsider’s: beautiful, but posed moments dominate |
| Effort afterwards | None. A courier collects the kit from any address you choose; gallery live the day it reaches us | Collect every camera, post rolls to a lab, wait, pay per roll, scan | None. The videographer handles everything |
| Risk | Guest-shot footage is raw and imperfect by design. That is the charm, but it isn’t cinema | Blank or fogged rolls, lost cameras, blurry indoor shots | Cost; one perspective; often booked long in advance |
We no longer quote a price for ten disposables: what they cost depends entirely on which kit you buy and which lab you use, and any single figure we picked would flatter us.
You want a guaranteed, cinematic record of the key moments: vows, speeches, first dance, professionally framed and edited. Nothing else does that. If the film matters more than anything, spend the £1,514. Many couples run guest cameras alongside one for the moments the pro never sees.
It’s a small gathering, £40–£80 covers it, and a handful of grainy prints is the goal. Just budget the faff honestly: collecting the cameras at midnight, posting the rolls, and paying per-roll development for however many come back.
You want the whole day from the inside: stills and video, up to about 5,000 shots, no film to develop, no phones in the air, and everything back in one private gallery the day your kit lands with us. One case, one gallery. Packs from £170, posted anywhere in the UK.
Every pack is the whole cost. Delivery, our collection afterwards and the private gallery are inside it.
£170incl. delivery & collection
Five screen-free cameras, flash on each, one for every table.
£245incl. delivery & collection
Two camcorders doing the rounds: speeches, dancefloor, the bit at 1am.
£320incl. delivery & collection
Both kits, one booking. One gallery, stills and video from the same day.
£450incl. delivery & collection
Both kits, plus edited highlights cut from your guests’ clips.
Knocks and spills are on us — no charge for accidental damage or normal wear. Pay in full, or 30% now and the rest three weeks before. Pick your date when you press Book and we’ll tell you straight away; if it isn’t showing, ask us and we can often still make it.
Far cheaper, but they’re different things. The UK average for a professional wedding videographer is £1,514 (typical range £500–£2,500) and buys a crafted, guaranteed highlights film. Guest camera hire is £170 to £320 all in and buys the candid version of the day your guests saw. Plenty of couples book both.
They are cheap to buy and expensive in effort. Ten disposables gives you roughly 270 photos at most, no video, and a flash that gives up past the far side of a table — then you collect every camera at midnight, post the rolls to a lab, pay per roll and wait. Ten of ours is £245 all in for about 5,000 photos of capacity, a proper flash on every camera, a courier collection from any address you choose, and a private gallery live the day your kit lands back with us.
None. A courier collects the kit the day after your event, from any address you choose, and the private gallery follows. There’s no film to post to a lab and nothing to pay per roll.
When you want a guaranteed, cinematic record of the key moments: vows, speeches, first dance, professionally framed and edited. Nothing else does that. Many couples run guest cameras alongside one for the moments the pro never sees.
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The third option in the table above, photographed. Neither has a screen on the back, and neither needs developing — that is the whole difference from a disposable.
Point, press, flash, pass it on. About 500 photos each on a charge, so five of them hold far more than an evening will produce.
Tape look, pistol grip, one big record button. It gets passed round the tables and comes back with the speeches, the dancefloor and whatever happened at 1am.
“Every case is packed, charged and checked on my office table before it goes out. Email us and I’m who replies, usually the same day.”
The kit goes back with the courier from any address you like, and your gallery is in your inbox the day it reaches us. No rolls to post, nothing to pay per camera, nothing to chase.
Or message us with your date and we’ll tell you honestly which of the three suits it.