I might do this and was going to put only one per table tbh, but I guess you could give one per person in lieu of favours

we are doing this got 20 cameras so one per table and loads near the dance floor with a little note saying please leave them on the table

we are going to do this also, have any of you lovley ladies seen any good offers on for some? x

IMO I wouldnt bother because of the cost.

You would have to pay for the cameras.
Then you have to pay to get the photos developed and to be honest you might get one or two good photos but is it worth money!?

Most people will have their own digital cameras or their phones.
So I dont know who would bother with the disposable cameras

PLUS - will some get lost, damaged.

But this is just my opinion.

Im going to ask people to save all the photo's on a disc and either pass them onto people i see often or post them to me!

Im going to take a spindle of disc's incase people dont have any at home!

We doing the same thing as u Steph, going to get blank discs and have designed packets for them to go in with a poem on. People can take their own pics during the day/eve then we can have a nose through all the pics & choose what we want and print those.
xxx

We were going to but with everyone having digital cameras these days we thought what was the point???
So instead i have brought a bunch of blank cd's which im going to leave a few on each table.
Ive wrote a poem with our names on asking ppl to download their pictures to it for us, which we are going to use as the cover and each cd has a sase with it so they can send it back to us when they are ready!


Oh and ive also decided to to start buying PROPS (silly hats, glasses, masks, scaffs etc) that im going to leave in a box so ppl can help themselves to so we get some funny pics too!

think i might now swap after reading this to the disks as at least, as you say, you only print the decent ones. I didnt think that half of them will have ppls fingers etc over the lense as they are too drunk to operate them and yet we will still have to pay for all the prints.

ditto hails.... :)

We've done this. We got them from ***********, and we get free developing. We've got two or three per table, as most people will have their own digital cameras anyway - they will probably just be filled with drunk people taking pictures of their b_u_m_s !!

we bought 10. one per table ( 5 tables ) Then leaving some out for the evening too.. You will find at a lot of weddings that you dont get them all back ( pathetic but it happens ) So i'm gonna keep a look out for any camera theives!

I can't think of anyone I know (both professionally and personally) who has actually bothered to keep the prints that came out of disposable cameras.

They usually end up lost, broken, dunked in a plate of dessert, or the images are just plain bad and not bad in a OMG that's so funny bad way.

As has been mentioned there is D&P cost associated with them too. Look at around somewhere in the £5 region just for developing, between £3 and £5 per camera itself and about 5p -10p per (bad quality, poor paper) print. So about £11 per camera - just to get the prints done. 10 cameras - £110 which you would be better spending on giving to your photographer and asking them to stay on and cover the reception.


HTH

Alex

I often wonder with the price of digital cameras coming down, and the cost of developing those disposable ones (and to be honest the pictures are usually pretty dreadful), it wouldn't be cheaper to buy a couple of cheap digital cameras to get passed around the place instead......

We are putting a camera on each table...it will be nice to get some natural shots of people x

my mate had them at hers last year and all pics turned out rubbish and thats with ppl taking pics without being drunk x

I was going to get the disposable cameras but after reading this thread i'm not too sure now. The c/d thing sounds good but i don't fancy having discs on my tables, i think they may look tacky. So, maybe i'll have them ready on the table where my postbox is so people can help themselves. I'll make a nice sign to put up so people don't think iIve lost the plot and put my home address in the envelope with the disc.

Yeah, thats what i'll do lol just talked myself into it hahaha xx xx

i think we'll still have the disposable cameras on the table.....my mum did this n had some fantastic shots,some that have really made the wedding album what it is...... were hoping to nominate 1 person from each table to keep an eye on things n make sure we dont get 2 many shots with the ''flippin the bird'' in em lol. x x x

good idea about the discs tho x x

We are going to the disposable cameras on the table and just hope they are all left behind. Its nice to have natural pics of everyone xx

I'm not bothering with them as in the day of digital most people we know have digital cameras and will upload their images to our website for us so we still get the natural shots from guests without the costs. It will be far better than having to pay for expensive disposable cameras and developing costs not to mention reprints in future.