Is it video or audio?
Video, fifteen seconds. Guests can point the camera wherever they like.
Video guest book
Fifteen seconds, from everyone who came.
There is a reason people still watch their parents' wedding video. Somewhere in the middle, the videographer walks the room with the camera and asks everyone to say something to the couple. Most of it is nonsense. All of it is the part you keep.
That stopped happening when videographers stopped doing it. This brings it back, and every guest has the camera already.
They record it from the same card as everything else.
No handset to rent. No handset to return. A guest scans the code on the table, taps record, and talks for fifteen seconds. The limit is the point. Fifteen seconds is short enough that people say the thing instead of working up to it.
Forty of them, the next morning.
They come to you privately, not to the shared album, and they download with the photos. Your friends will be funny. Your uncle will go on too long and get cut off, which will be the best one. And the ones from your grandparents are the ones you will keep.
Against a rented phone.
An audio guest book is a lovely object and it costs $200 to $400 for the weekend. One guest at a time can use it, it lives wherever you put it, and somebody has to drive it back on Monday.
This is on every table, every guest can use it at once, it records video rather than audio, and it is included in a $49 event.
Try it on ten guests for nothing.
The free plan includes messages, photos and the hunt for up to 10 guests, kept 90 days.
Questions
What people ask about the messages.
Do we need to rent anything?
No. Guests use their own phones and there is nothing to return.
Can we download the messages?
Yes, at full quality, along with the photos.
What if a guest is shy?
Most of them start with the hunt and record a message later, once the room has warmed up. That is the usual pattern.
How long do we keep them?
A year, and hosting extends for $19.