FOR WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS
Your coverage ends at ten. The night does not.
Grain is the second layer under your professional work. Guests scan a QR code and capture photos, short video, voice notes and 20 second toasts all night. Everything stays sealed until the couple opens the gallery, auto enhanced, with your studio branding on the reveal. Your own teaser frames lead the reveal, your studio credit sits on the gallery, and your copyright stays embedded in your professional frames when they download.
The roll
Atelier Lumen Photography
GOLDEN HOUR
EVENING
THE PROBLEM
Every package has an end time. The couple's memory does not.
Your eight hours end after the first dance. Then comes the part the couple will talk about for years: the dance floor at midnight, the last toast, the taxi goodbyes. None of it is your job to shoot, but all of it ends up as a gap in their memory of the day, scattered across guest phones. Grain fills that gap without touching your work.
- Ceremony
- Cocktail hour
- Dinner
- First dance
- Midnight
Grain starts working the moment guests arrive and keeps going after you pack up.
HOW IT WORKS
Built to sit under your work, never beside it.
Step 1
Different product, different shelf
Guest phone snapshots and professional photography are not the same product and the couple knows it. Grain collects the candid guest layer: the angles from inside the party. Your album stays the centerpiece. Nothing in a sealed guest roll competes with a delivered gallery.
Guest roll
Step 2
Your brand on the second reveal
Weeks before your edited gallery is ready, the couple opens their Grain roll with every guest watching. Your studio name sits on that reveal. Every guest at every wedding sees who the photographer was, at the exact emotional peak of the morning after.
The roll
Atelier Lumen Photography
GOLDEN HOUR
EVENING
Step 3
Raw material for your reels
Short guest clips, voice notes and 20 second toasts become behind the scenes material for your social content, with the couple's permission. The guests generate B roll all night while you shoot the real work.
Your personal candid crew
A card of moments, in every guest's pocket
Bingo turns guests into your personal candid crew. Each guest gets a small card of reportage-adjacent moments to catch: the first look, a candid laugh, grandparents on the dancefloor. The angles you cannot be everywhere for at once. Each guest plays their own card live. The collective gallery stays sealed under your studio branding until the couple's reveal. The card adapts to the event type.
YOUR WORK, YOUR NAME, YOUR RIGHTS
Your work leads the reveal, and it stays yours.
Guest capture only works for you if the professional layer stays visible. Grain puts your frames first, your studio name on the gallery, and your copyright inside your own professional frames.
- 1
Your teasers open the gallery
Upload 5 to 10 of your own edited frames from the professional dashboard. They appear as a pinned hero strip at the top of the couple's revealed gallery, above the guest roll. The first thing every guest sees on reveal morning is your work, weeks before your full delivery is ready.
- 2
A studio credit on the gallery itself
Set your studio name and website once. A quiet credit line sits at the foot of the revealed gallery, linked to your site, seen by every guest who scrolls to the end. No badge, no clutter, just attribution where couples and their friends are already looking.
- 3
Copyright stays with your professional frames
Your own teaser frames are stamped with EXIF metadata before they leave Grain: Artist, Copyright and the event name, written into the file itself. They download in their own Professional folder, so your rights travel with the files that are actually yours.
- 4
Notify every guest when your full gallery goes live
When your curated gallery is ready, Grain can send a single, host-approved email to every guest who left an address. No chasing the couple for a forwarding list. No third-party mailouts. You deliver the link once; we handle the distribution.
Embedded in your frames
- Artist
- Atelier Lumen Photography
- Copyright
- (c) 2026 Atelier Lumen Photography
- ImageDescription
- Emma & Lucas
WHY GRAIN
A line item, not a competitor.
Package it and keep the margin
Photographers add Grain to their packages as a guest capture option at 100 to 200 euro. It costs a fraction of that on the professional plan. One line on your price list, pure margin, zero extra shooting time.
One plan across all your weddings
The professional plan covers every event you run with one subscription: your branding on every gallery, and a command center to manage each wedding from one place.
You stay in control of the frame
The guest facing QR card is neutral and unbranded, so it never clashes with the couple's stationery or your aesthetic. Your branding appears where it counts: on the revealed gallery.
Your own product, not someone else's
With white label branding you are not selling a third party app. The couple sees your studio name on the reveal. You sell your own premium add on, and no other photographer in your region offers it.
Do the math yourself
Grain is not a cost on your budget. It is a line on your price list that comes back every month.
Revenue
$450
per month
Grain cost
$129
per month
Your margin
$321
per month · $3,852 per year
From wedding 1 each month, every next wedding is pure margin.
Illustrative example. You decide what you charge your couples.
Currently running free pilot weddings with photographers in Belgium, France and the UK.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked
Does this cannibalize my album or print sales?
No. Guest snapshots and professional photography are different products at different quality levels, and couples buy them for different reasons. If anything, the guest roll makes the gap in quality visible and reminds the couple why they hired you.
Who owns the guest photos?
The couple owns their gallery. You arrange any content reuse, for example clips for your reels, directly with them, and Grain makes sharing simple once they agree.
How do I add Grain to my packages?
Most photographers list it as a guest capture add on at a fixed price, or include it in their top package as a differentiator. You run it from your professional dashboard, the couple never needs to set anything up.
What does it cost me per wedding?
Reverse the question: what does it earn you? The professional plan is a fixed monthly fee across all your events. Charge your couples 100 to 200 euro per wedding for guest capture, and from the first or second wedding of the month you are profitable, every next wedding is margin. Use the calculator above with your own numbers.
Open the earnings calculatorI have a high and low season. Can I pause my subscription?
Yes, self serve. Pause billing from your billing settings for one to six months, and pick back up when bookings return. While paused, all your galleries, reveals and studio branding stay live for your couples, you just cannot start new events. No cancellation, no data loss, and we remind you a week before it restarts.
Do guests need an app, and does it work at venues with bad wifi?
No app, everything runs in the browser from a QR scan. Capture is saved on the guest's phone and uploads when the connection returns, so weak venue wifi never loses a moment.
Do my images stay credited if guests download them?
Your own professional teaser frames are stamped with EXIF metadata before they download: Artist, Copyright with the year and your studio name, your website when you set one, and the event name in the image description. They come down in a separate Professional folder. Guest photos are not stamped with your copyright. The credit line on the gallery stays visible to anyone browsing online.
Can I show my own work inside the guest gallery?
Yes. Upload 5 to 10 edited teaser frames from your professional dashboard and they lead the couple's reveal as a pinned strip above the guest roll. It is the fastest teaser delivery you will ever do, and it sets the quality bar before the first phone shot appears.