RSVPix vs hiring a second photographer
A second shooter is a professional with a real camera who covers what the first one cannot. The photos will be better than anything a phone produces, and if the budget is there it is a good decision.
Where the difference actually is
It is the most expensive option on this list, and it still gives you one gallery for everyone rather than a set per guest. It also does not capture the tables nobody was covering. These are not alternatives so much as different layers — a second shooter takes more photos, RSVPix decides who ends up with which ones.
Side by side
| A second photographer | RSVPix | |
|---|---|---|
| Photo quality | Professional | Whatever guests’ phones produce |
| Cost | The largest on this list | Free to try, then $49 once |
| Coverage of the whole room | Better, not complete | Wherever guests are |
| Each guest gets their own photos | No | Yes |
| Takes the photos | Yes | No — it delivers them |
What RSVPix will not do
- Photos appear after they have been uploaded and processed, not while the event is still running.
- Face matching is not perfect. It can miss a guest, and it can occasionally return someone else’s photo inside the right gallery.
- It cannot make your guests participate. Adding photos needs no sign-in during the event, but a personal gallery is not effort-free: Your guests scan the QR code, enter an email address and accept the terms, collect a four-digit code from their inbox, give a first name, last name and country, allow the camera, wait for the on-screen guide to load, and take one selfie.
If reading that list makes a second photographer sound like the better fit for your event, it probably is. We would rather you worked that out now.
Or run one real event free and judge it on your own photos.
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Can I use both?
Yes, and plenty of events should. These approaches cover different halves of the same problem, and RSVPix costs nothing to run once alongside whatever you already planned.
What does RSVPix cost?
$0 to run one real event, then a one-off pass from $49 (A$79) sized by guest count. The one-off event passes are a single payment. They do not auto-renew, and each covers one event, with galleries that close 12 months after that event.
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