Wedding photos are a testimony of love and a memorial of marriage. However, when a marriage breaks down, wedding photos become a burden, even a harm. How to deal with unwanted wedding photos is a difficult problem faced by many divorced or broken up people. Some people choose to throw it away, some choose to shred it, and some people choose to burn it, but these methods are not thorough enough and not safe enough. Is there a way to make wedding photos disappear completely, so that people can physically and psychologically say goodbye to a relationship and a memory?
Liu Wei and his team are dedicated to providing wedding photo destruction services for these people. Their job is to use a shredder and a flame to turn wedding photos into dust and let the client end a relationship cleanly. They are known as "wedding photo destroyers", "love sea donors" and "wedding photo ferrymen", and their business is also considered a niche but meaningful entrepreneurship.
Liu Wei told reporters that their wedding photo destruction business started in March this year, in order to solve the pain points of their own life and that of friends, they found that many people do not know how to deal with unwanted wedding photos, whether in the city or in the countryside, the material and size of the wedding photos have brought difficulties to the processing, not to mention the risk of privacy leakage. So, they came up with the idea of using professional equipment to completely destroy the wedding photos, so that customers can send away a piece of the past with confidence.
Their destruction process goes like this: the customer contacts them to determine the weight and cost, and then packs the wedding photos and mails them to their factory in Langfang, Hebei Province. When they receive their wedding photos, they cover their faces with spray paint and then throw them into a shredder to shredd. Finally, they would send the debris to the power plant, where it would be incinerated at high temperatures, turning it into ashes. During the whole process, they will take photos and take records, and customers can also witness the destruction of wedding photos through surveillance, phone calls or on-site. They also offer wedding photo storage services to give customers a cooling-off period in case they regret it.
Liu Wei said that in nearly nine months, starting in March, they have destroyed nearly 450 sets of wedding photos. Their customers are mainly women, aged between 24 and 40 years old, most of them are divorced, and there are basically customers who come to destroy in addition to **, Hainan and Taiwan. Their charging standards are based on weight, the cheapest ** is 59 yuan, the most expensive is 219 yuan, but the most expensive ** will return 60 yuan of courier fees. Liu Wei said that their business is not profitable at the moment and is only breaking even, but they are optimistic about the market prospects of the wedding photo destruction business, which they believe is a process that needs to slowly cultivate users' privacy awareness and needs to be adhered to for a long time.
Liu Wei said that although their job is to destroy, they are sometimes used as a confidant by customers. They can feel the client's instant relief and entanglement, and they can also see the story behind the wedding photos. Some wedding photos have experienced "a thousand cuts", * the knife marks are numerous, and they have long been unrecognizable;In some wedding photos, the man's face was marked with a big cross, and there was even a set of wedding photos, in which the man was painted with a little Wangba;Some wedding photos are sent from the photo studio and have never been opened, as if the marriage has ended before it really begins. Liu Wei said that sometimes customers have special requirements for processing wedding photos, such as some customers will ask to spray all the ** green paint, and then crush it;Some customers ask to spray only themselves, keeping each other's faces;There are even customers who ask to spray themselves with black paint and red paint for each other. For these requirements of customers, Liu Wei and his team will never ask why, and will only do according to the customer's requirements.
Liu Wei said that they will also encounter some peaks and turns, such as one time, a young man was very eager to contact him, saying that he wanted to destroy a set of wedding photos, because the courier is usually delivered after the factory gets off work in the afternoon, so it is usually processed the next day, but the young man wants him to destroy it on the same day. Liu Wei said that fortunately, it was delayed until the next day, "The young man sent me a message and asked me to send the ** back, and he told me that his daughter-in-law was back." ”
Liu Wei said that although their work has been criticized by some people as "earning all kinds of money and lacking morality", they don't care about the outside world's opinion, they think they are doing the right thing, the right thing may be difficult, but the direction must be right. They feel that wedding photo destruction is definitely a good thing for customers who need it, and their service can at least provide customers with a more decent, safer and more effective way to dispose of wedding photos. They hope that through their efforts, more people can say goodbye to a relationship, a memory, and start a new life physically, both physically and psychologically.