Wedding photo sharing without an app.
Half your guests will not download anything on your wedding day, and the other half will forget they did. Here is how couples collect every phone’s photos anyway — and why the answer is a link, not an app.
The group-chat graveyard
Every wedding produces two sets of photos: the photographer’s, which arrive in six weeks and are perfect, and the guests’, which are funnier, sweatier, and mostly die in group chats. Someone always promises to “make a shared album”. By the honeymoon, four people have joined and one of them is your mum.
Why apps fail at weddings
App-based sharing asks eighty people to install software during a party. Sign-ups, permissions, storage warnings — every extra step costs you uploaders. The couples who collect the most photos remove every step they can: a guest taps a link or scans a QR card, types the PIN, picks photos, done.
The QR card on every table
Put the code where the phones already are. A card by the centrepiece gets scanned between courses; a sign by the bar catches the evening crowd. On a Million Moments tile the uploads land live, and with Story or Legacy the slideshow on a spare screen lets guests watch their own shots appear, which keeps the phones coming out.
Check how long guests can add photos
Most services set a window, from a month to two years, and some charge to keep photos online for longer. Check it before you print the stationery. Here guests can add photos for 90 days to a year, by package. After that, you still see every photo and message in your account, and Story and Legacy include a full download, which you should make before hosting ends.