Your wedding had two hundred cameras in the room.

A wedding is the rare event where almost every guest is holding a camera and almost none of those photos reach the couple. They sit in a group chat that scrolls away, or they never get sent at all, because sending forty full-resolution photos to someone is genuinely annoying. Six months later you remember there was a photo of your grandmother laughing during the speeches and you have no idea who took it.

One day, many rooms

Your photographer is one person, in one place, pointed in one direction. That is not a limitation of their skill, it is a limitation of physics. While they are shooting your first look, nobody is in the room where your uncles are arguing about the seating chart. While they are on the dance floor, nobody is outside where four of your friends are sitting on a wall talking about you.

Guests fill those rooms. Not better than your photographer, just elsewhere, and at the moments the schedule did not account for.

The hours after the photographer leaves

Most wedding coverage ends at a contracted hour. The reception does not. The last hour of a wedding, when the playlist gives up and the remaining thirty people are the ones who really love you, is almost always undocumented except on phones. That hour is worth collecting.

How it works on the day

You create a collection and get a QR code. It goes on the table cards, the order of service, the bar, a frame by the door. Guests point a phone at it and a web page opens. There is no app to install, no account to make, no password to remember at a wedding, which is the whole point.

They add the photos they took on their own phone, and each one appears in the gallery as it arrives. You can hide any photo at any time, and export every photo at full size while access is open.

You are not crowdsourcing your wedding album. You are keeping the parts of the day you were too busy getting married to see.

• A QR code, not an app

  Guests scan and upload from the browser. Nothing to install, which matters when half the room is over sixty.

• You decide what stays visible

  Photos appear as guests add them, and you can hide any of them. Turn on review in the settings and new uploads wait for you, so a bad angle of you eating never reaches the shared gallery.

• Photos only, for now

  Guests upload JPEG, PNG, WebP or AVIF photos of up to 500 MB each. Video clips and voice messages are not supported; guests can leave a written note in the guestbook instead.

• Full size, not chat-app copies

  Photos keep their full resolution, so the good ones are still printable. Location and camera details are removed from the stored copy. The whole collection downloads as a ZIP, in parts of up to 500 photos when it is large.

• Share it back

  Turn on guest viewing and everyone who came can see the day from every other angle, including the parts they missed.

• A window you choose

  Choose how long guests can upload and how long the gallery stays open. After access ends you have 30 days to extend it.

Questions people ask

Does this replace our wedding photographer?

No, and it is not trying to. A professional is there to compose, light and direct the pictures you will frame. This collects what the other two hundred people saw. They answer different questions. We wrote about the difference here.

Will older guests actually manage it?

Scanning a QR code opens a normal web page with an upload button. There is no sign-up and no app. That is deliberately the lowest-friction thing we could build, because a wedding is the worst possible place to ask someone to create an account.

Can guests see each other's photos?

By default, yes: guest viewing is on and photos appear as they are uploaded. Guest viewing is a setting you control, so switch it off if you would rather look through everything in private first. You can hide any photo, and guests never see a hidden one. To approve each photo before it appears, turn on review in the settings.

What happens to our files when access expires?

Access closing is not deletion. Viewing and downloads pause, and your photos stay in the private archive. For 30 days afterwards you can still buy an extension, but that grace period is a window to extend, not extra viewing time. So take your own copy while access is open.

How much space does a wedding need?

More than people expect, because modern phone photos are large. The photos alone from a 150-guest wedding can come to several gigabytes. Here is the arithmetic.

Keep reading

• Your photographer is not what this replacesThis is not a cheaper professional. It is a different thing entirely, and the distinction matters.
• The only photo of that momentSome things that happened at your event exist in exactly one photograph, taken by someone who does not know they have it.
• The photos your guests never sawYou were not the only person who missed most of it. Everyone was in the wrong room for something.

Other celebrations

• BirthdaysNo photographer, twenty-five phones, and the most-photographed forty seconds of the year.
• QuinceanerasThe portraits are planned. The eight hours afterwards are not.
• Baby showersTwo hours, twenty phones, and a guest of honour who saw none of it.
• GraduationsRow 34, a fixed stage, and classmates with the shot your family wanted.
• Company eventsParallel tracks, one photographer, and an optional review step before anything is shared.

For photographers

• Deliver the session. Let them choose.Private client galleries, selections, watermarked previews and a portfolio.