Why the maid of honor should set this up before anyone travels
Bachelorette photos have a specific failure mode: volume and spread. One evening produces a few hundred pictures across the group; a weekend produces far more, and every one of them sits on the phone that took it. AirDropping reaches whoever happens to be standing next to you. The group chat compresses everything to mush and then buries it under three hundred messages by Sunday night, and the ones you actually wanted are somewhere above the dinner-check argument.
Privacy is the second half of it. A bachelorette is exactly the event where nobody wants a photo appearing publicly before the group has agreed to it, which rules out hashtags and reposted stories as the collection method. A gallery that opens only with a code flips the default: people shoot freely, because everyone in the room knows where it goes and who holds the key.
Setting it up takes under a minute in a browser. The maid of honor creates the event, drops the link in the chat on Friday morning, and prints the QR code on the itinerary for anyone whose phone is dead at the crucial moment. Everyone uploads as the weekend runs — no app, no account, a name typed the first time — and on Monday she opens her private host page and takes the whole thing down in one archive, ready to become whatever the bride gets at the wedding.